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Medientyp: E-Artikel Titel: Editorial 2020 Part II: Data from nowhere? Beteiligte: Lane, Stuart N. Erschienen: Wiley, 2020 Erschienen in: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45 (2020) 1, Seite 5-10 Sprache: Englisch DOI: 10.1002/esp.4775 ISSN: 0197-9337; 1096-9837 Schlagwörter: Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ; Earth-Surface Processes ; Geography, Planning and Development Entstehung: Anmerkungen: Beschreibung: AbstractThis short editorial reflects upon and explains ESPL's policy with respect to data sharing. Whilst there are clearly a number of important reasons why data should be shared, notably to support transparency in science and to support the long‐term monitoring of geomorphological change, data sharing comes with some concerns. Data sharing cannot become an alternative to field data collection as it produces a scientific understanding of a very particular type. When shared data are combined in extensive analyses we run the serious risks of inter‐comparability, bias and incompleteness. Automated harnessing and analysis of any kind of geomorphological data runs the risk of combining data that are not comparable and producing conclusions skewed to the datasets available. Shared data allow for none of the serendipity that comes from being in the field and being confronted by what we see and experience; they might as well be data from nowhere. We must be particularly careful not to reduce the perceived value of field data collection in an academic system that places ever more emphasis on speed and efficiency in scientific knowledge production. It is for these reasons that ESPL's policy on data sharing is to support it and to encourage it, notably through requiring authors to provide a data statement, but we will not insist that data should be published as a condition of manuscript acceptance. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.