Valen Metadata and the [Data] Repository

Dan Valen, ﬁgshare
2.2017
Metadata and the [Data] Repository

Why research data repositories?
•  Funder Mandates
•  Publisher Mandates
•  FACTS (aka, data or it didn’t happen)
Source: hJp://datasharing.sparcopen.org/data

Drivers: Governments aligning to support public
access of research
  OSTP Memo
  NIH, NSF, NOAA, SI, and more…
  Tri-Agency Open Access Policy
  FASTR
  Other Agency/Funder Policies
ie: Gates, Moore, Sloan, NEH, Howard Hughes
  Concordat on Open Research Data
(HEFCE, RCUK, UUK, Wellcome Trust),
EPSRC, and more
  Horizon 20/20
OpenAIRE
North America

UK / Europe
Australia
  ARC – data management plan
expectaôn from researchers
  Australia Naônal Data Service –
suppor^ng the sector, Ins^tuônal Data
Management Frameworks

Drivers: Nudge the system towards promo^ng
research integrity

Source: hJp://www.dlib.org/dlib/january15/01guest_editorial.html
Drivers: Data as a “ﬁrst-class ci^zen”,
Transparency, and the 3 Rs

Source: hJps://www.rd-alliance.org/sites/default/ﬁles/aJachment/The%20Data%20Harvest%20Final.pdf

So what is the community doing to make data
discoverable?
Source: hJp://www.niso.org/apps/
group_public/download.php/15375/
PrimerRDM-2015-0727.pdf

Standards and the community
Source: hJp://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory/standards/ + hJp://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/subject-areas/physical-science

Adhering to
Force11 Joint Declaraôn
of Data Citaôn principles
(for discovery)…
Source: hJps://www.force11.org/group/joint-declaraôn-data-citaôn-principles-final Source: hJps://thlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/spotlight-on-data-citaôn-index/
PREAMBLE

Sound, reproducible scholarship rests upon a foundaôn
of robust, accessible data. For this to be so in prac^ce as
well as theory, data must be accorded due importance in
the prac^ce of scholarship and in the enduring scholarly
record. In other words, data should be considered
legi^mate, citable products of research. Data citaôn,
like the citaôn of other evidence and sources, is good
research prac^ce and is part of the scholarly ecosystem
suppor^ng data reuse.
In support of this asserôn, and to encourage good
prac^ce, we offer a set of guiding principles for data
within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other
research object.

Data FAIRport. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 June 2016.

A look at the generalist data repo
Source: hJps://zenodo.org/dev#harvest-metadata

Metadata at Zenodo: behind the scenes

Metadata at Zenodo: the “ﬁnished” product
Source: hJps://zenodo.org/record/313122

Metadata at ﬁgshare: OAI-PMH

Metadata at ﬁgshare: behind the scenes

Metadata at figshare: the “finished” product
Source: hJps://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.104616.v4

Data repos, metadata, and discovery
Source: hJp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-what-is-a-meta-search-engine/

Index content for discovery in Google + Google
Scholar

Can expose hidden content within published ar^cles

Google and Datasets (tabular data and beyond)
Source: hJps://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/datasets

Addi^onal ways to discover content: SHARE
hJps://share.osf.io/discover?sources=ﬁgshare

Addi^onal ways to discover content:
DataCite + the importance of metadata
Source: hJps://search.datacite.org

Mapping to diﬀerent metadata standards is
tough…

Source: hJp://jennriley.com/metadatamap/

From a data model perspec^ve, this problem
has at least one solu^on

•  RDF (machine readable format to describe
anything)
•  Ontology (a machine readable dic^onary for
gepng meaning from RDF)

Challenges and next steps
•  Expose metadata as RDF or LD and allow folks to build extensions or
mappings between what community has and other formats
•  Common metadata standards
•  (ie: from CRIS/RIM -> paper repo -> data repo -> through to)
•  OAI-PMH - doesn’t support versioning/wasn’t designed with that in
mind & lacks informaôn on the actual files related to metadata
records and that might be of use for some people… so JSON-LD via
the API?
•  Automated metadata capture and generaôn upon upload

Image courtesy of sheffield.figshare.com

Thank you so much
for your ^me
dan@figshare.com
@figshare
figshare.com

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