Academic Recognition for producing strategically important research Datasets
Comments(0) Yesterday I attended a very nice talk by Prof Edward Vanden Berghe (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA) on OBIS: the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. OBIS publishes, and integrates online, over 13 million locations of 80,000 species from over 230 databases; it is the marine thematic node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. (More about OBIS below).
When discussing the issues and challenges ahead for OBIS, he mentioned a matter that I have pondered for some time: domain-specific data repositories and collections, (which increasingly underpin research in that domain, such as OBIS), will only be sustainable if the researchers get academic recognition for providing their datasets for the collection. This relates to researcher motivation…. Read more »