Re: STM Releases Related to EC Conference last week

["Greg Tananbaum" <gtananbaum@gmail.com>]

An interesting principle laid out in the STM Brussels Declaration 
states:

"Raw research data should be made freely available to all 
researchers. Publishers encourage the public posting of the raw 
data outputs of research. Sets or sub-sets of data that are 
submitted with a paper to a journal should wherever possible be 
made freely accessible to other scholars."

The questions this brings to mind are how the raw data should be 
curated, whether raw data can be effectively 
aggregated/crosswalked, and who should put up the resources 
necessary to host, maintain, and preserve the raw data.

Imagine the day when a researcher interested in Hurricane Katrina 
can readily find a 360 degree research view of the storm.  Tide 
tables and water level information from the meteorologists. 
Hospital admittances and mortality rates from the public health 
experts.  Financial impact studies from the economists. 
Post-traumatic stress incidences from the psychologists.  In the 
drawing together of these various strands of information, the 
potential exists to change the course of scientific research.

It is good to see that STM, ALPSP, and its signatories are not 
(presently) claiming dominion over the building blocks of 
science.

Best, Greg

Greg Tananbaum
gtananbaum@gmail.com