Funding Agency
Research
Paper
Journal
What was found?
Often peer reviewed
Some description of
the research
Open access or pay
to access
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Paper
Data repository
Journal
What was found?
Often peer reviewed Can contain “raw”
unprocessed data
Can contain
analysed
(transformed) data
Collected from lab
equipment and/or
observations
Some description of
the research
Open access or pay
to access
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• Encourages scientific enquiry and debate
• Promotes innovation and potential new data uses
• Leads to new collaborations between data users and
data creators
• Maximises transparency and accountability
• Enables scrutiny of research findings
• Encourages the improvement and validation of research
methods
• Reduces the cost of duplicating data collection
• Increases the impact and visibility of research
• Provides credit to the researcher as a research output in
its own right
• Provides great resources for education and training
why share data?
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/planning-for-sharing/why-share-data
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Inconclusive or no
findings New research
informed by data
gathered in previous
experiment
Data published
anyway!
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“We’ve been told we need to
store and provide open access
to all our research data.
I have no idea how we’re going
to achieve this.”
— A professor at some University
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DEMO TIME! >
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WE'RE
HIRING!
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BUT WHAT ABOUT
THE FUTURE?
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IoT Lab
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“Just as a fish may be barely
aware of the medium in which it
lives and swims, so the
microstructure of empty space
could be far too complex for
unaided human brains.”
— Lord Rees, cosmologist and astrophysicist