Content is adapted from the Love Your Data website.
It’s the final day of Love Your Data Week! Today’s topic is the big picture – transforming, extending, and reusing. Today is about putting the entire week together! Think about all the topics we’ve talked about this week and focus on how to make your data reusable for your future self and others. Share your plan with us or ask us about ways you can share and reuse on Twitter!
“Wear your open on your sleeve” (Mike Eisen, OpenCon 2015 keynote)
Good Practice
Still emerging, depends on your field and research community!
Things to Avoid
Locking down your data if it can be reused by others without legal or ethical restrictions
Today’s Activity
Think about how your data might be used by your “future self.” How can you plan, document, and share your data to make it more reusable in the future?
Check out these stories about how data are shared and reused by others.
- Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom: Data Stories
- DataONE Data Stories
- ODE Ten Tales of Drivers & Barriers in Data Sharing
Want to learn more about open science? Check out the talks and projects from OpenCon2015.