Sharing ecological data through DANS-easy and institutional websites Eelke Jongejans My research focuses on the impact of environmental drivers on spatial population dynamics. I want to understand how ecological and evolutionary processes at the individual level interact and scale-up to population dynamics. I am especially interested in ecological frameworks and models that can augment the scientific underpinning of conservation, harvest and control management. My research focuses on the impact of environmental drivers on spatial population dynamics. I want to understand how ecological and evolutionary processes at the individual level interact and scale-up to population dynamics. I am especially interested in ecological frameworks and models that can augment the scientific underpinning of conservation, harvest and control management. examples of data sharing doi:10.1038/nature13531 Image: Nature 2014-07-09 Concentration imidacloprid in surface water (data from Dutch water boards) Foto: Jouke Altenburg (SOVON) doi:10.1038/nature13531 Populations of 15 bird species (data from well-trained volunteer birders) Boerenzwaluw Bosrietzanger Fitis Gele kwikstaart Geelgors Grasmus Graspieper Grote lijster Kleine karekiet Rietzanger Ringmus Roodborsttapuit Spotvogel Spreeuw Veldleeuwerik doi:10.1038/nature13531 N=1459; P<0.0001 doi:10.1038/nature13531 Website of Nature Archiving data ? Archiving data: EASY ? I probably was somewhat naïve about how EASY it was going to be… there already was a publication with all the information about the data. A fair amount of attempts and emails from DANS EASY later I understood that: -  We had to write 2 pages describing where the data come from, because of concerns about copyright and accessibility of the Nature paper -  All columns in the data files needed to be explained again -  More metadata were required than anticipated by me -  All authors had to be contributors, not just me Rob  Salguero-­‐Gómez,  Owen  Jones   compadre-­‐contact@demogr.mpg.de   From the field to your plate! 0.2 0.5 3.0 5.0 0.4 0.2 2.1 3.2 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 Tiny Small Medium Large Size @ t Si ze @ t + 1 From the field to your plate! Salguero-Gomez et al. J Animal Ecol in review Salguero-Gómez et al. J Ecol 2015 Salguero-Gómez et al. J Animal Ecol in review bioRxiv – DOI 10.1101/027821 0 500 1000 1500 Year of publication C u m u la tiv e n u m b e r o f a n im a l s tu d ie s 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 0 500 1000 1500 Year of publication C u m u la tiv e n u m b e r o f p la n t st u d ie s 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 C um ul at iv e nu m be r o f s tu di es . From the field to your plate! Big analyses Teaching Outreach   Fieldwork,   Analyses   Publica?on   Digitalization Standardization Error-check Complementation What is in COMPADRE? What is in COMPADRE? COMADRE 1.0.0: 345 species, 1625 matrices COMPADRE 3.2.1: 637 species, 6242 matrices comadre com adr e$m eta dat a PHOTO%OF%MARMOT%HERE% MatrixPopulation "East; Gothic; Meadow;…" LatDeg 38 LatMin 57 LatSec 0 LatNS "N" LonDeg 106 LonMin 59 LonSec 0 LonWE "W" Altitude 2900 Country "USA" Continent "N America" Ecoregion "TCF" StudiedSex "F" MatrixComposite "Mean" MatrixTreatment "Unmanipulated" Captivity 1962 MatrixStartYear NA MatrixStartSeason NA MatrixStartMonth NA MatrixEndYear 2005 MatrixEndSeason NA MatrixEndMonth NA MatrixSplit "Divided" MatrixFec "Yes" Observation "Mean of pooled data. …" MatrixDimension 4 SurvivalIssue 0.684 SpeciesAuthor "Marmota_flaviventris_3" SpeciesAccepted "Marmota_flaviventris" CommonName "Yellow-bellied marmot" CoLCheckOK TRUE ColCheckDate "28052015" Infraspecific NA SpeciesEpithetAccepted "flaviventris" GenusAccepted "Marmota" GenusAuthor "Marmota" Family "Sciuridae" Order "Rodentia" Class "Mammalia" Phylum "Chordata" Kingdom "Animalia" Authors "Ozgul; Oli; Armitage; Blumstein; Van Vuren" Journal "Am Nat" YearPublication 2009 DOI.ISBN "10.1086/597225" AdditionalSource NA StudyDuration 44 StudyStart 1962 StudyEnd 2005 AnnualPeriodicity 1 NumberPopulations 8 MatrixCriteriaSize "No" MatrixCriteriaOntogeny "Yes" MatrixCriteriaAge "Yes" MatrixClassOrganized "active" "active" "active" "active" MatrixClassAuthor "Juvenile (0-1 year)" "Yearling (1-2 years)" "Pre-reproductive (>= 2 years)" "Reproductive (>= 2 years)" MatrixClassNumber 1 2 3 4 Version "1.0.0" DateCreated "Oct 5 2015" NumberSpeciesAccepted 346 NumberStudies 280 NumberMatrices 1603 matU U1 U2 U3 U4 [1,] 0.00 0.23 0.44 0.00 [2,] 0.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 [3,] 0.00 0.40 0.33 0.00 [4,] 0.00 0.13 0.22 0.68 matF matC F1 F2 F3 F4 [1,] 0.00 0.00 0.00 475757 [2,] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 [3,] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 [4,] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 C1 C2 C3 C4 [1,] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 [2,] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 [3,] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 [4,] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 matA A1 A2 A3 A4 [1,] 0.00 0.23 0.44 475757 [2,] 0.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 [3,] 0.00 0.40 0.33 0.00 [4,] 0.00 0.13 0.22 0.68 35 peer-review publications… and >20 on-going projects RESEARCH POTENTIAL “I’m not interested in your data; I’m interested in merging your data with other data. Your data will never be as exciting as what I can merge it with” Tim Berners-Lee examples of data sharing Sharing data: Great idea! Some practical issues: -  Data ownership? -  What (level of) data? -  Embargos? -  Journal requirement? -  Data equals authorship? -  Data misuse Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands