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While this may be true in some areas, I'd like to point out that a lot of data is already being shared amongst scientists. I know, for instance that in the fiel
by kleiba 13y ago
While this may be true in some areas, I'd like to point out that a lot of data is already being shared amongst scientists. I know, for instance that in the field of natural language processing, there is a large number of data collections (corpora) available -- although not all of them free of charge. But they are there and people use them. Competing research is performed using the same corpora to compare the different outcomes, and you want comparability so that the impact of your work becomes evident to reviewers.
Some of these corpora came out of research projects that explicitly stated the creation of such a shared resource as one of its goals. So sharing is a topic that's well on the community's agenda. While it's certainly possible to improve sharing even more, it's not true that scientists are not already doing it.
Of course, there might be different attitudes in different fields.
- Grieverheart 13y agoI think what you're saying might be true for "newer" sciences, but other fields, like physics, are stuck in older research models and only recently have been starting to warm up to the idea of sharing (but still very cautiously).
- return0 13y agoWhat you 're referring to is closer to materials, rather than the results of research.
- kleiba 13y agoThat's certainly true in a number of cases, but I also think that distinction can sometimes be hard to make. And the mere sharing of results (in the form of papers) is basically the bread and butter of research anyway.