12  Workflow 1

12.1 Search for reusable data

Why?
For resource intensive data collections this could save you a lot of time and money

Resources
Research data centers have searchable databases


12.2 Decide between sharing for reuse or reproducibility

Why?

  • Providing data at a reseach data center costs time and money for you and the data center
  • Typically,
    • sharing for reuse purposes is suited for research data centers
    • sharing for reproducibility purposes is suited for repositories

Resources
I am not aware of any standards to make this decision. Here are a couple of guidelines to decide, if your data is fit for reuse

  • Costs:
    • How much effort is required for well-documented data sharing (e.g., Does a codebook exist? What steps are necessary for data cleaning/editing?)
    • Is there consent for reuse available or would it have to be obtained retrospectively?
  • Benefits:
    • Analysis potential (e.g., not fully analyzed, type of data, connected with other data sources)
    • Quality of data (e.g., representative, size, special features of sample)

Questions to be answered at the end?
Please put them here!