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A repository for the 10 simple rules data sharing paper to be submitted to PLoS Comp Biology
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Reviewer 3 Comments #128

Closed emhart closed 8 years ago

emhart commented 8 years ago

Reviewer #3: This manuscript discusses ten simple rules for digital data storage. The ten rules provide simple guidelines for how researchers across a variety of disciplines can store their data for long-term access and ensure that the data are usable by others in the future. Compared with other "ten Simple Rules" papers on scientific data management and curation, this manuscript further addresses another facet of data, longer term storage best practices. The manuscript represents the collaboration among co-authors from a wide variety of academic backgrounds, who are all part of the Software Carpentry project.

The manuscript could benefit from addressing specific needs for the storage of biological and biomedical data to be more in scope with the main themes of the journal.

emhart commented 8 years ago

After some thought I've come down on the side that we shouldn't make any changes to this. I'm of the opinion that very specific advice might lessen the value of the paper. What do others think? Do folks have other ideas / thoughts about this?

jhollist commented 8 years ago

I agree. We can respond to the reviewer and point to the last sentence of the Intro. And something along the lines of:

Since this paper represents the experience and views of a diverse group of authors, we have deliberately chosen to not make very specific recommendations for a given discipline. Some of are examples are outside of the biological sciences; however, the rules we provide are very applicable to biology as well as other fields. Further, we feel that very specific advice could lessen the value of the paper.

Or something like that...

naupaka commented 8 years ago

I think we could add something like @jhollist's suggestion to the response to reviewers and also add in a few more things about dealing with sequence data in a few places (see my comment on #138).