EcoBank: A Flexible Data Platform for Sharing Ecological Data

Abstract

Environmental crisis challenges human race harder than ever before. Ecologists have produced a massive amount of data to cope with the crisis. Accordingly, so many ecological data platforms have been developed worldwide to manage and analyze these datasets. However, in Korea, ecological datasets produced by different research institutes for different purposes have not been integrated or serviced due to the lack of a well-designed information infrastructure. To address this obstacle, we present EcoBank (www.nieecobank.kr), an open, web-based ecological data platform designed to play an important role in ecological

The types of research data receiving scholarly credit within and across the science, engineering, and mathematics fields

“…In particular, qualitative data tend to be shared only rarely (Faniel and Jacobsen 2010;Wallis et al 2013), possibly owing to such characteristics as the tendency to include sensitive personal data. Rather, experimental data have more been often reused (He and Nahar 2016;Zhao, Yan and Li 2018); thus, for example, Korean social sciences researchers were found to prefer quantitative and survey data for reuse (Kim, Yoon and Chung 2020) and Chinese chemistry researchers to use experimental and observation data widely (Chen and Wu 2017). Biologists share their research data depending on the type (Kim 2022).…”