search

weecology / data-sharing-paper

Paper on data sharing in ecology for IEE special issue
46 stars 19 forks source link

Flags for data quality #87

Closed ethanwhite closed 11 years ago

ethanwhite commented 11 years ago

Karthik Ram (#83):

Trusting someone else's data is often very hard for downstream consumers (There is some interesting discussion in Zimmerman 2008). So if people can provide additional flags or indicators about the data quality (not QA), that could help lower the barrier to reuse. Obviously this is suggestion may not apply to certain types of data.

Zimmerman, A.S. (2008). New Knowledge from Old Data: The Role of Standards in the Sharing and Reuse of Ecological Data. Science, Technology & Human Values, 33, 631–652.

sarahsupp commented 11 years ago

This citation could fit under point #4 in the metadata section.

ethanwhite commented 11 years ago

Group discussion:

Do what Sarah said.