Why publishers should open their references | Open Citations and Semantic Publishing. Nature to open its reference list data | Open Citations and Semantic Publishing. Bibliographic references are the links that knit together independent scholarly endeavours. I am thus delighted to announce that Nature Publishing Group, publisher of Nature, Nature Genetics and many other leading journals, has agreed to open its articles’ reference lists, initially for a selected number of NPG journals, and contribute the bibliographic citations contained in these lists as open linked data to an expanded Open Citations Corpus, where they will be freely available for everyone to use in whatever manner they choose.
Preparations to expand the corpus in this manner, by integration with the reference processing pipeline of the CrossRef Cited-By Linking service, will be undertaken over the next six months of this year, and incorporation of the references from the selected NPG journals into the expanded Open Citations Corpus is planned to commence in the first half of 2013. Like it? Hover over "Share" then click "Like"
Home | JISC Open Citations. Stop Hosting Data and Code on your Lab Website. It's happened to all of us. You read about a new tool, database, webservice, software, or some interesting and useful data, but when you browse to there's no trace of what you were looking for. This isn't an uncommon problem. See the following two articles: Schultheiss, Sebastian J., et al. "Persistence and availability of web services in computational biology. " PLoS one 6.9 (2011): e24914. Wren, Jonathan D. "404 not found: the stability and persistence of URLs published in MEDLINE. " The first gives us some alarming statistics. The Wren et al. paper found that of 1630 URLs identified in Pubmed abstracts, only 63% were consistently available.
It's a fact that most of us academics move around a fair amount. I won't spend much time here because most readers here are probably aware of source code repositories for hosting software projects. For everything else there's Figshare. Create an account, and hit the big upload link. Nature Biotechnology's "My data are your data" Once again BioSharing and ISA Commons are highlighted! "Encouraging more broad and inclusive data sharing in today's world will involve concerted community efforts to overcome technical barriers and human foible.
" writes Vivien Marx for a Nature Biotechnology news feature. " In January, over 50 researchers from 30 academic and commercial organizations ..... the Investigation-Study-Assay (ISA) Commons, which promises to streamline data sharing among different databases..In this era of collaborative big science, researchers only move forward by “walking together"..says BioSharing co-founder Susanna-Assunta Sansone of the University of Oxford".
"My data are your data" also features work from other colleagues, such Scott Edmunds (GigaScience, BGI, BMC), Barend Mons (Open PHACTS, NBIC), Stephen Friend (Sage Bionetworks) and many others. What can research data repositories learn from open access? Part 1 | JISC DataPool Project. Institutional research data repositories follow in the wake of the widespread adoption of open access repositories across UK institutions during the last decade. What can these new repositories learn from the experiences of open access, and what pointers can we find for the development of data repositories? In the first part of this post we will consider factors such as policy, infrastructure, workflow and curation. In part 2 we will extend the analysis to rights and user interfaces. It may be a timely moment to reflect. A recent speech by the UK government’s science minister David Willetts prompted renewed excitement over open access, with a forthcoming report to advise on specific actions to be taken to realise more open access.
Open access (OA) repositories, which principally provide free access to an author’s version of published research papers, effectively began with the physics arXiv in 1991. Policy For OA IRs, technology and infrastructure preceded policy. Infrastructure Workflow. What can research data repositories learn from open access? Part 2 | JISC DataPool Project. Open access is finally attracting high-level attention from national governments, but full open access has been a long time arriving despite extensive funding, development and the commitment of many people.
As much of that effort switches towards the implementation of repositories to store, share and publish the research data that informs publications, we are considering what lessons might be learned from open access repositories, so that the path to effective data repositories might be shorter and less fraught. In part 1 the factors considered included policy, infrastructure, workflow and curation. Here in part 2 we look at rights and user interfaces. 2500 Creative Commons Licenses Rights Since open access is indelibly associated with publication, one of the primary impediments to providing open access is transfer of rights to publishers, a practice that has failed to adapt to the digital switch. This is why open access can get mired in discussions about rights. User interfaces Figure 3. Retour sur la journée Info Géo et Open Data, 6 juin, Lyon. La journée organisée le 6 juin à Lyon "Quand Information géographique et Open Data se rencontrent" a rassemblé près de 150 personnes.
