Re: Torosaurus - Original Museum Notes Posted

[rcpm20@bath.ac.uk]

Many thanks for the notes Andy, and kudos too to Mike for doing an  
excellent job serving-up his supplementary data.

  It just goes to show what's possible these days - this is exactly the
kind of thing we canvassed support for last year:
http://supportpalaeodataarchiving.co.uk/

There are very many different data stores available, some for  
'general' data some for specialist data types only, and most will host  
your data your free, very gladly. Many quantitative studies have shown  
data archiving has a good return on investment e.g. Piwowar, HA,  
Vision, TJ, & Whitlock, MC (2011). Data archiving is a good investment  
Nature, 473 (7347), 285-285


To quote the Panton Principles:

"Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the  
published body of scientific knowledge."

Without full, free, Open access to the data (be it numbers, images or  
other) that underlies the science we publish - how are we meant to  
effectively and efficiently build upon what we know?

I think it's great that Paleobiology and now the Journal of  
Paleontology archive *all* their supplementary data with Dryad.  
Perhaps other paleo journals could think about following this precedent?



For a reminder, here's a list of just some great  
paleo-databases/projects out there:
   
PaleoDB[1], MorphoBank[2], BioMesh[3], TreeBASE[4], BioTorrents[5], DigiMorph[6], MorphologyNet[7], MorphBank[8],Dryad[9], The Open Dinosaur Project[10], Zoobank[11], Cladestore[12], FigShare[13], ESRF Paleontological Microtomographic DB[14], Pangaea[15], Graeme Lloyd's dinosaur matrices[16] and many  
more...!


Sincerely,

Ross


Links:
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[1] http://paleodb.org/
[2] http://www.morphobank.org/
[3] http://www.biomesh.org/
[4] http://www.treebase.org/
[5] http://www.biotorrents.net/
[6] http://digimorph.org/
[7] http://ontology1.srv.mst.edu/morphologynet/about.html
[8] http://www.morphbank.net/
[9] http://www.datadryad.org/
[10] http://opendino.wordpress.com/
[11] http://zoobank.org/
[12] http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/cladestore/default.html
[13] http://figshare.com/
[14] http://paleo.esrf.eu/
[15] http://www.pangaea.de/
[16] http://www.graemetlloyd.com/matr.html

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Ross Mounce
PhD Student
Fossils, Phylogeny and Macroevolution Research Group
University of Bath
4 South Building, Lab 1.07
http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/biodiversity-lab/mounce.html
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