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The "Open Data" movement is in fact underway. But adaption will be even slower there. When you look at the mess of formats and proprietary tools trying to lock
by hwh 13y ago
The "Open Data" movement is in fact underway. But adaption will be even slower there. When you look at the mess of formats and proprietary tools trying to lock you in in science, it becomes clear why that is. And there's a tendency in science to come up with ridiculously complex incompatible data models. First because Of the academic virtue of understanding it and second because nobody wants to fit a study to a data model but rather the other way around.
- dnautics 13y agothis sort of open data the poster one above suggested will always be problematic because the temptation will be to do meta-studies where you cross-compare datasets from experiments that 'look alike' while stripping context. It plays to a 'science is objective' fetishism, when in reality context is always subjective and context matters, deeply. Presenting data as separate units in a publication serves the purpose of requiring actual cogitation and consideration before using the data. In a sense, all data are proprietary, and attempts to de-proprietarization of it is a mistaken endeavor. This is not to say that we shouldn't try to reproduce results, but we should be careful to acknowledge that the context is always different.