I want to add, that registration of data access is a violation of the privacy of a data user.
Usage of data and any functionalities of forums (exchange of knowledge and ideas, where you explicitly want to register) should be strictly separated.
Loss of privacy is not generally bad. But there are situations where loss of privacy, and especially that of scientists or citizen scientists, is critical.
Scientists are not always, but sometimes in conflict with those who have financial or political might. And it is very difficult to keep any information about interests and work of people closed, once those data are collected somewhere. That does not mean that those who establish the registration system want to do bad things. But they might lose control of their data about the interests of scientists or other citizens, be it on a legal or illegal way.
We e.g. had the situation that there was a conflict between a minister and scientists concerning the perishing of bees. Regardless, who is right, you can easily imagine, that such a minister might be very interested to know, who accesses data about bees. It might be very difficult to refuse to hand out collected data users and their interests to a minister, when you are paid by that ministry.
By the way: I am very happy about the discussion in this thread, as usually I feel very lonesome when I am warning against registration of data usage.
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Von: Research data publication: announcements and discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von James Frew
Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013 01:13
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Betreff: Re: Registrastion for access to data
On 2013-05-20 09:06, Joe Hourcle wrote:
> On May 20, 2013, at 11:17 AM, James Frew wrote:
>> Citations to your data in published research are *way* more impressive than anecdotal "nuggets". And tracking DOIs will make it obvious who your *real* users are.
> We should be careful about saying that only one group are legitimate users of the data.
Sorry, poor word choice on my part. For *real*, read *unambiguous*, or *verifiable*, or some such.
I'd be the last person to call any particular use "illegitimate" or "invalid".
I would argue, however, that serendipitous users are even more likely than target users to be deterred by having to register.
/Frew
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