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Frighteningly SaneorThe first steps to Madness?
Research can be defined to be search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts.
And to establish facts, one needs Data.
Nearly 18,000 journals600 trade publications350 book series 3,6 million conference papers38 million records from 199619 million pre-1996 recordsResults from 435 million scientific web pages 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices
Finding Research
From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
And to establish facts, one needs Data.
Source: crossref.org on June 3rd 2010
. . . to scholarly articles and book chapters . . .
Linking Research
And to establish facts, one needs Data.
Conclusion: You can stand on the shoulders of giants . . .
. . . but it seems you have to do so without data.
Datasets:Scholarly Publishing’s Lost Sheep?
By creating metadata for: Datasets
In the same industry standard formats as . . .Book chapters
andJournal articles
Authors will be able to cite . . .
Publishers will be able to link . . .
Discovery systems will be able to find . . .
Librarians will be able to catalogue . .
.
Datasets alongside published outputs . . .
. . . to the benefit of Everyone
A proposed presentation of a dataset using standard bibliographic and citation metadata.
Bibliography of Books that
cite this database
Citation tool compatible with EndNotes et al
Dataset title with ISSN,
DOI (& MARC) record
And here's how . . . . . . it can be done
Learn more Green. T, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables, OECD Publishing White Paper , revised 2010http://doi.org/abr
Citing datasets:Frighteningly Saneor the first steps to Madness?
wilbanks:"cite this database" button from the OECD. make it easy to cite, not illegal to copy. frighteningly sane. #NASEJ, Twitter March 24th 2010
Same Data: Many renditions
Dynamic ‘cube’ Snapshot in Excel
Dynamic visualisationPrint
App
USB Key
3 Citation challenges:1. Dynamic datasets (where new data is added all the time)
2. Same data, different rendition – i.e. print, App and online
3. The Russian Doll problem
Thank you
Toby GreenHead of Publishing, [email protected]