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Model and Data Sharing Working Group 2013 Plans

The Data Sharing Working Group merged with the Model Sharing Working Group during the 2012 MSM meeting. The contents of this page have been merged into the Model Sharing Working Group 2012 Discussion Page; they remain here for reference.

Model and Data Sharing Working Group

This group was established during the 2012 MSM meeting by merger of the Model Sharing Working Group and the Data Sharing Working Group.

This working group is dedicated to encouraging the development, use, and maintenance of repositories of experimental data together with the associated models that illuminate the data. In particular, the goal is to facilitate the free exchange of data and models. The philosophical view is that good data are the basic treasures of science; such treasures should be made freely available.

The specific goals of this Working Group include:

1. Develop and promote repositories of models and experimental data to facilitate model reproducibility, model sharing, and model enhancement.

2. Foster the pairing of models with data. Models accompanied by data that provide evidence of validity will serve as milestones of scientific progress.

3. Archive data and models in forms convenient to potential users, and develop archives that will have permanence.

Discussion Topics for the Model and Data Sharing Working Group

1. Can data be usefully shared without associated models?

2. Should models ever be published without associated data?

3. Can existing archives (e.g. PhysioNet[1], Physiome [2]) be used for data and model sharing or do we need a new one?

4. Are new resources required to establish a MSM archiving function?

5. How important is it to agree on a common modeling language? A common format for physiologic data (waveforms)? Are translators required?

6. What is the current status of sharing models and data? Are investigators sharing at all?

7. What are the barriers to data and model sharing?

• Proprietary concerns?
• Technical concerns?
  • Software compatibility?
  • Format incompatibility for signals?
• Resource limitations?

8. What would be the benefits of data/model sharing? What are the risks of sharing? What are possible motivations for sharing?