Les échanges étaient riches d'enseingement pour les représentants de la communautés Open Data et les géomaticiens venus en nombre. Nous mettons à votre disposition l'ensemble des présentations, page complétée au fur et à mesure, et vous proposerons une synthèse de la journée d'ici quelques jours. Contexte et objectifs : Les acteurs de la géomatique sont pour la plupart impliqués dans des plateformes de mutualisation de l’information géographique et visent des objectifs de coordination, de production et de mise à disposition de données sur leur territoire (Directive Inspire).
Il sont aujourd’hui confrontés à de nouvelles initiatives de diffusion de données dans le cadre des démarches Open Data. Partenaires : Cette journée est organisée par le Pôle Entreprises-Industries d’AFIGEO, l’Association LiberTIC et le Forum OGC France. Synthèse de la journée: Google Refine: An Interesting Take on Data Organization | DCXL. Using Google Refine and taxonomic databases (EOL, NCBI, uBio, WORMS) to clean messy data.
Google Refine is an elegant tool for data cleaning. One of its most powerful features is the ability to call "Reconciliation Services" to help clean data, for example by matching names to external identifiers. Google Refine comes with the ability to use Freebase reconciliation services, but you can also add external services. Inspired by this I've started to implement services to reconcile taxonomic names. The services I've implemented so far are: EOL taxonomy FindIT Names Index How to use reconciliation services. DataPool Steering Group, first meeting | JISC DataPool Project. Before the UK took a break for the Diamond Jubilee weekend, DataPool had an important diary date of its own at the end of May, the first meeting of the project steering group, effectively ending phase 1 of the project.
The steering group includes senior managers and academics from the University of Southampton, and experts in running research data repositories elsewhere. This post collects and links to the documents and evidence that were circulated prior to the meeting or presented at it, and which informed discussion. We conclude by summarising and highlighting some of the main steers and outcomes of the meeting that will direct the project going forward to phase 2. Collected documents for the Steering Group meeting DataPool service model at the University of Southampton A forthcoming report will give more detail on the SharePoint and EPrints developments. Main steers and outcomes So what did we learn from the meeting? Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data Search: finding useful datasets, worldwide. Août III « L’opendata dans tous ses états – Août III 16/08/2010 par Libertic L’opendata dans tous ses Etats Veille Libertic du 9 août au 16 août 2010 Pour commencer, cette information importante: ne manquez plus aucun évènement gouv20 ou opendata en Europe !
Sinon en bref cette semaine, la Sunlight Foundation a publié ses dix principes pour évaluer le niveau d’ouverture d’un gouvernement. Mais les deux gros buzz ont été la publication de deux études. Un autre article qui a fait le tour de la twittosphère, celui du NY Ttimes traitant de l’intérêt du partage des données dans le monde scientifique et du succès d’un projet collaboratif en recherche sur la maladie d’Alzheimer. Au niveau local, en France, c est avec plus d’un an de retard (le délai de transposition était venu à échéance en mai 2009) que le MEEDDM se décide à la transposition de la Directive Européenne Inspire qui contient les éléments sur l’ouverture des données géospatiales. Like this: J'aime chargement… Engaging with research data producers | JISC DataPool Project. Engaging, by bigvern Institutional research data projects such as DataPool and others may focus on concrete outputs such as repositories or policies for research data.
While these will be positive steps, ultimately these projects may be judged on the extent to which they can engage with research data producers and use that to inform the development of the outputs in the longer term. Here I simply want to connect two recent, and quite different, works that may help shape our thinking on engagement. This is a big topic that we will inevitably return to. The two two works I refer to above are: A report Introducing research data, which includes a number of research data case studies at the University of Southampton, and is used as a guide for research students.
This was conceived and developed by colleagues in DataPool.A section (‘What about the data?’) How does this help engagement with data producers? We want to differentiate ‘engaging’ from ‘advocacy’.