"a toolkit for digital research" - cni 2013
DESCRIPTION
A more in-depth look at three tools supported by Digital Science: figshare, Altmetric, and Symplectic Elements.TRANSCRIPT
a toolkit for digital research
kaitlin thaney@kaythaney ; @digitalsci#cni13s, san antonio, tx
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london
boston
new york
tokyo
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T[citable, sharable, discoverable]ext
figshare.com ; @figshare
3 Gb/year
9 Gb/PhD3 Gb/year
30,000,000 Gb/all*9 Gb/PhD3 Gb/year
* roughly
how much made available?
9 Gb/PhD3 Gb/year
* roughly
30,000,000 Gb/all*
A cloud based research data management system where you can:
Manage your research outputs privately and
securely
Make your research outputs citable, sharable,
discoverable
capturing necessary context(minimising burden)
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
• csv • tsv • xls • xlsx • ptt • ods • aac • 3g2 • WebM • mpeg4 • 3gpp • mov • avi • mpeg • wmv • flv • mp3 • mp4
• f4v • m4a • doc • docx • png • jpg • jpeg • txt • bmp • djvu • eps • fa • faa • fasta • ffn • frn • fna • pdf
• svg • tif • tiff • gif • ppt • pptx • nex • odt • rtf • pps • seq • xml • vaxml • tnt • sxw • zip • tar • ...& more
Some of the formats we visualise formats accepted / visualised
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.
the figshare desktop uploader allows for quick and easy upload of your
research outputs, straight from your desktop. users can upload as many files as they want at once and the
uploader supports resumable uploads (so you’re safe if your connection
drops).
all files private space at first, where you can choose whether to make
them public.
desktop uploader
API
The figshare API allows you to push data to figshare, or pull data out. This first version is a basic implementation that allows you to manage your figshare account or build applications on top of the figshare platform and public research.
easy data access (in/out) via the API
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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rewards, incentives the “social issue”
administrators / funders as influencers
drivers of behavioral change
existing system is imperfect
we can/need to do better.
Citations Altmetrics
Slow to accrue (> 1yr) Quick to accrue (hours)
Low volume High volume
Impact amongst authors Impact anywhere
time, breadth, comprehensiveness
<quick bit of history>
altmetricsAlternative metrics
Alternative to only looking at citations (complement to, not replacement for bibliometrics)
Manifesto (by Priem, Neylon, Groth, Taborelli) at altmetrics.org - we didn’t coin the phrase
altmetric(london startup)
altmetric.com ; @altmetric
right now...
“Altmetrics” generally refers to tracking online attention (esp. social media) data to try and get
an idea of the wider impact of scholarly research.
altmetrics tools
Altmetric.com
beyond the ivory tower
unified view, use lowest common denominator
make it easy to understand
data is made available through an API
http://api.altmetric.com/v1/doi/xxx
http://api.altmetric.com/v1/citations/1w?cited_in=linkedin
http://api.altmetric.com/v1/citations/1w?issns=1098-4275
use by institutional repositories is free. Explorer accounts also free for academic librarians to use however they wish.
we charge commercial publishers for more detailed data and sell site license access to the Explorer app.
the business model question ...
why should I use altmetrics, and what for?
use data for discovery / analysis
let authors see who is discussing their work
City University London
for readers
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http://www.symplectic.co.uk@symplectic_US ; @symplectic_UK
automatically acquire, de-dupe,
disambiguate
available for repository deposit?
coauthorship, insights
integrations to add context
repurpose and reuse data, increase visibility
interoperability is key
encourage best practice at the university
questions?
more at digital-science.com/products
[email protected]@kaythaney