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Bases de datos de acceso abierto como un recurso sin precedente y causante de cambio cultural en la ciencia pesquera
Author(s) -
McManamay Ryan A.,
Utz Ryan M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1080/03632415.2014.946128
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , fisheries science , scale (ratio) , fisheries management , business , data access , data sharing , fisheries law , fishery , environmental resource management , data science , computer science , database , geography , economics , fishing , medicine , alternative medicine , cartography , pathology , biology , programming language
Open‐access databases with utility in fisheries science have grown exponentially in quantity and scope over the past decade, with profound impacts to our discipline. The management, distillation, and sharing of an exponentially growing stream of open‐access data represents several fundamental challenges in fisheries science. Many of the currently available open‐access resources may not be universally known among fisheries scientists. We therefore introduce many national‐ and global‐scale open‐access databases with applications in fisheries science and provide an example of how they can be harnessed to perform valuable analyses without additional field efforts. We also discuss how the development, maintenance, and utilization of open‐access data are likely to pose technical, financial, and educational challenges to fisheries scientists. Such cultural implications that will coincide with the rapidly increasing availability of free data should compel the American Fisheries Society to actively address these problems now to help ease the forthcoming cultural transition.