Grootveld, Marjan and van Egmond, Jeff Peer-reviewed open research data: results of a pilot., 2011 . In 7th International Digital Curation Conference "Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape", Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol, UK, 5 - 7 December 2011. [Conference paper]
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Peer review of publications is at the core of science and primarily seen as instrument for ensuring research quality. However, it is less common to value independently the quality of the underlying data as well. In the light of the “data deluge” it makes sense to extend peer review to the data itself and this way evaluate the degree to which the data are fit for re-use. This paper describes a pilot study at EASY - the electronic archive for (open) research data at our institution. In EASY, researchers can archive their data and add metadata themselves. Devoted to open access and data sharing, at the archive we are interested in further enriching these metadata with peer reviews. As pilot we established a workflow where researchers who have downloaded data sets from the archive were asked to review the downloaded data set. This paper describes the details of the pilot including the findings, both quantitative and qualitative. Finally we discuss issues that need to be solved when such a pilot should be turned into structural peer review functionality of the archiving system.
| Item type: | Conference paper |
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| Keywords: | peer review, data, data sharing, data review, archive, open access |
| Subjects: | C. Users, literacy and reading. > CA. Use studies. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DL. Archives. I. Information treatment for information services > IZ. None of these, but in this section. J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JH. Digital preservation. |
| Depositing user: | Andrea Scharnhorst |
| Date deposited: | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:21 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16668 |
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