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2011AGUworkshop - Federation of Earth Science Information Partners - 1 views

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earth science data management training

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  • Amy West on 12 Dec 11
     
    All the presentations are good, but I found the Data formats, Creating documentation & metadata, working w/an archive & preservation strategies particularly good. Solid examples of formats, metadata, and real-life preservation. Plus, as mgs of UDC/AgEcon, hopefully more archives over time, I think we should look hard at what they tell researchers to look for in an archive.
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Education | DataONE - 1 views

www.dataone.org/education

ppt data management education

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  • Amy West on 19 Sep 11
     
    Like the quizzes embedded at the end of each ppt. Clever.
Amy West

Interagency Data Stewardship/Citations/provider guidelines - Federation of Earth Scienc... - 0 views

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data citations guidelines earth science

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      Amy West on 13 Sep 11
       
      Little confused by what's meant by "data sets should be cited like books" since they go on to provide really good reasons why data aren't like books, e.g. need subsetting information, access date for dynamic databases.
  • The guidelines build from the IPY Guidelines and are compatible with the DataCite Metadata Scheme for the Publication and Citation of Research Data, Version 2.2, July 2011.
  • In some cases, the data set authors may have also published a paper describing the data in great detail. These sort of data papers should be encouraged, and both the paper and the data set should be cited when the data are used.
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  • Ongoing updates to a time series do change the content of the data set, but they do not typically constitute a new version or edition of a data set. New versions typically reflect changes in sampling protocols, algorithms, quality control processes, etc. Both a new version and an update may be reflected in the release date.
  • Locator, Identifier, or Distribution Medium
  • Then it is necessary to include a persistant reference to the location of the data.
  • This may be the most challenging aspect of data citation. It is necessary to enable "micro-citation" or the ability to refer to the specific data used--the exact files, granules, records, etc.
  • Data stewards should suggest how to reference subsets of their data. With Earth science data, subsets can often be identified by referring to a temporal and spatial range.
  • A particular data set may be part of a compilation, in which case it is appropriate to cite the data set somewhat like a chapter in an edited volume.
  • Increasingly, publishers are allowing data supplements to be published along with peer-reviewed research papers. When using the data supplement one need only cite the parent reference. F
  • Confusingly, a Digital Object Identifier is a locator. It is a Handle based scheme whereby the steward of the digital object registers a location (typically a URL) for the object. There is no guarantee that the object at the registered location will remain unchanged. Consider a continually updated data time series, for example.
  • While it is desirable to uniquely identify the cited object, it has proven extremely challenging to identify whether two data sets or data files are scientifically identical.
  • At this point, we must rely on location information combined with other information such as author, title, and version to uniquely identify data used in a study.
  • The key to making registered locators, such as DOIs, ARKS, or Handles, work unambiguously to identify and locate data sets is through careful tracking and documentation of versions.
  • how to handle different data set versions relative to an assigned locator.
  • Track major_version.minor_version.[archive_version].
  • Typically, something that affects the whole data set like a reprocessing would be considered a major version.
  • Assign unique locators to major versions.
  • Old locators for retired versions should be maintained and point to some appropriate web site that explains what happened to the old data if they were not archived.
  • A new major version leads to the creation of a new collection-level metadata record that is distributed to appropriate registries. The older metadata record should remain with a pointer to the new version and with explanation of the status of the older version data.
  • Major and minor version should be listed in the recommended citation.
  • inor versions should be explained in documentation
  • Ongoing additions to an existing time series need not constitute a new version. This is one reason for capturing the date accessed when citing the data.
  • we believe it is currently impossible to fully satisfy the requirement of scientific reproducibility in all situations
  • To aid scientific reproducibility through direct, unambiguous reference to the precise data used in a particular study. (This is the paramount purpose and also the hardest to achieve). To provide fair credit for data creators or authors, data stewards, and other critical people in the data production and curation process. To ensure scientific transparency and reasonable accountability for authors and stewards. To aid in tracking the impact of data set and the associated data center through reference in scientific literature. To help data authors verify how their data are being used. To help future data users identify how others have used the data.
  • The ESIP Preservation and Stewardship cluster has examined these and other current approaches and has found that they are generally compatible and useful, but they do not entirely meet all the purposes of Earth science data citation.
  • In general, data sets should be cited like books.
  • hey need to use the style dictated by their publishers, but by providing an example, data stewards can give users all the important elements that should be included in their citations of data sets
  • Access Date and Time--because data can be dynamic and changeable in ways that are not always reflected in release dates and versions, it is important to indicate when on-line data were accessed.
  • Additionally, it is important to provide a scheme for users to indicate the precise subset of data that were used. This could be the temporal and spatial range of the data, the types of files used, a specific query id, or other ways of describing how the data were subsetted.
Amy West

The Enduring Value of Social Science Research: The Use and Reuse of Primary Research Da... - 2 views

deepblue.lib.umich.edu/...78307

data sharing icpsr

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  • Amy West on 30 Aug 11
     
    Paper on data sharing from social sciences perspective; also some analysis of sharing so far.
Amy West

