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Re: Torosaurus - Original Museum Notes Posted
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- Subject: Re: Torosaurus - Original Museum Notes Posted
- From: rcpm20@bath.ac.uk
- Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:44:56 +0000
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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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