How to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful

Oh it&#x27;s by Nature one of the beneficiaries of the corporate capture of publication metrics. This is like reading an article by DeBeers about how you can do a proposal without spending as much on diamonds as you are afraid that you might.<p>Here&#x27;s what you can do. Make a github account. Make an account on arxiv.org or biorxiv.org. Publish your work onto arxiv. Put all of your data onto your github account, including copies of whatever you put onto arxiv and including extensive markdown readme file that is a synopsis of the paper. Disseminate it by announcing it on your twitter or mastodon or rss blog or substack or research community discord and even put it to a site like hacker news if it&#x27;s relevant. If you are with an affiliated institution then their press office will put a small release.

If you are a computer scientist, deliver a permalink hosted Docker image for a paper that runs fully-unattended by default and produces the graphs and data in the paper verbatim. If you cannot do this, you must turn in your nerd badge and report to the cryptobros for reassignment. You win a Medal of Honor nerd badge if the code is a literate programming quine embedded in TeX source and plays a crack demoscene track while doing an AI DOOM speedrun in ANSI.

It&#x27;s also interesting to look at this in the context of the &quot;State of Open Data&quot; report [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalscience.figshare.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;report&#x2F;The_State_of_Open_Data_2022&#x2F;21276984&#x2F;5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalscience.figshare.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;report&#x2F;The_Stat...</a>

Heh, it takes a lot of work to convert illegible scribbles in lab notebooks to well-formatted numbers and descriptors that make sense to anyone else but the person who did the experiment.<p>This includes other lab members on the same project...

For physical science, I think people could use ISO 10303 [1] to represent their experimental process and results.<p>A facility like CERN could have an accurate model of the equipment available, you just add the description of your experiment and the results to it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ISO_10303" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ISO_10303</a>

The article doesn&#x27;t fully answer its title, especially the &quot;discoverable.&quot;

IPFS or torrent are the best options for distributing data

did they say to publish it in an overpriced black box so only their subscribers can view it?