edu.ucar.opensky::articles:26893 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T02:28:15.681448 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7rf605z Open data: Accountability and transparency 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7rf605z https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717718853 Mayernik, Matthew author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The movements by national governments, funding agencies, universities, and research communities toward "open data"' face many difficult challenges. In high-level visions of open data, researchers' data and metadata practices are expected to be robust and structured. The integration of the internet into scientific institutions amplifies these expectations. When examined critically, however, the data and metadata practices of scholarly researchers often appear incomplete or deficient. The concepts of "accountability"' and "transparency" provide insight in understanding these perceived gaps. Researchers' primary accountabilities are related to meeting the expectations of research competency, not to external standards of data deposition or metadata creation. Likewise, making data open in a transparent way can involve a significant investment of time and resources with no obvious benefits. This paper uses differing notions of accountability and transparency to conceptualize "open data"' as the result of ongoing achievements, not one-time acts. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation