Flood of data at universities: researchers need to learn parts » Soaar

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-02-27

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"There are good arguments as to why researchers should disclose raw data. The German Research Foundation (DFG) sees this as a part of good scientific practice. In its revised and updated in July last year guidelines as it is said: 'Primary data should be stored on durable form in the institution where they originated, for ten years as the basis for publications.' This university could data tampering and counterfeiting arm. For as Dr. Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh has found in a 2009 study, after almost two percent of all scientists have already turned in their data to tweak the result. Revealing himself such a fraud can be just only if the data is backed up and are centrally stored in the universities. However, the costs. As an 'ambitious goal' means the Conference of University Rectors in their mid-May published recommendations for good scientific practice because even the DFG proposal for a ten-year data storage. The universities must acquire electronic data storage. What a secure storage costs, is difficult to quantify. As a rule of thumb, about ten percent of research expenditure incurred for the data backup. Dr. Stefan Winkler-Nees by the DFG expects that it may be in practice, but often much cheaper, rule of thumb or not. And anyway: Winkler-Nees recommends you do not see the nursing all of the data sets as a cost factor Рbut as a pound, can proliferate with the researchers and universities. The open data access needs rules, just like Open Access Р'otherwise it is not practical,' said Prof. Dr. J̦rg Hacker, president of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, in an interview. But open data not only costs money, but can also help to save. Future would no longer made, for example, so many measurements of pure ignorance twice. But first, scientists need to be convinced. The pressure of competition for reputation and research money is great. Since no one will like to let you look at the cards and possibly even help with other hard material to unearned fame. Becoming a glass of researchers, which is at first sight no tantalizing prospect. Therefore, some initiatives, the scientists try to pack in her honor. How to do this demonstrates Pangaea (Data Publisher for Earth and Environmental Science), a pioneer project in the Open Data area. About 20 years ago, Dr. Michael Diepenbroek, marine geologist from the University of Bremen, and Dr. Hannes Grobe from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, started to build the data library for geoscientists and environmental scientists. Meanwhile Pangaea holds a treasure of 350 000 research datasets that are stored on the server. This is around six billion individual measurements. The path to the treasure trove of data via a website that looks like the Google search engine: Spartan knows the surface, the cursor is blinking in an input slot in the middle of the page. Who typing, for example, CO2, gets more than 10 000 hits from all corners of the world: Current air quality tests from Antarctica or water measurements of a research vessel around the Faroe Islands, which date back to the year 1968. With one click, the data can be downloaded and evaluated according to their own questions. Get additional information nagellack weiss ..."

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Date tagged:

02/27/2014, 09:50

Date published:

02/27/2014, 04:50