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Mar

Merger of Databib and re3data.org, first version of API available

On the occasion of the Research Data Alliance’s Fifth Plenary Meeting, re3data is pleased to report progress in the consolidation of the Databib and re3data.org initiatives into a shared registry and website and to announce the availability of an Application Programming Interface (API) to enable machine access to the merged registry.

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Oct

survey on current and future evaluation of research data impact

The Research Data Alliance/ World Data Service (RDA/WDS) Publishing Data Bibliometrics Working Group is conducting a survey to investigate the viability of bibliometrics for data. We would like to invite all data producers, users, managers and publishers to complete the survey to tell us how you currently evaluate the impact of data, and how you would wish to do so in the future.

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Sep

A quick look at references to research data repositories

An interesting analysis of the Databib Records by Elsevier.

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Aug

Thomson Reuters Collaborates with DataCite to Expand Discovery of Research Data

Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index cooperation with DataCite guides industry to better discovery, attribution and connectivity to research.

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Aug

Video - Webinar by Jens Klump on managing geolocated data by DOIs and IGSNs

Last week Jens Klump gave a webinar at ANDS on managing geolocated data by DOIs and IGSNs. The 45 min video is now available on YouTube.

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Apr

10th Anniversary of minting DOI for data

The first DOIs for data were minted about ten years ago in the context of the project "Publication and Citation of Primary Research Data (STD-DOI)", which was funded by the German Research Foundation DFG. A study on the feasibility of using DOI for the publication of research data was written in 1998. It is the earliest mention of using DOI for data. The study is now online on the GFZ publications server and can be downloaded. 

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Mar

RDA Third Plenary Meeting

The 3rd Plenary focuses on the theme ‘The Data Sharing Community: Playing YOUR Part’ and is about exploiting RDA’s work to date to its full potential. 

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Mar

DataCite, re3data.org, and Databib Announce Collaboration

Databib and “re3data.org – Registry of Research Data Repositories” are pleased to announce their plan to merge their two projects into one service that will be managed under the auspices of DataCite by the end of 2015.

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Feb

Data Citation Principles ready for endorsement

After 11 months of working together, the Data Citation Synthesis group members have finished the  “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles”. 

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Jan

"Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: The Elsevier Article of the Future Project."

The LIBER Quarterly has released a future article: "Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: The Elsevier Article of the Future Project." 

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Jan

CODATA and the GEO Data Sharing Working Group

Representatives of more than 80 governments and 100 participating organizations are gathering in Geneva this week to renew their commitment to GEO, the Group on Earth Observations, a voluntary intergovernmental initiative launched in 2005, and to agree on plans for the next decade. 

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Dec

The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age

Results reinforce the notion that, in the long term, research data cannot be reliably preserved by individual researchers, and further demonstrate the urgent need for policies mandating data sharing via public archives.

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Nov

Bund und Länder richten Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen ein

Um die vorhandenen vielfältigen Aktivitäten in diesem Bereich besser aufeinander abzustimmen und sie miteinander zu verzahnen, hat die GWK heute beschlossen, einen Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen zunächst als vierjähriges Pilotprojekt einzurichten. 

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Nov

Making Research Data Repositories Visible: The re3data.org Registry

Researchers require infrastructures that ensure a maximum of accessibility, stability and reliability to facilitate working with and sharing of research data. Such infrastructures are being increasingly summarized under the term Research Data Repositories (RDR). The project re3data.org–Registry of Research Data Repositories–has begun to index research data repositories in 2012 and offers researchers, funding organizations, libraries and publishers an overview of the heterogeneous research data repository landscape. 

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Oct

Science is in a reproducibility crisis: How do we resolve it? Phys.org

Phys.org looks at the reproducibility crisis in science and what to do about it.

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Oct

Problems with scientific research: How science goes wrong | The Economist

The Economist takes a look at what goes wrong in science and what should be done about it.

