[Go-essp-tech] What is the risk that science is done using 'deprecated' data?

[Kettleborough, Jamie]

Hello,

Does anyone have a feel for the current level of risk that analysists
are doing work (with the intention to publish) on data that has been
found to be wrong by the data providers and so deprecated (in some
sense)?

My feeling is that versioning isn't working (that may be putting it a
bit strongly.  It is too easy for data providers - in their
understandable drive to get their data out - to have updated files on
disk without publishing a new version.   How big a deal does anyone
think this is?

If the risk that papers are being written based on deprecated data is
sufficiently large then is there an agreed strategy for coping with
this?  Does it have implications for the requirements of the data
publishing/delivery system?

Thanks,

Jamie