Open data and digital morphology

Tom Davies; Imran  Rahman; Stephan Lautenschlager; John A Cunningham; Robert J Asher; Paul M Barrett; Karl T Bates; Stefan Bengtson; Roger B J Benson; Doug M Boyer; José Braga; Jen A Bright; Leon P A M Claessens; Philip G Cox; Xi-Ping Dong; Alistair R Evans; Peter L Falkingham; Matt Friedman; Russell J Garwood; Anjali Goswami; John R Hutchinson; Nathan S Jeffery; Zerina Johanson; Renaud Lebrun; Carlos Martínez-Pérez; Jesús Marugán-Lobón; Paul M O'Higgins; Brian Metscher; Maëva Orliac; Timothy B Rowe; Martin Rücklin; Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra; Neil H Shubin; Selena Y Smith; J Matthias Starck; Chris Stringer; Adam P Summers; Mark D Sutton; Stig A Walsh; Vera Weisbecker; Lawrence M Witmer; Stephen Wroe; Zongjun Yin; Emily J Rayfield; Philip C J Donoghue

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Open data and digital morphology

Tom Davies, Imran Rahman, Stephan Lautenschlager, John A Cunningham, Robert J Asher, Paul M Barrett, Karl T Bates, Stefan Bengtson, Roger B J Benson, Doug M Boyer, José Braga, Jen A Bright, Leon P A M Claessens, Philip G Cox, Xi-Ping Dong, Alistair R Evans, Peter L Falkingham, Matt Friedman, Russell J Garwood, Anjali GoswamiJohn R Hutchinson, Nathan S Jeffery, Zerina Johanson, Renaud Lebrun, Carlos Martínez-Pérez, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Paul M O'Higgins, Brian Metscher, Maëva Orliac, Timothy B Rowe, Martin Rücklin, Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra, Neil H Shubin, Selena Y Smith, J Matthias Starck, Chris Stringer, Adam P Summers, Mark D Sutton, Stig A Walsh, Vera Weisbecker, Lawrence M Witmer, Stephen Wroe, Zongjun Yin, Emily J Rayfield^*, Philip C J Donoghue

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	20170194
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Volume	284
Issue number	1852
Early online date	12 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0194
Publication status	Published - 12 Apr 2017

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Computed tomography
Digital data
Functional analysis
Phenotype
Three-dimensional models
Visualization

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Davies, T., Rahman, I., 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., ... Donoghue, P. C. J. (2017). Open data and digital morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1852), Article 20170194. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0194

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