Tag Archives: Dryad

Barriers to comprehensive reference availability

Posted on January 9, 2018 by

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 →

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Comments on IS DATA PUBLICATION THE RIGHT METAPHOR?

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Is Data Publication the Right Metaphor? is an essay by Mark Parsons and Peter Fox to be published in the Data Science Journal, for which a preprint has been provided for open pre-publication community peer review at http://mp-datamatters.blogspot.com/2011/12/seeking-open-review-of-provocative-data.html. To supplement … Continue reading →

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IBRG projects to facilitate data publication and data citation

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

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 →

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Pensoft Journals policy and author guidelines on data publication and citation

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

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 →

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How to cite data

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

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 →

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Questions of granularity – Dryad’s use of DataCite DOIs for data citation, and the Annotation Ontology

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

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 →

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DataCite2RDF – Mapping DataCite Metadata Scheme Terms to ontologies

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

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 →

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