Data Archive of the Animal Cognition Lab

University of Georgia

Catalog Number: 0010

Title: Data Archiving in Animal Experimentation: Merits, Challenges, and a Case Study

Reference: Crystal, J.D. (2004). Data Archiving in Animal Experimentation: Merits, Challenges, and a Case Study. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 656-660.

Note: NASA is acknowledged as the source of the data. The raw data are available at http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov.

ABSTRACT

Electronic data archives may supplement the traditional peer-reviewed journal article. The merits of data archiving include public service, a more complete research project, overcoming barriers to limited access research resources, and increasing the impact of a scientific project. A case study of chimpanzee timing performance in space is derived from the NASA Life Sciences Data Archive (http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov). An analysis of the archived data suggests that the scalar property (a form of Weber’s law) applies to time performance of a chimpanzee in orbit of the earth. Challenges associated with data archives are discussed. Although there are significant challenges associated with electronic data archives, these difficulties are outweighed by the merits of archiving data.

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Last updated 3 August 2004