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The problem is of a lack of data publishing. All data should be published; all conclusions published (preferably with the code that generated the conclusions) so corrections can be made and improved conclusions drawn easily.



> The problem is of a lack of data publishing

Agreed. If you have any recommendations for long-term public data archival they would be greatly appreciated. OSF recently instituted a 50 GB cap which rules out publishing many types of raw data, and subscription options (AWS, Dropbox, etc.) will lead to link rot when the uploading author changes jobs or retires, or the project's money runs out. Sure, publishing summary spreadsheets is a good first step, but there should be a public place for video and other large data files. IPFS was previously suggested but the data still needs to be hosted somewhere. Maybe YouTube is the best option, despite transcoding?


I have no answers. If the scientific community were cooperative enough it could perhaps come up with a shared platform, but it'd be hard to associate budgets with shared resources.




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