SCAR Data Management and

PolicyAnton Van de Putte & Bruno Danis

APECS Workshop 14 July 2012

SCAR-MarBIN / AntaBIFRoyal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences

Overview

•Data concepts & discussion Types of data

Antarctic Treaty

Fate of data

Who’s data is it anyhow?

•The Antarctic data ecosystem SCADM

GCMD/AMD

SOOS

biodiversity.aq

Types of ‘Data’

•Data

• values of qualitative or quantitative variables

• Field data / experimental data

•Metadata

• Description of a dataset

Antarctic Treaty

« In order to promote international cooperation in scientific investigation in Antarctica, […]

, the Contracting Parties agree that, to the greatest extent feasible and practicable:

[…]Scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available. »

What? share my precious data?

Reasons for not publishing data

Reasons for not publishing data

• concerns about patient privacy/endangered species

• concerns about future publishing opportunities

• desire to retain exclusive rights to data that had taken many years to produce

• the amount of effort involved in accessing and sharing datasets

• Time in publication process:

• 90% scientists should freely share data with other scientists after publication

• 30.5% scientists should share data and materials before publication.

Tenopir C, Allard S, Douglass K, Aydinoglu AU, Wu L, et al. (2011) Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21101. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021101 AND REFERENCES HERE-IN

What happens with (meta)data?

Long tail of dark data

Advantages of data publication

Advantages of data publication

• re-analysis of data helps verify results data, which is a key part of the scientific process;

• different interpretations or approaches to existing data contribute to scientific progress –especially in an interdisciplinary setting;

• well-managed, long-term preservation helps retain data integrity;

• when data is available, (re-)collection of data is minimized; thus, use of resources is optimized;

• data availability provides safeguards against misconduct related to data fabrication and falsification;

• replication studies serve as training tools for new generations of researcher

Tenopir C, Allard S, Douglass K, Aydinoglu AU, Wu L, et al. (2011) Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21101. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021101

It’s becoming mandatory

• Genbank• New NSF policy (2011)

Who’s data is it anyhow?On Scientist, data and data access

SCADMStanding Committee on Antarctic Data Management

www.scadm.scar.org

SCADM• Members of SC-ADM are usually managers of the

National Antarctic Data Centers or a relevant national contact.

• Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom…..

• Making Antarctic Data

• open

• linked

• useful

• Interoperable

• safe

GCMDAMD

Global Change Master directory & Antarctic Master Directorygcmd.nasa.gov

GCMD• an extensive directory of descriptive and locational

information about data sets and services relevant to global change research.

• over 30,000 of these metadata descriptions of datasets, data services and ancillary descriptions from numerous government agencies, research institutions, archives and universities worldwide.

• The GCMD contains descriptions of data sets covering all disciplines that produce and use data to help us understand our changing planet.

ADM• The central directory system containing all Antarctic data set

descriptions gathered by NADCs.

• Facilitate access to data

• Maximize the use of data

• Disseminate knowledge about Antarctic scientific programs

• Avoid duplication of research and data collection

• Improve efficiency of Antarctic scientific data management

• Facilitate new research through access to existing Antarctic scientific data

• Provide a tool for support and decision making for Antarctic operators and scientists

• Improve cooperation and interoperability between disciplines and Treaty nations

• Allow better oversight of national programs

SOOSSouthern Ocean Observation system

www.soos.aq

The Southern

Ocean Observing

SystemLouise Newman, Mike Meredith, Oscar Schofield

On behalf of the SOOS community

BIODIVERSITY.AQwww.biodiversity.aqdata.biodiversity.aqipt.biodiversity.aqafg.biodiversity.aq

data.biodiversity.aqAccess to Antarctic Biodiversity data

data.biodiversity.aq

data. biodiversity.aq

Data publication tools

ipt.biodiversity.aqIntegrated Publishing Toolkit

standardize and clean your data

manage primary biodiversity data

manage associated metadata

choose collaborators

generate and submit a Data Paper

push data and metadata to Information Systems

Data flowYour data

standardize

DwC-A

upload publish

IPT ANTABIF

publish

Data Paper

Data PaperMetadata document

Reward data publishing

The Data Paper concept

•A scholarly journal publication whose primary purpose is to describe a dataset or group of datasets, rather than to report a research investigation.

•Benefits of the Data Paper

–Scholarly credit to Data Publishers

–Describe the data in structured human readable form

–Bring the existence of the data to the attention of the scholarly community

Rewarding data publication:

ipt.biodiversity.aqAnton Van de Putte

Royal Belgian Institute For Natural Sciences

SCAR OSC

16.00, 18 July 2012

Reasons for not publishing data

• concerns about patient privacy/endangered species

• concerns about future publishing opportunities

• desire to retain exclusive rights to data that had taken many years to produce

• the amount of effort involved in accessing and sharing datasets

• Time in publication process:

• 90% scientists should freely share data with other scientists after publication

• 30.5% scientists should share data and materials before publication.

Tenopir C, Allard S, Douglass K, Aydinoglu AU, Wu L, et al. (2011) Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21101. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021101 AND REFERENCES HERE-IN

APECS BeNeLux• Thursday 11 October 2012

• Presentations by young scientists and invited• keynote speakers:

• Dr. José Xavier, marine biologist and Martha T. Muse (2011) winner

• Dr. Frank Pattyn, glaciologist and ice-sheet modeller

• Dr. Pete Convey, terrestrial ecologist

• Friday 12 October 2012• 4 workshops led by panels of experts:

• Data management• Talking to the media• Presentation skills (poster and oral)• Writing proposals

• https://sites.google.com/site/apecsbelgium/