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They should make data publicly available and available for replication anyway. That goes for all data collected on NSF, NIH, and other government funding source
by hughw 10y ago
They should make data publicly available and available for replication anyway. That goes for all data collected on NSF, NIH, and other government funding sources.
- fusiongyro 10y agoAs an employee of the NRAO, I can tell you almost everything collected is publicly available. We do respect a proprietary period of one year, during which only the principal investigator's team can access the data, but after that those observations become public. Our internal storage cluster holds around half a petabyte. If anybody wanted to, they could certainly mirror it, but since we're talking about radio astronomy data here it's not likely to be interesting to anybody but a radio astronomer. You can of course take a CASA tutorial and learn how to reduce that data yourself! To the best of my knowledge, this is general policy for the NSF and other NSF-funded institutions have the same charge. Archive development is a big topic for all scientific institutions. It's actually a fairly significant part of my job.
- saboot 10y agoAll for making publicly funded research more accessible. Also, if impediments on continuing climate research are put in place, at least some nonprofit privately funded grants could continue what they can.