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Jul

Roadmap für Forschungsinfrastrukturen - Pilotprojekt des BMBF

Um in Zukunft die verfügbaren Mittel möglichst effizient einzusetzen und die Realisierung neuer Forschungsinfrastrukturen langfristig vorausschauend planen zu können, hat das BMBF im Jahre 2011 die Pilotphase für die Erstellung einer Roadmap für Forschungsinfrastrukturen gestartet. 

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Jul

DFG legt überarbeitete "Empfehlungen zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis" vor

Die DFG hat eine überarbeitete Fassung der "Empfehlungen zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis" herausgegeben.

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Apr

Reward system for research data required that incorporates data metrics

The report "The Value of Research Data - Metrics for datasets from a cultural and technical point of view" recommends that data sharing and data publication should be more broadly adopted among scholars. 

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Apr

DFG approves new funding programme for research data infrastructures

The Joint Committee of Germany's largest research funding organisation has decided to launch a new funding programme. 

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Mar

"Leitfaden zum Forschungsdaten-Management" analog und digital erhältlich

Der Leitfaden zum Forschungsdaten-Management stellt eine Checkliste und Anleitung bereit, um die wichtigsten Aufgaben und Fragen im Forschungsdaten-Management strukturiert zu beantworten und dessen Umsetzung effizient zu planen.

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Feb

OSTP memo on opening data & publications

On February 22nd the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published a memo on "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research"

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Feb

NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standard for Open Access Metadata and Indicators

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop standardized bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how "open" the item is. 

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Jan

figshare will host data for PLOS

The community-based, open-data platform, figshare, will host the supplemental data for the seven Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals. 

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Jan

Article: The Problem of Data

Jahnke and Asher explore workflows and methodologies at a variety of academic data curation sites, and Keralis delves into the academic milieu of library and information schools that offer instruction in data curation. 

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Jan

Articles connecting to data as a valuable content enrichment for marine scientists

Marine Pollution Bulletin publishes in its newest volume an editorial on how cross-referencing between PANGAEA and ScienceDirect for data deposited at PANGAEA improves visibility and discoverability of both data sets and article.

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Jan

Peer-Reviewed Open Research Data: Results of a Pilot

Peer review of publications is at the core of science and primarily seen as instrument for ensuring research quality. However, it is less common to independently value the quality of the underlying data as well. In the light of the ‘data deluge’ it makes sense to extend peer review to the data itself and this way evaluate the degree to which the data are fit for re-use. 

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Jan

Purdue announces the Data Curation Profiles Directory

Purdue University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of Data Curation Profiles Directory, a new serial publication edited by Jacob Carlson & D. Scott Brandt. 

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Dec

Symposium on Research Data Infrastructures, 22 January 2013

The Symposium on Research Data Infrastructures (FDI2013) is jointly organised by the DFG projects Radieschenre3data.orgKomForEWIG und BoKeLa and will take place on 22 January 2013, from 9:30 – 17:00, at GFZ in Potsdam.

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Nov

BRDI Report Release - Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards

Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards, which explored how to assign credit for data (attribution) and how to reference data (citation) in ways that others can identify, discover, and retrieve them. 

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Nov

A Step-By-Step Guide to Data Management

Here’s a step-by-step guide to thinking about and preparing a DMP. It is based primarily on the DataONE Data Life Cycle and represents a highly condensed version of the DataONE Best Practices Primer.

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Nov

The Law on What Documents Scientists Must Keep and Disclose

Below are some general guidelines for scientists about complying with their document retention and disclosure obligations, both as a matter of routine practice and in the event of legal action. 

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Nov

Rechtliche Probleme der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung wissenschaftlicher Primärdaten

Das Zeitalter der immer weiter fortschreitenden Digitalisierung und die stetige Verbesserung der technischen Rahmenbedingungen bieten Forschungseinrichtung neue Mittel und Wege, ihre gewonnenen Daten zu archivieren und öffentlich zugänglich zu machen. Nicht selten gehen damit rechtliche Problematiken einher.

