RDA–WDS Publishing Data IG

Preliminary Sessions Programme

RDA 3rd Plenary, Dublin, Ireland

1. RDA-WDS Publishing Data Interest Group: introductory session
   
   Wednesday 26th March 1330-1500

   • Agenda:

     1. Brief introduction to IG and WGs (5 min each, total 25 minutes)

        1. General introduction - (Michael Diepenbroek)

        2. Workflows WG (Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Jonathan Tedds)

        3. Bibliometrics (Sarah Callaghan)

        4. Cost Recovery  (Ingrid Dillo)

        5. Publishing Services (Hylke Koers)

     2. Status review and updates (5 min each, total 25 minutes)

        1. Data Citation Synthesis Group (Simon Hodson)

        2. ORCID/ (ODIN) (Laure Haak)

        3. Data Citation: Making Dynamic Data Citeable - (Andreas Rauber)

        4. DataCite - (Jan Brase)

        5. 4C project - (Kevin Ashley)

     3. Questions, possibility for new proposals and open discussion (40 min)

2. Proposed Workflows WG meeting:
   
   Wednesday 26th March 1530-1700

   • Co-chairs:  Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen & Jonathan Tedds

   • Abstract: Researchers are increasingly encouraged or required to make their research data available for reuse but might often feel there are insufficient incentives for submitting and publishing data, resulting in low submission rates. Moreover, even when research data are preserved and submitted, it often happens with a bare minimum of metadata, which inhibits reuse.  Why is this? There are established and/or emerging workflows for selected disciplines that enable the publishing of data and some provide credit via citation mechanisms. However, in most disciplines, researchers are simply not aware of such workflows and they may not be applicable without significant modification. Having information about workflows is therefore crucial for researchers—and the people/stakeholders supporting them—to understand the options available to practice open science. Workflows that enable persistence, quality control and access are all crucial to enhance the possibilities for greater discoverability as well as efficient and reliable reuse of research data. The objectives of this Working Group are to provide an analysis of a representative range of existing and emerging workflows and standards for data publishing, including deposit and citation, and provide reference models and implementations for application in new workflows.

   • More information available on:  RDA website and ICSU-WDS website

   • "Data Publishing 2020:" Four case statements

   • Agenda:

     1. Brief introduction to WG and its objectives (10 min)

     2. Status review and updates (20 min)

     3. Questions and open discussion (40 min)

     4. Next steps, planning of intermediate milestones & deliverables (20 min)

3. Proposed Bibliometrics WG meeting:
   
   Thursday 27th March 1100-1230
   
   (Note: concurrent with IG Certification of Digital Rep.: Proposed DSA-WDS Partnership)

   • Co-chairs:  Sarah Callaghan  & Kerstin Lehnert

   • Abstract: Bibliometric indicators are essential to obtain quantitative measures for the assessment of the quality of research and researchers and the impact of research products. Systems and services such as the ISI’s Science Citation Index, the h-index (or Hirsch number), or the impact factor of scientific journals have been developed to track and record access and citation of scientific publications. These indicators are widely used by investigators, academic departments and administration, funding agencies, and professional societies across all disciplines to assess performance of individuals or organizations within the research endeavour, and inform and influence the advancement of academic careers and investments of research funding, and thus play a powerful role in the overall scientific endeavour. The basic idea of bibliometrics is to evaluate the attention scientific publications receive within the scientific community. The classical approach is based on counting formal citations in the literature, and despite various critical aspects—ambiguity of authorship, self-citations etc.—these indicators have become widely adopted across all of science. Similar indicators for the value and impact of data publications are needed to raise the value and appreciation of data and data sharing as the missing recognition for data publication in science is seen as the major cause for the reluctance of data producers to share their data. The overall objective of this working group therefore is to conceptualize data metrics and corresponding services that are suitable to overcome existing barriers and thus likely to initiate a cultural change among scientists, encouraging more and better data citations, augmenting the overall availability and quality of research data, increasing data discoverability and reuse, and facilitating the reproducibility of research results.

