[Esip-preserve] Fwd: Geoscience Data Journal

[Bruce Barkstrom]

There's a new paper on making and recognizing that the claims
made regarding a data collection are well grounded.  It's in the
Communications of the ACM: Denning, P., 2012: The Grounding
Practice: The skill of making and recognizing grounded claims
is essential for professional practice.  Getting objective data to
support your conclusions is not enough., CACM, Vol. 54, No. 12,
pp.38-40.

Basically, Denning notes that "A claim is a statement that asserts
something is true.  A grounded claim is a claim accompanied by
sufficient, relevant supporting evidence." [p. 38]  While we usually
accept a journal peer review of a paper as being a grounded claim,
it is not very clear to me that a DOI or other unique identifier has
sufficient evidence to support a claim of data validity.  In some cases,
such as the data underlying weather forecasts or warnings, there
is clearly insufficient time to allow peer review (taking six months to
a year to provide peer review of these data would render them
valueless).  In other cases, the peer review that we generally rely
on as grounds for accepting the validity of a claim regarding data
would need to examine the code and various intercomparisons,
which could require a huge investment on the part of the reviewers.

Bruce B.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Anne Wilson
<anne.wilson at lasp.colorado.edu> wrote:
> Interesting.  So, I wonder what aspects of the dataset are reviewed, if any?
>  I see three criteria for publication: datasets are in approved data centers
> (approved by who?), have been awarded DOIs, and the paper contains requisite
> info.  I suppose those can be easily enough confirmed.  Is that all that is
> checked?  What about the accuracy of the information provided?  Who does the
> reviews?  Is it anonymous?
>
> Anne
>
>
> Mark A. Parsons wrote:
>>
>> A new "Data paper" journal…
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -m.
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> *From: *<sarah.callaghan at stfc.ac.uk <mailto:sarah.callaghan at stfc.ac.uk>>
>>> *Subject: **Geoscience Data Journal *
>>> *Date: *23 January 2012 6:58:20 AM MST
>>> *To: *undisclosed-recipients:;
>>>
>>>
>>> -->
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>>
>>> Please find attached the outline for the Geoscience Data Journal, a new
>>> data journal that’s going to be launched in a few months.
>>>
>>>
>>> The editorial board have (very sensibly!) decided to work closely with
>>> the data centres to identify potential authors for their data papers (at
>>> least until the scientific culture changes and it becomes normal to publish
>>> data sets like this).  I’ve been given the task of acting as point of
>>> contact between the editorial board and the data centres.
>>>
>>>
>>> Data journals provide data centres with an excellent opportunity to
>>> promote the high-quality datasets stored in our archives, along with giving
>>> the scientists who created those datasets full academic credit for their
>>> efforts.
>>>
>>>
>>> I’d very much appreciate it if people could spread the news about this
>>> data journal to both their data centre users and also colleagues in data
>>> centres around the world.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have any comments or questions, then please do get in touch with
>>> me.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and best wishes,
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> Dr Sarah Callaghan MInstP CPhys FRMetS
>>>
>>> British Atmospheric Data Centre
>>>
>>> STFC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
>>>
>>> Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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