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Oct 11, 2010 07:10 PM | Luis Ibanez
Scientific Data Sharing
http://scientificdatasharing.com/about/
ABOUT THE DATA SHARING PROJECT
While many data sharing programs exist worldwide, widespread sharing of raw data has not yet won across-the-board acceptance in the scientific community, and the very existence of all these databases makes the approach fractured at best.
The Data Sharing Project, launched last year by University of California-San Francisco Professor Michael Weiner, has two goals: One is to make widespread raw data sharing a reality — initially in the realm of medicine — through creation of a repository system accessible to all researchers; the second goal is to foster broad scientific support for this move and its adoption in other fields of research.
HISTORY
While there is a long-established tradition in the scientific realm of collaborative efforts to enhance knowledge, this has generally been limited to the sharing of pre-prints. There is considerable resistance among many scientists to full-scale sharing of all data, both raw and analyzed, due to its cost, time requirements and researchers’ fears they will be denied proper credit and financial gain for their findings.
This resistance remains although several highly regarded programs, including the Human Genome Project, have shown that such sharing can produce rapid scientific breakthroughs that otherwise would not have occurred.
Examine, for instance, a brief description of success provided by the Genome project, which shared its raw data as soon as it was produced:
“Technology and resources promoted by the Human Genome Project are starting to have profound impacts on biomedical research and promise to revolutionize the wider spectrum of biological research and clinical medicine. Increasingly detailed genome maps have aided researchers seeking genes associated with dozens of genetic conditions, including myotonic dystrophy, fragile X syndrome, neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2, inherited colon cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and familial breast cancer.” (Human Genome Project: About The HGP)
With major projects demonstrating the tremendous scientific breakthroughs made possible by data sharing and with the decline of technological barriers impeding such efforts, the time has come to work to achieve widespread sharing of raw data worldwide.
The Data Sharing Project proposes to further this goal initially in the field of medicine by working to create a raw data sharing program that will serve as a model to other disciplines attempting to make their own way in this arena.
The Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE) — together with the University of California-San Francisco and support from the Michael J. Fox Foundation — is now in the process of canvassing the scientific community to analyze the best possible data sharing program and practices to establish in the field of medicine.
ABOUT THE DATA SHARING PROJECT
While many data sharing programs exist worldwide, widespread sharing of raw data has not yet won across-the-board acceptance in the scientific community, and the very existence of all these databases makes the approach fractured at best.
The Data Sharing Project, launched last year by University of California-San Francisco Professor Michael Weiner, has two goals: One is to make widespread raw data sharing a reality — initially in the realm of medicine — through creation of a repository system accessible to all researchers; the second goal is to foster broad scientific support for this move and its adoption in other fields of research.
HISTORY
While there is a long-established tradition in the scientific realm of collaborative efforts to enhance knowledge, this has generally been limited to the sharing of pre-prints. There is considerable resistance among many scientists to full-scale sharing of all data, both raw and analyzed, due to its cost, time requirements and researchers’ fears they will be denied proper credit and financial gain for their findings.
This resistance remains although several highly regarded programs, including the Human Genome Project, have shown that such sharing can produce rapid scientific breakthroughs that otherwise would not have occurred.
Examine, for instance, a brief description of success provided by the Genome project, which shared its raw data as soon as it was produced:
“Technology and resources promoted by the Human Genome Project are starting to have profound impacts on biomedical research and promise to revolutionize the wider spectrum of biological research and clinical medicine. Increasingly detailed genome maps have aided researchers seeking genes associated with dozens of genetic conditions, including myotonic dystrophy, fragile X syndrome, neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2, inherited colon cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and familial breast cancer.” (Human Genome Project: About The HGP)
With major projects demonstrating the tremendous scientific breakthroughs made possible by data sharing and with the decline of technological barriers impeding such efforts, the time has come to work to achieve widespread sharing of raw data worldwide.
The Data Sharing Project proposes to further this goal initially in the field of medicine by working to create a raw data sharing program that will serve as a model to other disciplines attempting to make their own way in this arena.
The Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE) — together with the University of California-San Francisco and support from the Michael J. Fox Foundation — is now in the process of canvassing the scientific community to analyze the best possible data sharing program and practices to establish in the field of medicine.
Mar 23, 2017 12:03 PM | RamyaDevi Sundaravadivel
RE: Scientific Data Sharing
Hello Ibenz,
I am working on breast thermal images.
can you please suggest me where I can find such datasets..
I am working on breast thermal images.
can you please suggest me where I can find such datasets..