Monthly Archives: August 2011

The plate tectonics of research data publication

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

In biology, the fields of macromolecular structural biology and sequence bioinformatics have, since the 1970s, had established international databases for the deposition of data, and journal policies mandating such deposition prior to acceptance for publication of manuscripts describing the data.  … Continue reading →

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IBRG projects to facilitate data publication and data citation

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

In the previous post, I outlined reasons why researchers don’t publish data, presented as evidence to the Royal Society’s Policy Study “Science as a Public Enterprise” Call for Evidence.  Here, I summarize activities by members of my Image Bioinformatics Research … Continue reading →

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Why researchers don’t publish data

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

Evidence submitted by David Shotton in response to the Royal Society’s Policy Study “Science as a Public Enterprise” Call for Evidence, addressing the following two topics raised by that call: Getting Researcher buy-in. How do we get researchers to be … Continue reading →

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Current Projects at the Image Bioinformatics Research Group in Oxford

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

Alistair Miles, of SKOS fame, who formerly worked in our research group, spent yesterday afternoon catching up with us, and has written a nice blog post on the MalariaGEN Informatics Blog describing our current activities, including our work on the … Continue reading →

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