I get that e.g. single-unit monkey e-phys is expensive and being forced by the Open Mafia to immediately share it could be the difference b/t one pub or two.
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You can ask them to change but why demand it like they should change file types/formats for you? Surely that's a tiny easy thing to do and since it's for you purpose you would know how to do it better than them anyway?
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Unless I am missing something, which is very possible, what is a case in which it's OK to demand (not kindly ask but demand!) a change in formats as if the data collector has made a huge error?
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But that is a completely different matter. I think it should suffice that the data is properly labelled, designs identified, and operations declared. My view.
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Yes, there should always be meta data. Are we talking about meta data or data formats? Different things.
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*metadata
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Documentation and metadata are really important, although demands should be phrased kindly and probably dialed back to questions since it's always possible the information is somewhere not yet found by the more data parasitic person.
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This is something a peer reviewer should be catching anyway, so I would question how recent datasets like this (w/o metadata/docs) get past PR. More focus on training PhD students & postdocs to review open science is needed and journals should explain how to catch such omissions!
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