[CIG-MC] AGU's new data policy

[Thomas Ruedas]

I agree that movies are often useful for providing insights into results 
that may not have been included in a paper, but they cannot be more than 
a convenient supplement for a data archive, because they do not provide 
the quantitative information in a format that can be reused by others. 
Providing the actual datasets, by contrast, would allow others to 
generate movies if they want.
A more practical solution for producing a "small" archive is probably 
the use of lossy compression formats. I recall a paper in G3 by Afonso 
et al. (2015) 
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GC006031/abstract) in 
which a method was presented that allows the efficient compression of 
multidimensional datasets. Although the paper had phase diagrams in 
mind, this or a similar method could probably be used for storing 
modeling results without any substantial modifications at a lower cost 
than the storage of the raw, uncompressed data. Such an archive would 
not store the original raw data, but it would provide a dataset that 
should allow the reproduction and, more importantly, the replication of 
the published results. The advantage of replicability over 
reproducibility was brought up by Louise Kellogg earlier in this thread, 
and I concur with her that this is what AGU should aim for. Maybe it 
would be good if the community could settle on a data compression 
standard and provide tools for it.

Best,
Thomas

Am 13.03.18 um 09:40 schrieb Magali Billen:
> What are people’s thoughts about using movies of simulation output as a 
> way of archiving the model results?
> 
> These have to put together well to document the model results, but 
> together with the ability to rerun a model, they are a much smaller way 
> to archive results.  I also find that in reviewing papers that have 
> time-dependent models, its nice to see movies that document the full 
> dynamics  beyond what can be shown
> in snap-shots. Often what we put in the paper depends on what we are 
> focused on in that particular manuscript, but there is often a lot more 
> that could later be “mined” from model results. Making the
> movies allows others to see the data mining potential of the model 
> results, for questions that we might
> not have consider ourselves. This of course is more difficult for 3D 
> simulations, but I still think it could
> be a good way of making the model results more transparent and useful.
> 
> Thoughts - should movies be part of a CIG recommendation for how to 
> archive results for manuscripts?


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