juillet 2014

31/07/2014

International Survey of Academic Library Data Curation Practices, 2014-15 Edition

« This 100+ page report looks closely at the data curation and management practices of 17 colleges and universities including the University of Surrey, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Toronto, the University of Brasilia, Colorado State University and many others. The report covers how…

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31/07/2014

Building a Disciplinary Metadata Standards Directory – Alexander Ball, Sean Chen, Jane Greenberg, Cristina Perez, Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela

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The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Metadata Standards Directory Working Group (MSDWG) is building a directory of descriptive, discipline-specific metadata standards. The purpose of the directory is to promote the discovery, access and use of such standards, thereby improving the state of research data interoperability and reducing duplicative…

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31/07/2014

Persistent Identifiers for Scholarly Assets and the Web: The Need for an Unambiguous Mapping – Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, Harihar Shankar, Martin Klein

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Persistent IDentifiers (PIDs), such as DOIs, Handles and ARK identifiers, play a significant role in the identification of a wide variety of assets that are created and used in scholarly endeavours, including research papers, datasets, images, etc. Motivated by concerns about long-term persistence, among others, PIDs are…

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29/07/2014

Data Producers Courting Data Reusers: Two Cases from Modeling Communities – Jillian Wallis

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Data sharing is a difficult process for both the data producer and the data reuser. Both parties are faced with more disincentives than incentives. Data producers need to sink time and resources into adding metadata for data to be findable and usable, and there is no promise…

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29/07/2014

Guidelines on Recommending Data Repositories as Partners in Publishing Research Data – Sarah Callaghan, Jonathan Tedds, John Kunze, Varsha Khodiyar, Rebecca Lawrence, Matthew Mayernik, Fiona Murphy, Timothy Roberts, Angus Whyte

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This document summarises guidelines produced by the UK Jisc-funded PREPARDE data publication project on the key issues of repository accreditation. It aims to lay out the principles and the requirements for data repositories intent on providing a dataset as part of the research record and as part…

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29/07/2014

Cross-Linking Between Journal Publications and Data Repositories: A Selection of Examples – Sarah Callaghan, Jonathan Tedds, Rebecca Lawrence, Fiona Murphy, Timothy Roberts, Will Wilcox

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This article provides a selection of examples of the many ways that a link can be made between a journal article (whether in a data journal or otherwise) and a dataset held in a data repository. In some cases the method of linking is well established, while…

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29/07/2014

Building a Bridge Between Journal Articles and Research Data: The PKP-Dataverse Integration Project – Eleni Castro, Alex Garnett

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A growing number of funding agencies and international scholarly organizations are requesting that research data be made more openly available to help validate and advance scientific research. Thus, this is an opportune moment for research data repositories to partner with journal editors and publishers in order to…

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