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Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Micah Altman, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Prepared for the Board on Research Data and Information “Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards
An International Symposium and Workshop”August 22-23, 2011
Collaborators*
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Leonid Andreev, Ed Bachman, Adam Buchbinder, Ken Bollen, Bryan Beecher, Steve Burling, Kevin Condon, Jonathan Crabtree, Merce Crosas, Gary King, Patrick King, Tom Lipkis, Freeman Lo, Jared Lyle, Marc Maynard, Nancy McGovern, Lois Timms-Ferrarra, Akio Sone, Bob Treacy
Research SupportThanks to the Library of Congress (PA#NDP03-1), the
National Science Foundation (DMS-0835500, SES 0112072), IMLS (LG-05-09-0041-09), the Harvard University Library, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and the Murray Research Archive.
* And co-conspirators
Related Work
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
M. Crosas, 2011, “The Dataverse Network: An Open-Source Application for Sharing, Discovering and Preserving Data”, D-Lib Magazine 17(1/2).
M. Altman,2008, "A Fingerprint Method for Verification of Scientific Data" in, Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, (Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering 2007) , Springer Verlag.
M. Altman and G. King. 2007. “A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data”, D-Lib, 13, 3/4 (March/April).
G. King, 2007, " An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing", Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 173-199
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Some Terminology
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
“dataverse” = a virtual archive“Dataverse Network” = a server“Study” = a work
An Open-Source Application for Publishing, Citing and Discovering
Research Data
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Examples
Josh Angrist’s Dataverse
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Two-for-one
“Data” Citation = Study Citation
Sorta-Kinda-Meta
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Joshua D. Angrist; Eric Bettinger; Erik Bloom; Elizabeth King; Michael Kremer
2008
"Replication data for: Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment”
http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/11298
UNF:3:4v7GYq3uSEeCpk8M567ITw==
Murray Research Archive [Distributor]
V1 [Version]
Author
Date
Title
PersistentID
Required
RecommendedUNF
DDI 2Extensions
What’s a UNF?
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
UNF = “Universal Numeric Fingerprint”=~ Semantic Fingerprint
Variations
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Dataset specific – Same Id,part specified,UNF is for part
state,year,data_access_who [VarGrp/@var(DDI)]; UNF:5:X4QdWp04aCZntvxZKSHLzQ==
Citation for subset of Variables/columns/measures
(NOT observations!)
Proxy Handle
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Use Cases
Contact Us
Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®
Micah Altman
maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu
The Dataverse Network ®
thedata.org