Three interns at the Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE), a US government-funded agency, are conducting research into data re-use and citation practices in the fields of ecology and evolution.
“Combined, we hope they will tell a story of data attribution behaviour across time, subdiscipline, journal, funder, datatype, and repository. We anticipate a variety of useful results:
- estimates of the extent of data sharing and reuse in the peer-reviewed literature in Ecology and Evolution.
- identified areas of data citation best practice, as well as areas with practice that would benefit from best-practice initiatives
- methods for identifying data reuse, today, without waiting for culture change and new practices to be established
- a baseline of behaviour for measuring future change”
The interns are blogging about their projects.
(hat tip: Tim Sherratt)
