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Featured Collection Introduction: Open Water Data Initiative
Author(s) -
Bales Jerad
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/1752-1688.12439
Subject(s) - data sharing , intellectual property , open data , documentation , government (linguistics) , business , public relations , public domain , private sector , information privacy , political science , commercialization , internet privacy , computer science , law , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , alternative medicine , theology , pathology , programming language
Large-scale data sharing has been an accepted practice in the scientific community since at least 1873, when an international standard for weather observation was adopted by the Vienna Congress (Sieber, 2015). Nevertheless, open data sharing is not universally practiced. For example, in one survey more than 20% of doctoral students in life sciences were denied access to information, data, materials, or code associated with published research (Vogeli et al., 2006). At the dawning of the Internet age in 1997, the National Research Council (NRC) addressed data sharing in the following way: