Data Sharing | Harvard Biomedical Data Management

"Research benefits:

• Find your own data years after you finish a project
• Enable others to replicate your work
• Enable others to conduct new analyses using your data

Incentives:

• Data citation is becoming a standard across publishers, and standardized data repositories generate a data citation when you deposit your data. Thus, sharing your data in a repository results in credit for your work.
• To create incentives for data sharing, some are developing and advocating for tools that track sharing of data and that formally credit investigators that share data:
  • Credit Data Generators for Data Reuse
  • Data Authorship as an Incentive to Data Sharing

How can I maximize my data's reuse?

• Share data and code in open trusted repositories
• Use persistent links from publication to data and code
• Citation to data and code should be a standard
• Document data, code, workflows, and computational environment
• Use open license for your code and data
• Make use of a data provenance tool..."