1. Data Papers in the Network Era
MacKenzie Smith
Research Director, MIT Libraries

2. WHY DATA SHARING
IS IMPORTANT

3. Some rights reserved by mod as hell

4. “The NIH expects and supports the timely release and
sharing of final research data from NIH-supported
studies for use by other researchers.
“Starting with the October 1, 2003 receipt
date, investigators submitting an NIH application
seeking $500,000 or more in direct costs in any single
year are expected to include a plan for data sharing
or state why data sharing is not possible.”
Application Guide for NIH and Other PHS Agencies

5. “Investigators are expected to share with other
researchers, at no more than incremental cost
and within a reasonable time, the primary
data, samples, physical collections and other
supporting materials created or gathered in the
course of work under NSF grants. Grantees* are
expected to encourage and facilitate such
sharing.”
* Grantee = Research University or similar

6. “Proposals must include a supplementary
document of no more than two pages labeled
“Data Management Plan””
including…

7. policies for access and sharing including provisions
for appropriate protection of
privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual
property, or other rights or requirements;
policies and provisions for re-use, re-
distribution, and the production of derivatives;
NSF Grant Proposal Guide, January 2011

8. Some rights reserved by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

9. WHY DATA SHARING
IS DIFFICULT

11. some rights reserved by jamieca

15. Some rights reserved by DARTProject

17. REUSABLE DATA IS….
structured, versioned and well-documented
formatted for long-term access
archived (backed up and secure)
findable and citable
legally unrestricted or clear usage policy

18. CONSIDER THE DATA PAPER

19. Data Paper
“a formal publication whose
primary purpose is to expose and
describe data, as opposed to
analyze and draw conclusions
from it.”
http://neurocommons.org/report/data-publication.pdf

20. “The objective of the Journal is to provide critically evaluated physical and chemical property
data, fully documented as to the original sources and the criteria used for
evaluation, preferably with uncertainty analysis.”

21. FIG. 1. Temperature and pressure ranges of the experimental thermal conductivity data for normal hydrogen.
J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 40, 033101 (2011)
© 2011 American Institute of Physics

26. 1. Organize peer-review, establish quality-
control measures
2. Create citable entity
3. Establish cross-linking mechanisms with
traditional papers, to enforce separation of
concerns (methodology vs analysis)

27. 4. Specify required documentation to make data
re-usable, re-purposable
5. Apply standard interoperable legal license
(CC0 or PDDL with normative attribution or
CC-By with URI attribution)
6. Ensure archiving strategy in place

28. DATA PUBLISHING
INFRASTRUCTURE

29. WEB IDENTIFIERS
I2 (Institutional Identifiers)

30. WEB DATA STANDARDS

31. WEB VISUALIZATION TOOLS

35. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES?

36. ROLES Springer,
Nature, BMC,
PLoS, WoS Libraries,
APS, ACS, AC
Publishers IT
M, Sage
Centers, Researc
Commons
h Admin
Scholarly
Institutions
Societies
e.g. Research
Microsoft, Ora Groups Governments, F
cle oundations
Mendeley, Zot
ero Tech
Funders
Companies
institutional, Data Centers
disciplinary, c
ommercial

38. Some rights reserved by The University of Iowa Libraries

40. Portrait of Ada Lovelace. Some rights reserved by Aristocrat

41. THANK YOU