Scholix.org (Scholarly link exchange) is about linking data to articles to improve discoverability, citability, and FAIRness of data. This works the other way too, where links from articles to the underlying data are essential to give context to and enhance the article.
It’s an old idea, but critical, and it’s important that now we have laid the foundations we need to keep working towards better, more comprehensive linkage between articles and data. Since starting the Scholix work with the RDA-WDS Data Publishing Services Working Group in 2014, Scholix has collected millions of links between datasets and journal articles. We’ll recap this briefly, but we think what you may also want to learn about is how this small idea has grown from conception to implementation and is continuing to gain momentum, even since we last presented at the RDA Plenary in Helsinki in November 2019.
In our session, we want to give you an overview where members from our various stakeholder groups stand, and invite questions and comments from attendees based on what you’re seeing in your own communities and where more progress could be made.
We will also discuss if we should broaden our scope going forward or if we want to remain focused on data-article links only, and if there is more that should be considered in that aspect alone. Where should Scholix go next? Scope expansion could, for example, include the types of objects that are linked (e.g. going beyond data to include software, workflows, reagents, and/or samples), or expanding the workflows that can be supported (e.g. including publishing status notifications in order to better support synchronization), or look towards better support for the life sciences community.
We all know how important linking articles to data is for our communities, and we are seeing good progress in workflows that are making this happen by default rather than as something seen as desirable or ‘nice to have’. We’re seeking help to continue to raise awareness and share what others are doing to continue to accelerate this practice.
- An overview of Scholix - Wouter Haak
- An overview of contributor progress
- Scholix for publishers - Rachael Lamney, Martyn Rittman (CrossRef), Joris van Rossum (STM)
- Scholix for data repositories + Datacite metrics and links – Helena Cousijn (DataCite)
- Contributions to Scholix from the different communities: who is linking to who, where and in what volume? - Paolo Manghi (OpenAire)
- A discussion on next steps and complementary projects – Martin Fenner (DataCite)
The target audience is broad, and we hope that with an online event we will be able to get an even broader range of participants than at an in-person event, especially from the publishing community:
1) Publishers who want to understand better how they can provide article data links and leverage the information on which data they’re linking to and which data is linking to their publications.
2) Data repositories/centers who want to understand better how to leverage and contribute article-data links
3) Consumers of bulk data-article links to build services or metrics
4) Graph and link aggregators or hubs; e.g. Crossref, EBI, Pubmed, DataCite, OpenAire
The Scholarly Link Exchange Working group aims to enable links between scholarly literature and data. The working group will leverage existing work and international initiatives to work towards a global information commons by establishing:
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Pathfinder services and enabling infrastructure
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An interoperability framework with guidelines and standards (see also www.scholix.org)
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A significant consensus
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Support for communities of practice and implementation
The working group follows on from the RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services WG, https://rd-alliance.org/groups/rdawds-publishing-data-services-wg.html.
This WG has been endorsed by the scientific committee of ICSU-WDS
The group is in “maintenance mode”. This may be a deceptive description of the status, as the group has many members who are actively participating in the monthly calls. “maintenance” implies that the current focus of the working group members is on implementation, uptake, and adoption rather than on expanding the Scholix framework itself, although we are also in the process of making some updates to the group schema recommendations based on community feedback.
Recent presentations and articles on article-data linking:
Scholix and article-data linking has been covered extensively in STM's Year of Resarch Data: https://www.stm-researchdata.org/
Crossref presentation as part of the STM effort: https://www.stm-researchdata.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Crossref-dat...
FORCE11 Infrastructure blog series: https://www.force11.org/blog/infrastructure-series-data-citations
Further information can be found on:
https://datacite.org/eventdata.html
https://www.crossref.org/services/event-data/
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