Open data and digital morphology

International audience; Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the study of living and fossil organisms. However, the initial promise that the widespread application of such methods would facilitate access to the underlying digital data has not been fully achieved. The underlying datasets for many published studies are not readily or freely available, introducing a barrier to verification and reproducibility, and the reuse of data. There is no current agreement or policy on the amount and type of data that should be made available alongside studies that use, and in some cases…

Studying bipedal dinosaur trackways using geometric morphometrics

Grist for Riedl's mill: A network model perspective on the integration and modularity of the human skull

This research project was supported by Grant BFU2008‐00643 to D.R.G. from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion as well as project CGL2012‐37279 to M.B., from the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad.

Table S1 from Open data and digital morphology

Summary of main online repositories for 3D digital morphological data.