"A Toolkit for Digital Research" - CNI 2013

a toolkit for digital research

kaitlin thaney@kaythaney ; @digitalsci#cni13s, san antonio, tx

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london

boston

new york

tokyo

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T[citable, sharable, discoverable]ext

figshare.com ; @figshare

3 Gb/year

9 Gb/PhD3 Gb/year

30,000,000 Gb/all*9 Gb/PhD3 Gb/year

* roughly

how much made available?

9 Gb/PhD3 Gb/year

* roughly

30,000,000 Gb/all*

A cloud based research data management system where you can:

Manage your research outputs privately and

securely

Make your research outputs citable, sharable,

discoverable

capturing necessary context(minimising burden)

Backed up in multiple institutions around the world

DOIs provided by DataCite at the California Digital Library

Adhere to ethics of academic publishing, as per guidelines

ORCID launch partner, files to be pushed to author profiles

All content hosted on AWS with triple file storage, fast load times and unbeatable uptime

• csv • tsv • xls • xlsx • ptt • ods • aac • 3g2 • WebM • mpeg4 • 3gpp • mov • avi • mpeg • wmv • flv • mp3 • mp4

• f4v • m4a • doc • docx • png • jpg • jpeg • txt • bmp • djvu • eps • fa • faa • fasta • ffn • frn • fna • pdf

• svg • tif • tiff • gif • ppt • pptx • nex • odt • rtf • pps • seq • xml • vaxml • tnt • sxw • zip • tar • ...& more

Some of the formats we visualise formats accepted / visualised

Desktop Uploader

The figshare desktop uploader allows for quick and easy upload of your research outputs, straight from your desktop. You can upload many files at once and the uploader supports resumable uploads. This means if your internet connection drops, you don’t need to start the uploads again.

All files are uploaded into your private space on figshare, where you can chose whether to make them public or manage them privately.

the figshare desktop uploader allows for quick and easy upload of your

research outputs, straight from your desktop. users can upload as many files as they want at once and the

uploader supports resumable uploads (so you’re safe if your connection

drops).

all files private space at first, where you can choose whether to make

them public.

desktop uploader

API

The figshare API allows you to push data to figshare, or pull data out. This first version is a basic implementation that allows you to manage your figshare account or build applications on top of the figshare platform and public research.

easy data access (in/out) via the API

figshare for Institutions

•  Large amounts of secure private storage space and unlimited public space.

•  Detailed metrics on publicly available data.

•  Ability to push research to any internal repository.

•  Subject categorisation per department.

•  Collaborative spaces. •  Create your own institutional repo:

institution.figshare.com •  All data is citable, visualisable, embeddable

and trackable.

•  Can be used securely by any number of users.

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rewards, incentives the “social issue”

administrators / funders as influencers

drivers of behavioral change

existing system is imperfect

we can/need to do better.

Citations Altmetrics

Slow to accrue (> 1yr) Quick to accrue (hours)

Low volume High volume

Impact amongst authors Impact anywhere

time, breadth, comprehensiveness

<quick bit of history>

altmetricsAlternative metrics

Alternative to only looking at citations (complement to, not replacement for bibliometrics)

Manifesto (by Priem, Neylon, Groth, Taborelli) at altmetrics.org - we didn’t coin the phrase

altmetric(london startup)

altmetric.com ; @altmetric

right now...

“Altmetrics” generally refers to tracking online attention (esp. social media) data to try and get

an idea of the wider impact of scholarly research.

altmetrics tools

Altmetric.com

beyond the ivory tower

unified view, use lowest common denominator

make it easy to understand

data is made available through an API

http://api.altmetric.com/v1/doi/xxx

http://api.altmetric.com/v1/citations/1w?cited_in=linkedin

http://api.altmetric.com/v1/citations/1w?issns=1098-4275

use by institutional repositories is free. Explorer accounts also free for academic librarians to use however they wish.

we charge commercial publishers for more detailed data and sell site license access to the Explorer app.

the business model question ...

why should I use altmetrics, and what for?

use data for discovery / analysis

let authors see who is discussing their work

City University London

for readers

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http://www.symplectic.co.uk@symplectic_US ; @symplectic_UK

automatically acquire, de-dupe,

disambiguate

available for repository deposit?

coauthorship, insights

integrations to add context

repurpose and reuse data, increase visibility

interoperability is key

encourage best practice at the university

questions?

more at digital-science.com/products

kaitlin@digital-science.com@kaythaney