Department of Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2013 Jul 23;8(7):e67332. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067332. Print 2013.
Research on practices to share and reuse data will inform the design of infrastructure to support data collection, management, and discovery in the long tail of science and technology. These are research domains in which data tend to be local in character, minimally structured, and minimally documented. We report on a ten-year study of the Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. We found that CENS researchers are willing to share their data, but few are asked to do so, and in only a few domain areas do their funders or journals require them to deposit data. Few repositories exist to accept data in CENS research areas.. Data sharing tends to occur only through interpersonal exchanges. CENS researchers obtain data from repositories, and occasionally from registries and individuals, to provide context, calibration, or other forms of background for their studies. Neither CENS researchers nor those who request access to CENS data appear to use external data for primary research questions or for replication of studies. CENS researchers are willing to share data if they receive credit and retain first rights to publish their results. Practices of releasing, sharing, and reusing of data in CENS reaffirm the gift culture of scholarship, in which goods are bartered between trusted colleagues rather than treated as commodities.
研究数据共享和再利用的实践将为支持科学技术长尾领域的数据收集、管理和发现的基础设施设计提供信息。这些是数据具有本地化特征、结构简单且记录很少的研究领域。我们报告了对嵌入式网络感知中心（CENS）的十年研究，CENS 是美国国家科学基金会科学技术中心。我们发现，CENS 研究人员愿意共享他们的数据，但很少有人被要求这样做，而且只有在少数几个领域，他们的资助者或期刊要求他们存放数据。很少有存储库可以接受 CENS 研究领域的数据。数据共享往往只通过人际交流进行。CENS 研究人员从存储库中获取数据，偶尔从注册中心和个人那里获取数据，为他们的研究提供背景、校准或其他形式的背景。无论是 CENS 研究人员还是请求访问 CENS 数据的人员，似乎都没有将外部数据用于主要研究问题或研究复制。如果 CENS 研究人员在发布、共享和再利用数据方面获得认可，并保留首次发布研究结果的权利，他们就愿意共享数据。CENS 数据的发布、共享和再利用实践证实了学术的馈赠文化，在这种文化中，商品在可信赖的同事之间进行交易，而不是被视为商品。
