Facilitating Sharing and Reuse of Geologic Samples: Recommendations from the National Academies
Abstract
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a consensus report "Open Science by Design" that contains numerous recommendations for harnessing today's information technologies to create a new open science ecosystem. The report discusses the financial, cultural, infrastructural, and other barriers to creating a system within which samples can be easily shared. It also discusses which policies, incentives, and training programs are needed in the research community to facilitate open access to samples. The challenges to academic research institutions and government agencies in creating an open ecosystem for samples are significantly greater than those for data, and insufficient infrastructure exists to manage working collections as compared with museum samples. There are substantial rewards for success should the community succeed in the goal of creating an open system for samples: improved rigor and reproducibility, more effective use of resources, the ability to address new questions, and broader participation in research.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.U12B..01N
- Keywords:
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- 0486 Soils/pedology;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields;
- GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS;
- 1912 Data management;
- preservation;
- rescue;
- INFORMATICS;
- 6620 Science policy;
- PUBLIC ISSUES