Open Data
‘Viva la evolution’
Mark Hahnel
@MarkHahnel
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Why Open Data? - Open Government Data
•Transparency and democratic control
•Participation
•Self-empowerment
•Improved or new private products and services
•Innovation
•Improved efficiency of government services
•Improved effectiveness of government services
•Impact measurement of policies
•New knowledge from combined data sources and patterns in large data volumes
Growth of Open Access - Major Publishers. Cameron Neylon. figshare.http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.650799
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"Products of research are not just publications.”NSF senior policy specialist Beth Strausser.
Biographical Sketch(es), has been revised to rename the “Publications” section to “Products” and amend terminology and instructions accordingly.
13 January 2013: "National Science Foundation’s Merit Review Criteria: Review and Revisions” Chapter II.C.2.f(i)(c),
“But taxpayers who are paying for that research will want to see something back. Directly – through open access to results and data. And indirectly – through making science work better for all of us.
That’s why we will require open access to all publications stemming from EU-funded research. That’s why we will progressively open access to the research data, too. And why we’re asking national funding bodies to do the same.”
Neelie Kroes.
Vice President for the Eurpoean Commission
“Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of work under NSF grants”
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/aag_6.jsp#VID4
“NIH expects the timely release and sharing of data to be no later than the acceptance for publication of the main findings from the final dataset”
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharingdata_sharing_guidance.htm#time
“NEH is committed to timely and rapid data distribution”
http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/data_management_plans_2012.pdf
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“The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research
their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has
directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of
federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better
account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research.”
February 22nd 2013
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• Research Integrity
• Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance
• Funders’ Policies
• As well as moral and ethical obligations, putting all of your research data on figshare can help promote your research and raise your profile
• It has also been reported that 'sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate’
• Simplicity
• Visualisation is cool – in the format I produced it.
Why Open Data? - Open Academic Data
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• Research Integrity
• Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance
• Funders’ Policies
• As well as moral and ethical obligations, putting all of your research data on figshare can help promote your research and raise your profile
• It has also been reported that 'sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate’
• Simplicity
• Visualisation is cool – in the format I produced it.
Why Open Data? - Open Academic Data
21Decoupling the scholarly journal. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 05 April 2012 doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00019 Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger
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So what is innovation in academic publishing?
Some figshare clients
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Persistent identifiers are essential
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Persistent identifiers are essential
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APIs are essential
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Open Access is essential
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Advocacy is essential
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AcademiaGenerating the world’s
knowledge
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Get in touch
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Filters
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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
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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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.
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