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Sep

Big Data and the Dawn of the Super Researcher

In separate “big data” presentations at the Digital Preservation 2012 meeting, Myron Guttmann of the National Science Foundation and Leslie Johnston of the Library of Congress described scenarios that seemed futuristic and fantastic but were in fact present-day realities. 

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Sep

Bundeskanzlerin begrüßt freien Zugang zu Forschungsdaten

Im Rahmen des vom Bundeskanzleramt durchgeführten „Zukunftsdialogs“, an dem über 100 Expertinnen und Experten beteiligt waren, schlägt die Arbeitsgruppe „Lernende Gesellschaft“ im Abschlussbericht, welcher der Kanzlerin am 28. August 2012 übergeben wurde, einen freien Zugang zu öffentlich finanzierten Studien- und Forschungsdaten vor. Weiterhin wird empfohlen, bei der Beantragung von Förder- und Forschungsmitteln eine Begründungspflicht einzuführen, sollte der Zugang zu Daten ausnahmsweise nicht vorgesehen sein.

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Aug

NISO and NFAIS Issue Draft for Public Comment of Second Part of Recommended Practice on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have issued a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part B: Technical Recommendations (NISO RP-15-201x) for public comment until September 15, 2012. 

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Jul

Open Access Geoscience Data Journal Launched by Wiley

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has partnered with the Royal Meteorological Society to launch the Geoscience Data Journal as part of the Wiley Open Access publishing program. 

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Jul

Report: The Future of Big Data

Big Data: Experts say new forms of information analysis will help people be more nimble and adaptive, but worry over humans’ capacity to understand and use these new tools well.

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Jul

DFG-Positionspapier zu innovativen Informationsinfrastrukturen für die Forschung

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) setzt sich mit Nachdruck für eine strategische Weiterentwicklung der Informationsinfrastrukturen in Deutschland ein. Das geht aus einem neuen Positionspapier hervor mit dem Titel „Die digitale Transformation weiter gestalten – Der Beitrag der DFG zu einer innovativen Informationsinfrastruktur für die Forschung.

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Jul

DaMaRO (Data Management Rollout in Oxford) Project - update

The full DaMaRO team is now in place: James Wilson (Project Manager), Asif Akram (Developer), and Meriel Patrick (Analyst and Training Officer) started work on the project in April, after the conclusion of the VIDaaS Project. More recently, developer Bhavana Ananda has joined the team, fresh from her work on DataFlow.

A key DaMaRO Project task is the development of a DataFinder tool. This will draw together metadata about datasets hosted around the University of Oxford and beyond, thus providing researchers with a straightforward way of discovering new data that may be of interest. 

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Jul

Dryad button available for your use

Dryad now has a button you can use on your list of publications to indicate that the associated data is in Dryad.

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Jun

Thomson Reuters Unveils Data Citation Index for Discovering Global Data Sets

The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters announced today that it will preview at the American Library Association Conference (ALA) the Data Citation IndexTM, an upcoming research resource within the Web of KnowledgeSM to facilitate the discovery, use and attribution of data sets and data studies, and link those data to peer-reviewed literature.

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Jun

GFZ-Workshop "Elemente einer übergreifenden Forschungsdaten-Infrastruktur: Eine für Alle?"

Am 17.April 2012 fand am GFZ in Potsdam der Experten-Workshop "Elemente einer übergreifenden Forschungsdaten-Infrastruktur: Eine für Alle?" statt.

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Jun

Final report published: Science as an open enterprise

The Science as an open enterprise report highlights the need to grapple with the huge deluge of data created by modern technologies in order to preserve the principle of openness and to exploit data in ways that have the potential to create a second open science revolution. 

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Jun

Joint Statement from DataCite and the International Association of STM Publishers on the Linkability and Citability of Research Data

DataCite and the International Association of STM Publishers are pleased to announce best practice recommendations the two organizations are endorsing to make research data easier to find, link to, re-use and cite.

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Jun

OAIS Reference Modell in deutscher Sprache

In der Reihe „nestor-materialien“ ist soeben die deutschen Übersetzung des OAIS-Referenzmodells erschienen.

