Data archiving and sharing survey

Open data sharing improves the quality and reproducibility of scholarly research. Open data are defined as data that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed by anyone. Open data sharing democratizes science by making data more equitably available throughout the world regardless of funding or access to other resources necessary for generating cutting-edge data. For an interdisciplinary field like biological anthropology, data sharing is critical since one person cannot easily collect data across multiple domains. The goal of this paper is to encourage broader data sharing by exploring the state of data sharing in the field of biological anthropology. Our paper is divided into four parts: the first section describes the benefits, challenges, and emerging solutions to open data sharing; the second section presents the results of our data archiving and sharing survey that was completed by over 700 researchers; the third section presents personal experiences of data sharing by the auth...

开放数据共享可提升学术研究的质量与可重复性。开放数据被定义为可被任何人自由使用、复用与再分发的数据。开放数据共享让科研资源在全球范围内更公平地触达，不受限于科研经费或获取生成前沿数据所需其他资源的能力，由此实现科学研究的民主化。对于生物人类学（biological anthropology）这类跨学科领域而言，数据共享至关重要——单个研究者难以跨多个研究领域收集数据。本研究旨在通过调研生物人类学领域的数据共享现状，推动该领域更广泛的数据共享实践。本文共分为四个部分：第一部分阐述开放数据共享的优势、现存挑战与新兴解决方案；第二部分展示针对超700名研究者开展的数据存档与共享调研结果；第三部分呈现作者团队的个人数据共享经验……