From Evoio

TDWG Report

BMC article

To do

• Arlin & Brian will work out lit analysis protocol
• Brian will draft sections #2 and #4 before Thurs 31 Mar
• Arlin will draft sectnos #1, #3, #5 by Thurs 31 Mar

Resources

• description of BMC best practices series
• User stories

Outline

1. there are incentives to archive (Arlin)
   • recognition (Piwowar)
   • archiving trees is a recommended or required policy (jrnl policies, agency policies)
2. current practices for archiving trees (or associated data) (Brian)
   • file formats
   • supported by several resources (TreeBASE, Dryad, phylografter, morphobank?), journal web sites.
   • what to expect, how to do it
     • there are some restrictions in how this happens, tb : nexus
3. current barriers to re-use (Arlin)
   • make use of user stories from MIAPA survey team
4. current best practices for doing this (Brian)
   • there are no disciplinary standards for this.
   • recommendations for trees associated with publications
   • recommendations for archives
   • recommendations for other online resources e.g., iPlant, ToLWeb,
5. future (Arlin)
   • how standards emerge (resources, tools, stakeholder groups)
   • prospects for data sharing & reuse
     • supertrees & supermatrices
     • species trees for reconcile-tree problem
     • alignment re-use
     • species trees for character reconstruction & systematics
6. Appendices and supporting material