Seven rules of successful research data management in universities. The availability of research data – the digital data or analogue sources that underpin research findings – is high on the agenda of higher education policy makers, funders and researchers committed to open practice.
Sound research rests on the ability to evidence, verify and reproduce results. If this sounds obvious, the practice of making reseach data available is surprisingly limited. Take the recent case of the 2010 Reinhart-Rogoff paper on economic growth that was found to contain errors and the exclusion of some data that significantly undermined the results.
The results were published in a prestigious journal, the American Economic Review, that seemingly failed to enforce its own data availability policy, which meant it was only this year that these errors were discovered. The drivers for greater research data availability are not just to do with verifying results and uncovering errors. Let's be clear though, not all research data can or should be made openly available. The Open Data Movement. SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData - W3C Wiki. News 2014-12-03: The 8th edition of the Linked Data on the Web workshop will take place at WWW2015 in Florence, Italy.
The paper submission deadline for the workshop is 15 March, 2015. 2014-09-10: An updated version of the LOD Cloud diagram has been published. The new version contains 570 linked datasets which are connected by 2909 linksets. New statistics about the adoption of the Linked Data best practices are found in an updated version of the State of the LOD Cloud document. 2014-04-26: The 7th edition of the Linked Data on the Web workshop took place at WWW2014 in Seoul, Korea. The workshop was attended by around 80 people. Project Description The Open Data Movement aims at making data freely available to everyone. The goal of the W3C SWEO Linking Open Data community project is to extend the Web with a data commons by publishing various open data sets as RDF on the Web and by setting RDF links between data items from different data sources. Clickable version of this diagram. Demos. Open Consortium. Scientific Data. Science Commons. The more we understand about science and its complexities, the more important it is for scientific data to be shared openly.
It’s not useful to have ten different labs doing the same research and not sharing their results; likewise, we’re much more likely to be able to pinpoint diseases if we have genomic data from a large pool of individuals. Since 2004, we’ve been focusing our efforts to expand the use of Creative Commons licenses to scientific and technical research. Science Advisory Board Open Access The Scholars’ Copyright Project Creative Commons plays an instrumental role in the Open Access movement, which is making scholarly research and journals more widely available on the Web. We’re also expanding Open Access to research institutions. We’ve created policy briefings and guidelines to help institutions implement Open Access into their frameworks. Open Data At Creative Commons, we believe scientific data should be freely available to everyone.
Learn more. The Digital Object Identifier System. Www.datacite.org - Welcome to DataCite. National e-Science Centre.