Data sharing and opening up research

Strengthening and opening up health research by sharing our raw data.

The first presenter, Professor Mariana Mazzucato (University of Sussex, UK), spoke about EU innovation policy in relation to risk taking and obtaining the return, and she challenged the common, but false, assumption that the public sector has a limited role in economic growth and innovation. The second presenter, technology writer Glyn Moody, focused on equitable licensing, open-source research...

Investigation of Sharing and Reuse of Research Data among Researchers

Purpose: Sharing research data leads to the reusing that data. The purpose   is to describe the status of sharing and reusing research data amongst researchers. This examines the attitude, experience and barriers in reusing research data. Methodology: Applied quantitative survey method was used. Population  was 154 participants all faculty members of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University. Instrum...

Opening up: open access publishing, data sharing, and how they can influence your neuroscience career.

Opening and Linking Agricultural Research Data

A Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group has formed around a community of scientists and researchers who wish to make agricultural data, information, and knowledge more accessible. The objective of the Agricultural Data Interest Group is to get together active representatives of the major international institutions that work on agricultural research and innovation worldwide, in order to ad...

Opening up Government Data while Maintaining Data Privacy

In this paper, we describe a UK approach to opening up microdata collected by government with examples of actual use-cases of anonymising datasets. We describe briefly the reasoning behind the Open Data movement and the challenges faced in trying to release data openly in practice. Several case studies are provided including that of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) public use ...