   • More information available on:  RDA website and ICSU-WDS website

   • "Data Publishing 2020:" Four case statements

   • Agenda:

     1. Brief introduction to WG and its objectives (10 min)

     2. Status review and updates (20 min)

     3. Questions and open discussion (40 min)

     4. Next steps, planning of intermediate milestones & deliverables (20 min)

4. Proposed WG Publishing Services meeting:
   
   Thursday 27th March 1330-1500
   
   (Note: concurrent with RDA-WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IG)

   • Chair:  Hylke Koers

   • Abstract: The overarching scope of this Working Group (WG) is to address processes, workflows, and solutions that currently exist—mostly as bilateral agreements—between individual parties within the data publication landscape, and investigate how these can be lifted to one-for-all services that increase interoperability, decrease systemic inefficiencies, and power new tools and functionalities to the benefit of researchers.

     As a primary point of focus, the WG will address the problem of limited interoperability between data repositories, scholarly journal publication platforms, and tools for bibliometric analysis. Currently, there is no common framework for cross-referencing datasets and published articles, which creates barriers and inefficiencies for the interlinking and contextualization of journal articles and datasets.

     To address this issue, the initial focus of this WG is to work towards a one-to-many cross-reference service for datasets and articles published in scientific journals, i.e. a service that at a minimum enables the identification of datasets associated with articles and vice versa. Additional features could include linking at different levels of granularity metadata to describe the nature of the relationship, relevant metadata for individual datasets, and articles.

   • More information available on:  RDA website and ICSU-WDS website

   • "Data Publishing 2020:" Four case statements

   • Agenda:

     1. Brief introduction to WG and its objectives (10 min)

     2. Status review and updates (20 min)

     3. Questions and open discussion (40 min)

     4. Next steps, planning of intermediate milestones & deliverables (20 min)

5. Proposed Cost Recovery for Data Centres  WG meeting:
   
   Thursday 27th March 1530-1700
   
   (Note: concurrent with BoF Data Citation Synthesis Group)

   • Chair:  Ingrid Dillo

   • Abstract: Basic funding of data infrastructure may not keep pace with increasing costs . Therefore, there is a need to consider alternative cost recovery options and a diversification of revenue streams. In short: who will pay for public access to research data?  This Working Group proposes to make a contribution to strategic thinking on cost recovery by conducting research to understand current and possible cost recovery strategies for data centres. The Working Group will pay particular attention to data centres’ involvement in data publishing activities and examine such initiatives as a potential source of alternative revenue. The Working Group will produce a report providing conclusions and recommendations about the potential appropriateness of different cost recovery models to different situations and the potential of data publication initiatives fitting into a cost recovery strategy. The Working Group will also contribute its findings to the combined testing of the various models/scenarios/mechanisms developed in the four Data Publishing Working Groups. These deliverables will build on five areas of work: 1) A summary of current work on cost models ; 2) A survey of funding policies specifically relating to how the costs of data availability/publication may be recovered; 3) A survey, by means of a questionnaire and case studies, of various existing approaches to cost recovery/business models; 4) A survey of other stakeholders (publishers, researchers) to understand their position and policy in relation to charging models and their role in the publishing process; 5) The outcomes of the Working Group on Workflows.

   • More information available on:  RDA website and ICSU-WDS website

   • "Data Publishing 2020:" Four case statements

   • Agenda:

     1. Brief introduction to WG and its objectives (10 min)

     2. Status review and updates (20 min)

     3. Questions and open discussion (40 min)

     4. Next steps, planning of intermediate milestones & deliverables (20 min)

Additional meetings

Friday 28th March 1100-1230

In addition to the 4 widely open meetings above, the Chairs propose to organize working meetings on Friday

• WGs surveys: Bibliometrics, Cost Recovery and Workflows 1.5h (15 people)

• WG Publishing Services meeting: 1.5h (15 people)