Freeing scientific data with CC0

Karen CranstonNational Evolutionary Synthesis Center

(NESCent)

@kcranstnhttp://www.slideshare.net/kcranstn

s m a i s m r m i l m e p o e t a l e u m i b u n e n u g t t a u i r a s

Public domain: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

new methods

labworkfieldwork

data synthesis

meta-analysis

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CC-BY-SA: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Georgy90

HowLong tail of scientific data

http://www.slideshare.net/pbheidorn/

Science projects and initiatives

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eLong tail of scientific data

GenBank (sequences)PDB (protein sequences)

http://datadryad.org

Why CC0?

● Attribution = cultural norm● Data copyrightable?● Warm fuzzy open science feelings

Easy to shareEasy to re-useEasy to remix

Joint Data Archiving Policy: 31 partner journals

Piwowar (2011) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018657

http://evolution.berkeley.edu

Data Reuse and the Open Data Citation Advantage: Piwowar, Carlson and Visionhttps://github.com/hpiwowar/citation11k/blob/master/analysis/stats.md

Data available = higher citations

http://datadryad.orghttp://nescent.org

Thanks to Todd Vision (Dryad) @tjvisionHeather Piwowar (ImpactStory) @researchremix