Data Librarians in Public Libraries

What would a data librarian look like in a public library?

A question and answer from the creator of databrarians.org - http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2015/05/data-librarians-in-public-libraries/

Datacite and DOI Names for Research Data

A recent paper by Janna Neumann and Jan Brase: Neumann J, Brase J. Datacite and DOI Names for Research Data. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 2014 2014/10/01;28(10):1035-1041. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10822-014-9776-5

To Share or not to Share? That is the (Research Data) Question

While not specifically about data citation, this post on The Scholarly Kitchen presenting results of a survey undertaken by Wiley on how and why researchers share data is likely to be of interest to this community. I'll look forward to seeing the report ...

Data citation article in special OA issue of Learned Publishing

Callaghan S. Preserving the Integrity of the Scientific Record: Data Citation and Linking. Learned Publishing. 2014;27(5):15-24.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2014/00000027/00000005/art00004http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20140504

The topic of this special issue of Learned Publishing is data publishing, and all content of the issue is open access; included are an article on the Research Data Alliance by Andrew Treloar, one on altmetrics, and one on libraries and librarians in data management (there are others, as well).
Table of Contents: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2014/00000027/00000005

DataCite records in the Data Citation Index

Thomson Reuters Collaborates with DataCite to Expand Discovery of Research Data

http://thomsonreuters.com/press-releases/082014/datacite-research-discovery

DOIs for data and software

Exciting to see DOIs and citations for related software and data in this recently released paper by Alex Whan (CSIRO) et al in "Plant Methods".   Scroll down the reference list to entries 32 & 33 to see data citation in action.

http://www.plantmethods.com/content/10/1/23

Interesting that the publisher has chosen an alternative to the citation format recommended by DataCite, but the presence of a  DOI will help with tracking reuse and citation metrics.

Infographic: Understanding Metadata

If you've ever struggled with the concept of metadata this quick reference guide is your new go to! This graphic provides a simple and high-level overview of how you can use metadata to improve your research data.

http://www.ersa.edu.au/enewsjune2014/understanding-metadata
Download a copy of the Understanding Metadata infographic (JPG 355KB)

Altmetric launches Altmetric for Institutions

 ... a web-based software application that enables higher educational institutions to track and evaluate the online dissemination and impact of their authored research. Altmetric collates mentions of scholarly articles across traditional and social media, blog posts, reference management tools and post-publication peer review sites. 
http://www.digital-science.com/blog/posts/altmetric-launches-altmetric-for-institutions

Research Trends Special Issue on altmetrics

From the editorial:

"This special issue of Research Trends is dedicated to altmetrics, or, as some may prefer, alternative metrics. The growing interest in the development of alternative measurements of scientific productivity resulted in the 2010 Altmetrics manifesto in which the term “altmetrics” was introduced... We believe the contributions in this Special Issue cover the major trends in the development of new metrics, and are written by leading researchers in the field."

Scientific Data launches its first batch of "data descriptors"

Scientific Data, the latest offering from the Nature Publishing Group, was launched earlier this week: http://www.nature.com/sdata/. I'm particularly pleased to see the dedicated Data Citations section; of course, there are multiple ways to present data citations (within References, within Acknowledgements), but this method brings visibility to this practice.
The featured dataset is coordinated by Australian researchers (Uni of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.

Fantastic short video on DOIs and data citation

This one comes from The Netherlands and it's brilliant.  A succinct, clear explanation. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgqtiY7oZ6k

New video shows how to cite data from UK Data Service

Data are a vital part of the scientific research process. By properly citing data in research publications, it not only acknowledges sources, it also makes it easier for others to find and use the data. Citation is also expected practice for those who receive funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and becoming best practice across the social sciences.

Now a new video tutorial shows data users how to retrieve citation information directly from UK Data Service resources. This step-by-step guide covers all data available through the Discover data catalogue, including UK Census data (whether downloaded or used online) and data from international databanks such as the World Bank or International Monetary Fund.

The video tutorial complements our website guidance on Citing data and the ESRC brochure Data Citation: What you need to know. All are available at the links below.

• Video: Citing data from the UK Data Service  http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/videos/tutorials.aspx#citing
• Website guidance: Citing data http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/use-data/citing-data.aspx
• ESRC brochure: Data citation: What you need to know http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/media/104397/data_citation_online.pdf

Global-level data sets may be more highly cited than most journal articles.

Global-level data sets may be more highly cited than most journal articles.

 Chris Belter measured the impact of a few openly accessible data sets and compared to journal articles in his field. His results provide hard evidence that the production, archival, and sharing of data may actually be a more effective way to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Blog 

Supporting Scientific Discovery through Norms and Practices for Software and Data Citation and Attribution

Dear Colleague Letter - Supporting Scientific Discovery through Norms and Practices for Software and Data Citation and Attribution
This is interesting - NSF fundining research into data citation and impact metrics. This is a particularly interesting angle that they suggest research into:

"Citation patterns that include a role for citations (e.g. to value activities such as “data provider/curator” and/or “software tool provider” alongside “data analyzer” or “computational modeler”), which can help create a credit market for data and software sharing "


 Thanks Natasha Simons for passing this on.

