Open data and digital morphology
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Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the study of living and fossil organisms. However, the initial promise that the widespread application of such methods would facilitate access to the underlying digital data has not been fully achieved. The underlying datasets for many published studies are not readily or freely available, introducing a barrier to verification and reproducibility, and the reuse of data. There is no current agreement or policy on the amount and type of data that should be made available alongside studies that use, and in some cases are wholly reliant on, digital morphology. Here, we propose a set of recommendations for minimum standards and additional best practice for three-dimensional digital data publication, and review the issues around data storage, management and accessibility.
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- Authors
- Davies, T. G., Rahman, I. A., Lautenschlager, S., Cunningham, J. A., Asher, R. J., Barrett, P. M., Bates, K. T., Bengtson, S., Benson, R. B. J., Boyer, D. M., Braga, J., Bright, J. A., Claessens, L. P. A. M., Cox, P. G., Dong, X.-P., Evans, A. R., Falkingham, P. L., Friedman, M., Garwood, R. J., Goswami, A., Hutchinson, J. R., Jeffery, N. S., Johanson, Z., Lebrun, R., Martínez-Pérez, C., Marugán-Lobón, J., O'Higgins, P. M., Metscher, B., Orliac, M., Rowe, T. B., Rücklin, M., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Shubin, N. H., Smith, S. Y., Starck, J. M., Stringer, C., Summers, A. P., Sutton, M. D., Walsh, S. A., Weisbecker, V., Witmer, L. M., Wroe, S., Yin, Z., Rayfield, E. J., & Donoghue, P. C. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Bristol (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Natural History Museum (GB)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Swedish Museum of Natural History (SE)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Dept. Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, PO Box 90383, Biological Sciences Building, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708, USA
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of South Florida (US)
- College of the Holy Cross (US)
- University of York (GB)
- Peking University (CN)
- Monash University (AU)
- Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
- University of Michigan (US)
- University College London (GB)
- Royal Veterinary College (GB)
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
- Unidad de Paleontología, Dpto. Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Cantoblanco, Spain
- Dept. Archaeology and Hull York Medical School, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
- University of Vienna (AT)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NL)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- University of Washington (US)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- National Museums Scotland (GB)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Ohio University (US)
- University of New England (AU)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Rayfield, Emily J.
- Donoghue, Philip C. J.
- ORCID
- Rahman, Imran A.
- Lautenschlager, Stephan
- Cunningham, John A.
- Asher, Robert J.
- Barrett, Paul M.
- Bates, Karl T.
- Bengtson, Stefan
- Benson, Roger B. J.
- Braga, José
- Bright, Jen A.
- Claessens, Leon P. A. M.
- Cox, Philip G.
- Evans, Alistair R.
- Falkingham, Peter L.
- Friedman, Matt
- Garwood, Russell J.
- Goswami, Anjali
- Hutchinson, John R.
- Jeffery, Nathan S.
- Johanson, Zerina
- Lebrun, Renaud
- Marugán-Lobón, Jesús
- Metscher, Brian
- Orliac, Maëva
- Rowe, Timothy B.
- Rücklin, Martin
- Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.
- Shubin, Neil H.
- Smith, Selena Y.
- Starck, J. Matthias
- Stringer, Chris
- Summers, Adam P.
- Sutton, Mark D.
- Walsh, Stig A.
- Weisbecker, Vera
- Witmer, Lawrence M.
- Wroe, Stephen
- Yin, Zongjun
- Rayfield, Emily J.
- Donoghue, Philip C. J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2017-04-12
- Volume
- 284
- Issue
- 1852
- Pages
- 20170194
- ISSN
- 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
- 0962-8452
- 1471-2954
- PMC
- PMC5394671
- OpenAlex
- W2599500331
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 14 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 7.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nd)
- National Museums Scotland Repository (acceptedVersion)
- Liverpool John Moores University (acceptedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- RUNE (Research UNE) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DORA PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nd)
- Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RVC Research Online (Royal Veterinary College) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Natural History Museum, London (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Funders
- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
- H2020 European Research Council
- Vetenskapsrådet
- The Calleva Foundation
- Leverhulme Trust
- Human Origins Research Fund
- National Science Foundation
- Royal Society
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Geometry and Topology › Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Keywords
- open data, digital morphology, data accessibility, data storage and management, reproducibility, data reuse, data sharing policy, fossil specimen
- MeSH terms
- Biological Science Disciplines, Research, Reproducibility of Results, Datasets as Topic, Data Curation
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