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Jun

Knowledge Exchange Workshop “The Costs and Benefits of Keeping Knowledge”

Am 11.06.2012 fand im Rahmen der Norbib-Konferenz in Kopenhagen ein Knowledge Exchange Workshop “The Costs and Benefits of Keeping Knowledge” statt. Auf diesem Workshop wurden verschiedene Kostenmodelle für die Langzeitarchivierung von digitalen Objekten, insbesondere von Forschungsdaten, vorstellt.

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May

Implementing DOIs for Research Data

D-Lib magazine published an article about DOIs for research data:

Research is increasingly collaborative and global in nature, and efforts to manage the vast amounts of research data generated daily require global solutions. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system provides a means of persistent identification of research data collections and datasets that is global, standardised and widely used. 

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May

DOI System ISO Standard published

ISO 26324 Information and documentation -- Digital object identifier system was published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, on May 1, 2012.  The DOI System was approved as an International Standard through ISO in November 2010, but publication was held back awaiting revision by ISO of its generic Registration Authority agreement.  ISO 26324 is the instrument through which the DOI System, developed by the International DOI Foundation (IDF) from 1998, was adopted as an international standard, and IDF is the ISO 26324 Registration Authority.

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May

Data Citation and Publication by NERC's Environmental Data Centres | Ariadne: Web Magazine for Information Professionals

Data are the foundation upon which scientific progress rests. Historically speaking, data were a scarce resource, but one which was (relatively) easy to publish in hard copy, as tables or graphs in journal papers. With modern scientific methods, and the increased ease in collecting and analysing vast quantities of data, there arises a corresponding difficulty in publishing this data in a form that can be considered part of the scientific record.

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Apr

SCAPE: Big Data Meets Digital Preservation

The digital collections of scientific and memory institutions – many of which are already in the petabyte range – are growing larger every day. The fact that the volume of archived digital content worldwide is increasing geometrically, demands that their associated preservation activities become more scalable. The economics of long-term storage and access demand that they become more automated. The present state of the art fails to address the need for scalable automated solutions for tasks like the characterization or migration of very large volumes of digital content. 

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Apr

re3data.org - Development of a Registry of Research Data Repositories

The goal of re3data.org is to create a global registry of research data repositories. The registry will cover research data repositories from different academic disciplines. re3data.org will present repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. In the course of this mission re3data.org aims to promote a culture of sharing, a better understanding of data management as well as increased access and better visibility of research data. 

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Mar

NSF empfiehlt Datenveröffentlichung und Datenzitate in den Geowissenschaften

In einem "Dear Colleague" Letter erinnert das Direktorat Geowissenschaften (GEO) der US National Science Foundation an seine Richtlinien in Bezug auf den offenen Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Daten. 

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Mar

Databib beta is online

Databib is a collaborative, annotated bibliography of primary research data repositories. The beta has just been released, and the developers are asking the community to kick the tires and let them know what you think. Please send your feedback to Michael Witt and the team at Purdue and Penn State at databib@gmail.com.

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Mar

JISC/UMF DataFlow Research Data Management Project Software Release

The JISC/University Modernisation Fund sponsored DataFlow Project at the University of Oxford have completed a beta software release and are looking for test users!

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Mar

Data Management Lifecycle Model

Alex Ball has self-archived Review of Data Management Lifecycle Models in the University of Bath institutional repository.

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Mar

Data Curation Curriculum Search Engine

The Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship has made the Data Curation Curriculum Search engine available.

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Jan

Bibliography on Data Citation

An interesting bibliography on data citation/publication papers has been compiled via the ICSU CODATA Task Group on Data Citation.

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Nov

Data Sharing Effect on Article Citation Rate in Paleoceanography

This analysis tests whether open sharing and linking of supporting data through the PANGAEA® data library measurably increases the citation rate of articles published between 1993 and 2010 in the journal Paleoceanography as reported in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science database. 

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Nov

Linking to Data - Effect on Citation Rates in Astronomy


Is there a difference in citation rates between articles that were published with links to data and articles that were not?

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