Peer review of datasets

Mayernik MS, Callaghan S, Leigh R, Tedds J, Worley S. 2014. Peer Review of Datasets: When, Why, and How. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00083.1

This one from the Data Publication JISCmail list

More on the data citation joint declaration principles

Thanks to Natasha for sharing this recent presentation by Joan Starr on the data citation joint declaration principles.  Well worth a look.

http://www.slideshare.net/joanstarr/data-citation-a-joint-declaration-of-principles

DOIs for GitHub repositories

https://github.com/blog/1840-improving-github-for-science

Citable code for academic software

"Sharing your work is good, but collaborating while also getting required academic credit is even better. Over the past couple of months we've been working with the Mozilla Science Lab and data archivers, Figshare and Zenodo, to make it possible to get a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for any GitHub repository."

Data Citation post on Data Pub

Data Citation post on California Digital Library's Data Pub blog

Hat tip to Sue Cook for this one:  a great resource on data citation basics with references and inclusion of dynamic data citation and "deep" citation (citing part of a dataset)

Data publication consensus and controversies

From JISC's DATA PUBLICATION email list, this article, complete with available referees comments:
Kratz J and Strasser C (2014) Data publication consensus and controversies [v1; ref status: approved with reservations 1, http://f1000r.es/3ag] F1000Research 2014, 3:94 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.4264)
http://f1000research.com/articles/3-94/v1#article-reports

This provides excellent coverage of the current state of data publication; and yay! data citation is fairly advanced, with consensus

Survey for Wellcome Trust: Enhancing Discoverab​ility of Public Health and Epidemiolo​gy Research Data

Interesting (and good) to see that the survey includes a section on data citation

Survey: https://epilab.ich.ucl.ac.uk/redcap/surveys/?s=ewIV2V4Csw

Nature News: Funders punish open-access dodgers

For years, two of the world’s largest research funders — the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom — have issued a steady stream of incentives to coax academics to abide by their open-access policies.
Now they are done with just dangling carrots. Both institutions are bringing out the sticks: cautiously and discreetly cracking down on researchers who do not make their papers publicly available.

http://www.nature.com/news/funders-punish-open-access-dodgers-1.15007

Will data be next?

Citation analysis of oceanographic data sets (and its in PLoS ONE, so it's OA!)

BELTER, C. W. 2014. Measuring the Value of Research Data: A Citation Analysis of Oceanographic Data Sets. PLoS ONE, 9, e92590.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092590 


Related tweet: https://twitter.com/Impactstory/status/449281205276405760

Thanks to Sue Cook for this one!

Scalable data citation in dynamic, large databases

Proll, S. & Rauber, A. 2013. Scalable data citation in dynamic, large databases: Model and reference implementation. In:  2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 6-9 Oct. 2013. 307-312.  10.1109/BigData.2013.6691588 

This makes for interesting reading, and poses one solution for citing data in dynamic databases.

Burn it all down

Hugh Rundle says 'The age of library technicians and cataloguers is over, and shiny new librarians can’t solve our problems if they’re not supported by bold leaders and managers. What we need now is metadata managers'. hughrundle.net | 28 May 2015

http://www.nature.com/news/data-overprotection-1.17825?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150625

Data overprotection

Draft European rules governing privacy threaten to hamper medical research.

23 June 2015

"The regulations proposed in 2012 by the commission allow the use of personal data only after an individual has given “specific, informed and explicit” consent. It is, after all, directed primarily at potential misuse of data gathered at websites or apps such as Facebook. But it made exceptions for health research because it recognized that such work depends on broad models of consent in which participants can agree for their data to be used in a variety of research studies, and that — subject to suitable safeguards — the data can be stored for future use.

Parliamentary amendments agreed last year changed the emphasis, and in doing so removed the exemption for research. If accepted, the amendments would require consent from participants for each new study. That would impede research."

DataQ launched

One to watch ...

A collaboration platform for community development around research data for academic librarians (US)

More at: http://researchdataq.org/index.html

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Have a data management question, but not sure who to ask for help? Ask DataQ!

DataQ is a collaborative platform and community aimed at addressing research data questions in academic libraries. As we approach the launch of the DataQ site this summer, the DataQ editorial team is interested in hearing your research data questions and the questions of your constituents. 

Does the number of potential domain repositories make your head spin? Not sure how to help with a data management plan? Unclear on the nuances of DOIs, Handles, ARKs, and all that? Ask DataQ - we can help!

Submit your questions to DataQ at ResearchDataQ.org and our editorial team of experts will craft a response to share with the community. 

Look for another message once the site is live and the community’s questions and answers are posted. 

The DataQ project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Sparks! Ignition Grant for Libraries SP-02-14-0020-14.

Have a question about asking questions at DataQ? A project update can be found at the ResearchDataQ.org site. 

Data Access Plans

http://www.nature.com/news/funders-must-encourage-scientists-to-share-1.17718?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150611

"Today, we publish our recommendations (see www.wellcome.ac.uk/EAGDA). They are aimed at research funders, who are best placed to implement them. But we hope that all researchers will find them useful. A key recommendation is that data-access plans should be integral to the grant-application process."

An upgrade from the Data management plan to the Data ACCESS plan.

Would you like a video with that (data)?

Here’s something interesting:

A YouTube video made in conjunction with the paper, “A network framework of cultural history”, published in Science last year gets almost 1 million hits.  They sourced their data from Freebase.com, the General Artist Lexicon and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.

Wow … enjoy...

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6196/558.full?ijkey=vY7vVRI0FczsQ&keytype=ref&siteid=sci 

http://www.cultsci.net/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIhRkCcD4U