data papers in the network era, by mackenzie smith, mit libraries

Data Papers in the Network Era

MacKenzie SmithResearch Director, MIT Libraries

WHY DATA SHARING IS IMPORTANT

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“The NIH expects and supports the timely release and sharing of final research data from NIH-supported studies for use by other researchers.

“Starting with the October 1, 2003 receipt date, investigators submitting an NIH application seeking $500,000 or more in direct costs in any single year are expected to include a plan for data sharing or state why data sharing is not possible.”

Application Guide for NIH and Other PHS Agencies

“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. Grantees* are expected to encourage and facilitate such sharing.”

* Grantee = Research University or similar

“Proposals must include a supplementary document of no more than two pages labeled “Data Management Plan””

including…

policies for access and sharing including provisions for appropriate protection of privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual property, or other rights or requirements;

policies and provisions for re-use, re-distribution, and the production of derivatives;

NSF Grant Proposal Guide, January 2011

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WHY DATA SHARING IS DIFFICULT

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REUSABLE DATA IS….

structured, versioned and well-documented

formatted for long-term access

archived (backed up and secure)

findable and citable

legally unrestricted or clear usage policy

CONSIDER THE DATA PAPER

Data Paper

“a formal publication whose primary purpose is to expose and describe data, as opposed to analyze and draw conclusions from it.”

http://neurocommons.org/report/data-publication.pdf

“The objective of the Journal is to provide critically evaluated physical and chemical property data, fully documented as to the original sources and the criteria used for evaluation, preferably with uncertainty analysis.”

J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 40, 033101 (2011)© 2011 American Institute of Physics

FIG. 1. Temperature and pressure ranges of the experimental thermal conductivity data for normal hydrogen.

1. Organize peer-review, establish quality-control measures

2. Create citable entity

3. Establish cross-linking mechanisms with traditional papers, to enforce separation of concerns (methodology vs analysis)

4. Specify required documentation to make data re-usable, re-purposable

5. Apply standard interoperable legal license (CC0 or PDDL with normative attribution or CC-By with URI attribution)

6. Ensure archiving strategy in place

DATA PUBLISHING INFRASTRUCTURE

WEB IDENTIFIERS

I2 (Institutional Identifiers)

WEB DATA STANDARDS

WEB VISUALIZATION TOOLS

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES?

Institutions

Publishers

ResearchGroups

Scholarly Societies

FundersTech Companies

Data Centers

APS, ACS, ACM, Sage Commons

Libraries, IT Centers,

Research Admin

e.g. Microsoft, Oracle

Mendeley, Zotero

Governments, Foundations

institutional, disciplinary, commercial

Springer,Nature, BMC,

PLoS, WoS

ROLES

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