Data Archiving

Data Archiving

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Data Archiving discusses how science depends on good data. Most data are central to the understanding of the natural world. The results of the study, when published, the data on which those results were based are sometimes stored unreliably. The subject of loss can occur because of hard drive failure. Also, it can be because of hard drive failure, and it might be the research for getting the specific details required to use the data. For the broader community, most data are never available, which can be even after publication of the results. It also explains how the data, even after the main results for which they were collected, are published, are invaluable to science, for meta-analysis, new uses, and quality control. Necessary summary statistics are often not published. The study is only used if the original data are available to the meta-analysts. Data can be used in ways beyond the questions that sparked its collection. Error checking, making science more peon, and letting us more rapidly reach accurate conclusions can happened because of the availability of data of published studies. It even explains why data are adequately archived are saved for posterity.
This article has a well-detailed explanation of how science depends. It brings up various examples such as GenBank, which shows the value of availability of data for all those above reasons.

Whitlock Michael C., McPeek Mark A., Rausher Mark D., Rieseber Loren, and Morre Allen J,

The University of Chicago Press for The American Society of Naturalists

2010-02

Stephen Taggart

Online Journal

Whitlock, Michael C., Mark A. McPeek, Mark D. Rausher, Loren Rieseberg, and Allen J. Moore. "Data Archiving." The American Naturalist 175, no. 2 (2010): 145-46. Accessed April 13, 2020. doi:10.1086/650340.