Fwd: PeerJ paper comments (from Ruth)

[Joe Hourcle]

I didn't realize that Ruth had sent these to me, not because she was keeping it quiet, but because she didn't have access to her full addressbook from her iPad.

I'll work in the bits about history & re-use into my additions to the intro, but there are some other bits, too.

-Joe



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ruth Duerr <rdu...@nsidc.org>
> Date: January 6, 2015 8:51:15 AM EST
> To: Joe Hourcle <one...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov>
> Subject: PeerJ paper comments
>
>
> I suggest removing the word now from the last sentence of the first paragraph of the abstract:
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> Data are now to be considered as first-class scholarly objects, and treatedsimilarly in many ways to cited and archived scientific and scholarly literature.
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> and following it with something like:
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> This actually reflects practices from the pre-digital era, where data available for re-use typically ended up in the gray literature in the form of books and reports that were routinely cited when used.
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> The why cite data section gives short shrift to data re-use - this needs to be corrected. Some comment about the scientific method requiring citing your sources and that data are now and have been a source for generations.
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> The following statement also needs to be extended to include citing re-used data:
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> However, individuals cancontribute to adoption of these principles by choosing to publish in venues that implement them, and by ensuring that primary research data is prepared for archival deposition at or before publication.
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> I suggest adding something like:
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> .... and that re-used data is properly cited.
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> Under the Landing Page section, I suggest adding something like:
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> Fourth, the landing page provides a mechanism to inform users of the number and size of files in the cited data, thus preventing the user from inadvertently requesting what might be Terabytes of data.
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> On the Earth science side this statement doesn't really make sense:
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> When multiple datasets are available on one landing page, licensing information may be grouped for all relevant datasets.
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> In our community, the following would be more relevant:
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> Where a dataset is very large or consists of a large number of files (e.g. MODIS Level 2 snow data currently consists of 2.4 million individual files).
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> In the stakeholder responsibilities section, the researcher section:
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> 3. Researchers: Researchers should treat their original data as first-class research objects. They shouldensure it is deposited in an archive that adheres to the practices descried here. We also strongly encourageauthors to publish preferentially only with journals which implement these practices.
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> needs to have something like the following appended:
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> as well as to cite all source data used.
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> Ruth
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> Sent from my iPad