Tag Archives: Dryad
Barriers to comprehensive reference availability
Two significant barriers prevent comprehensive reference availability through Crossref. The first barrier First, two-thirds of Crossref’s publisher-members, in particular the smaller ones, do not submit references along with the other details of their publications. Many of these published works are of … Continue reading
IBRG projects to facilitate data publication and data citation
In the previous post, I outlined reasons why researchers don’t publish data, presented as evidence to the Royal Society’s Policy Study “Science as a Public Enterprise” Call for Evidence. Here, I summarize activities by members of my Image Bioinformatics Research … Continue reading
Pensoft Journals policy and author guidelines on data publication and citation
In a recent blog post, Heather Piwowar, in discussing the advantages of citing datasets in the reference list of the article, said “No journals have standardized on this approach so far”. However, Pensoft Journals, a publisher that specializes in publishing … Continue reading
How to cite data
As an approach towards developing best practice for data citation, I recently wrote a Data Citation Best Practice Discussion Document that is available on Google Docs, and that I have now slightly revised to Version 2 [1]. In that document, … Continue reading
Questions of granularity – Dryad’s use of DataCite DOIs for data citation, and the Annotation Ontology
DataCite is an international organisation, founded in 2009, which promotes the use of DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) for published datasets, in order to establish easier access to research data, to increase acceptance of research data as legitimate contributions in the … Continue reading
DataCite2RDF – Mapping DataCite Metadata Scheme Terms to ontologies
The DataCite Metadata Kernel version 2.0 [1] specifies the minimal metadata, and optional metadata, that should accompany a DataCite DOI for the identification of a published data entity. Within the Metadata Kernel document there is an XML mapping of these … Continue reading
