Abstract

Media Summary Imagine that you are presented with a crowded attic full of boxes of family photos and asked to assemble an accurate photographic record of some relative’s life. Most would find such a task extremely difficult. Researchers face similar challenges when attempting to comply with the data-sharing mandates that funding agencies and journals are increasingly enforcing. As they prepare a publication, they seek to assemble the data on which their results are based, but often find that these data are hard to identify, being distributed over different storage systems and labeled in ways that made sense when data was saved, but that convey little information today. Thus the data that they ultimately share are often incomplete or even inaccurate. As scientific progress depends on the ability to reproduce published research results, this situation is more than unfortunate. We suggest that this gap between intent …

Metadata

publication

Harvard data science review 4 (3), 2022

year

2022

publication date

2022/7/28

authors

William Dempsey, Ian Foster, Scott Fraser, Carl Kesselman

link

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9410569/

resource_link

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9410569/

journal

Harvard data science review

volume

4

issue

3

pages

10.1162/99608f92. 44d21b86