{"id":3596,"date":"2016-05-17T14:14:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2016-05-17T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:14:03","slug":"sharing-our-story-of-research-data-reuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/sharing-our-story-of-research-data-reuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Our Story of Research Data Reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may recall, back in February, Stephanie Wykstra<\/a> and I put out a call asking you to share your stories of research data reuse<\/a>. \u00a0That call closed on March 10th and we promised to report back what we learned. \u00a0Well, we did learn, though not what we expected or in the areas we hoped. \u00a0This blog post is a condensed version of a more thorough blog post written by Stephanie and posted on the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences blog<\/a>. \u00a0Head over there for more details on the results of our call.<\/p>\n

We received 14 responses to our call, including 10 responses to our survey<\/a> and 4 emailed responses. There weren\u2019t enough responses complete with the information we needed \u00a0to learn a great deal in terms of cases of real world reuse and what made the data particularly useful, \u00a0however we wanted to share what we were able to learn, for two reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. This call and response could be informative to those who are considering putting out a similar survey or doing related research, and<\/li>\n
  2. We think our findings do provide some evidence which confirms our initial feeling, which is that this is an area which warrants further work and research.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Responses<\/h2>\n

    Our 10 survey respondents came from political science, psychology, education and biochemistry. \u00a0Of those, only three examples were explicitly of the kind that we had requested e.g. data that had been collected by other researchers for their study, and then reused for further research. \u00a0(You can see our spreadsheet of de-identified responses with more details here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

    Though they didn\u2019t fit our purposes for this particular project, the helpful folks in this community gave us some great resources that may be of use to others doing research in this area:<\/p>\n