A Short Guide to Better Manage Scientific Data

10 Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data 

In this article entitled 10 Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data, authors from Computational Biology and Information Science (Alyssa Goodman, Alberto Pepe, Alexander W. Blocker, Christine L. Borgman, Kyle Cranmer, Mercè Crosas, Rosanne Di Stefano, Yolanda Gil, Paul Groth, Margaret Hedstrom, David W. Hogg, Vinay Kashyap, Ashish Mahabal, Aneta Siemiginowska, Aleksandra Slavkovic) offer a short guide to the steps scientists can take to ensure that their data and associated analyses continue to be of value and to be recognized. In just the past few years, hundreds of scholarly papers and reports have been written on questions of data sharing, data provenance, research reproducibility, licensing, attribution, privacy, and more, but the goal of this article is not to review that literature. Instead, authors present a short guide intended for researchers who want to know why it is important to “care for and feed” data, with some practical advice on how to do that.