Data Stewardship for Open Science

CHAPTER 8

Data cycle step 7: Information and insight publishing

As discussed in the Introduction and in the open science animation ¹ , we clearly distinguish between the publishing of (narrative) conclusions, claims, and insights in classical scientific articles and the publishing of data. Narrative (not necessarily journals as we know them) will always play a role in the digging part of open science. Computers and computer-readable language are not very well suited to interpret human language and associative reasoning. So, the description of why and how the study was done, how the results were obtained and why the claims based on the data are valid, will always need a human-readable element. Rhetoric and argumentative language are largely meant ...