Open access to research data a lot tougher than you think - 2 views

arstechnica.com/...lot-tougher-than-you-think.ars

open access data publications preservation

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  • It means that researchers need to deal with the formatting and deposition of data, an annoying step when they would rather be focusing on their next project. Given the time lag, it's also difficult to associate the correct metadata with the material that's being a
  • According to the commentary, scientists view data deposition as a burden due to the extra work it involves. Research data is usually not in the correct format for submission to repositories when the project is completed, and so the scientist must take the time to convert it.
  • The authors here propose a new approach to data management, where each research institution should employ data managers to work with scientists and administer local, structured data storage. Local storage and support is the preference of most scientists, who would rather not hand off control of their data to remote strangers.
Amy West

Data Citation from the perspective of tracking data reuse - 3 views

www.slideshare.net/...pective-of-tracking-data-reuse

NSF total-impact.org data citation presentation

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  • Amy West on 25 Aug 11
     
    heather piowar
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total-impact.org - 2 views

total-impact.org

NSF total-impact.org

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  • Amy West on 25 Aug 11
     
    Welcome to Total-Impact. This site allows you to track the impact of various online research artifacts. It grabs metrics from many different sites and displays them all in one place.
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In case you can't read…. | Prof-Like Substance - 1 views

scientopia.org/...in-case-you-cant-read

conference presentations unpublished data

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  • When I am putting a talk together it would never occur to me not to include a health dose of unpublished data. The only times in my career that I have talked about mostly published data have been when I first started as a postdoc and in the early days of being a PI, when I didn't have enough new data to even make a coherent story, but that accounts for maybe three professional talks out of man
  • s it a fear of being scooped or a penchant for keeping one's ideas close to the chest that promotes the Summary Talk?
  • I think it's field dependent. Personally, I can rarely get enough information from a talk to know whether to believe a result or not. This means that unpublished data usually ends up with me thinking "maybe, maybe not".
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  • (A good talk like this has enough of a citation on the slide that I can jot down where to go if I want to know details on any particular result.)
  • I'm in a highly competitive biomed field, and I was taught never to present something unless it was either submitted or ready to be submitted.
  • I don't really spend any time worrying about being scooped because I collect my own data.
  • Why look at a poster or talk of 100% published work, I've already seen the stuff in a journal to start with
  • Final year materials chemist = keeping cards close to my chest. Once bitten, never again.
  • In neuro, I'd say that at smaller conferences and less high-profile talks at big conferences (i.e. not keynotes or featured lectures), the bulk of what you're hearing is unpublished. ALL posters are unpublished--in fact, I think (?) it's a rule at SfN that the content of posters can't be published already.
  • In my field I'd guess that most talks include data that is in press or at some close to publication sta
  • A big name should be more generous, but then again they do have to save guard the career of the student/postdoc who generated the data. Also the star or keynote speaker is expected to address a wider audience, and make their talk relevant to the overall theme of the conference.
  • In my (experimental) social science, most conferences explicitly say that you cannot submit to present already published or even accepted work.
  • In my field (Astronomy), I'd say 95% of the talks are about unpublished data.
  • Amy West on 04 Aug 11
     
    A blog post & comments on what's preferred in conference presentations: published or unpublished data. Interesting.
Amy West

WHAT EXPLAINS THE GERMAN LABOR MARKET MIRACLE IN THE GREAT RECESSION? - 0 views

www.nber.org/w17187.pdf

data management citations social science practices

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  • Amy West on 07 Jul 11
     
    This paper uses, among other sources, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPS data that covers 1960-2009 to analyze just 2 years of data. The authors do cite the whole CPS, but you have to read the paper to see which bits of that set matter to this paper. The bulk of the paper itself is their explanation of the various statistical methods they used to support their conclusions. The data is neither novel or unique to them. Their analysis however, may be novel and is certainly unique to them. They also provide some technical documentation, e.g. we did x with SPSS. So, ideally, it would be nice to have a citation to the paper, to the 2 year subset of data relevant to it and a citation to the entire BLS CPS data. This is not agricultural economics, but I think that pretty similar patterns will be found there too.
Amy West

Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, wealth and politics in New York - 1 views

www.nber.org/w17147.pdf

data methodology

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  • Amy West on 21 Jun 11
     
    interesting and frustrating paper. has a "data appendix" which talks about the data and methodology (good), but doesn't include the data files that had to have been created in order to generate the tables. 
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Data Preservation - Home - 1 views

datapreservation.usgs.gov

data preservation e-science escience geology

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  • Amy West on 17 May 11
     
    USGS is attempting to corral / manage geological & geophysical preservation efforts.
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ingentaconnect Citing data sources in the social sciences: do authors do it? - 1 views

www.ingentaconnect.com/...art00004

social science data citation journals behaviors

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