Archiving and publication of research data - a gap in scholarly communication Chairs: Eefke Smit (STM) Jonathan Tedds (University of Leicester) Michael Diepenbroek (PANGAEA/ICSU-WDS) - presenter
Data is important but hard to find
Data is important, but hard to find
Publishing Research Consortium, 2010 Researchers, N = 3824
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• Citable & persistent (DOI) • CC-BY License • Quality data QA/QC -> review procedures
• Efficient usage (Meta)data & interoperability standards
(mashine readable)
• FITNESS OF USE!
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OECD principles and guidelines for access to research data (2007)
The Long Tail of Data Fi
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Total volume of scientific data
Professionally managed & published data Large scale monitoring & computed data & disciplinary data centers
Unmanaged & non-public data Data from individual scientists, labs, or smaller projects
Unmanaged open access data
WDS/RDA data publishing interest group Fi
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Total volume of scientific data
• Publishing workflows • Publishing services • Bibliometrics (Incentives) • Cost compensation
Collaboration between data archives & science journals
linking editorial workflows linking services
WDS/RDA Data Publishing Group
• Research facilities • Data repositories • Universities • Libraries • Publishing Industry