Data Management in Astrobiology: Challenges and Opportunities for an Interdisciplinary Community

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2014-06-01

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Aydınoğlu, Arsev Umur
Malone, Jim

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Data management and sharing are growing concerns for scientists and funding organizations throughout the world. Funding organizations are implementing requirements for data management plans, while scientists are establishing new infrastructures for data sharing. One of the difficulties is sharing data among a diverse set of research disciplines. Astrobiology is a unique community of researchers, containing over 110 different disciplines. The current study reports the results of a survey of data management practices among scientists involved in the astrobiology community and the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) in particular. The survey was administered over a 2-month period in the first half of 2013. Fifteen percent of the NAI community responded (n = 114), and additional (n = 80) responses were collected from members of an astrobiology Listserv. The results of the survey show that the astrobiology community shares many of the same concerns for data sharing as other groups. The benefits of data sharing are acknowledged by many respondents, but barriers to data sharing remain, including lack of acknowledgement, citation, time, and institutional rewards. Overcoming technical, institutional, and social barriers to data sharing will be a challenge into the future.

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Data preservation, Data sharing, Data management

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30707

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ASTROBIOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2013.1127

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

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A. U. Aydınoğlu and J. Malone, “Data Management in Astrobiology: Challenges and Opportunities for an Interdisciplinary Community,” ASTROBIOLOGY, pp. 451–461, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30707.