From 3a19c810bac8a5831985c4d4b5788fc3e60a8857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ethan White Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 06:26:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Adding a brief description of the current idea for the ms --- ideas.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ideas.md diff --git a/ideas.md b/ideas.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5bb7af --- /dev/null +++ b/ideas.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +We have been invited to contribute to a special section of Ideas in Ecology and Evolution on Data Sharing. + +> Forthcoming Special Issue: Data sharing in Ecology and Evolution. +> This issue, edited by Karthik Ram, will explore the changing attitudes towards data sharing in ecology and evolution, +> and the implications of rapid data sharing on the impact of research, reproducibility, +> and potential for fostering novel synthesis. + +My currently poorly formed idea for this paper is to talk about the importance of thinking about data users, +as well as data providers in the discussions, culture, and approaches of data sharing. +In my experience we spend a lot of time thinking about making it easy for folks to make data quickly and easily available, +which is absolutely great, but not a lot of time thinking about making it quick and easy for folks to use the data. +There are some inherent tradeoffs here and my thought was that a discussion of those tradeoffs and the value and approach +of making that data not only open, but useable, +would provide some value to the community by helping to maximize what is made with the data that is shared. + +This could be captured in something like "Ten simple things you can do to make it easy to reuse your data" \ No newline at end of file