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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eisenstein, Michael

Titel

In pursuit of data immortality

Ist Teil von

• Nature (London), 2022-04, Vol.604 (7904), p.207-208

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 2013, Timothy Vines, a data scientist then at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues tested the limits of this accessibility by requesting data from 516 studies published between 2 and 22 years earlier. [...]Canada's nationwide Living Data Project trains and supports junior scientists to work with labs that have precious archival data from ecology or environmental science but lack the skills or resources to preserve them adequately. The group has taken on more than 40 projects since 2020, salvaging one-of-a-kind research material, including 20 years of records of flora from Canada's Yukon tundra, and observations of bird populations from Tanzania's Serengeti region dating back to 1929. Some major funders - including the US National Institutes of Health and Wellcome in London - have formal requirements for data management and sharing, and a number of journals make repository use a precondition.