Harmonizing Diverse Practices and Policies Linda Beebe Senior Director, PsycINFO

Publishers’ Approach to Data and Metadata

Harmonizing Diverse Practices and Policies

Linda BeebeSenior Director, PsycINFO

ALA Annual Meeting June 2012

Following 2 slides from Howard Ratner good reminder

Borrowed with permission from his talk December 2011 STM Innovations meeting

Ideas generated by the STM Future Lab Committee.

All agree data are multiplying


Important Topic #1: API Platforms*New Access to Content

NEW ACCESS TO CONTENT

*API-platforms for third party developers available at Elsevier, Springer, NPG, IEEE (search)Getting ready for launch:IoPP, T&F, CABIMany more expected to follow

Curiosity driven R&DGRANULARITY OF CONTENT

SEMANTICS

LET THE OUTSIDE WORLD IN

OUR CONTENT YOUR WAY

CREATE CROSS-PUBLISHER STANDARDS

Common metadata

Full text formats

HTML5

API PLATFORMS

XHTML

THIRD PARTY APPS

App store

LINKED DATA

LINKED OPEN DATA

RDF

MOBILE PRODUCTIVITYMULTI-DEVICE PRODUCTIVITY

Seamlessly linked platforms

M-commerce MOBILE

Transmedia itemsVoice Activation


Important Topic #2: Research DataNew Presentations for Re-use

RESEARCH DATA

DATA OBJECTS ARE FIRST CLASS RESEARCH OBJECTS

MAKE DATA INTERACTIVE

share the actual workflow of the researcher?

graphics represent data sets; how to open them up?

ACTIONABLE DATA

DATA CREATION

What formats do users want?COMMON STANDARDS

AUTHORING TOOLS

how to treat supplemental files to journals?

Guidelines for:-Reuse and sharing-Incentives and barriers-Editorial policies

Discoverability of data

BIG DATA

Deep Linking

REPOSITORIESDATACITE

Bibliographic tools

User behaviour

MendeleyCiteSeer

ColWizReadCUBE

Data journal


Increased quantities of data are scattered on laptops, in file drawers, on the web—all in danger of being lost, even thrown away.

How do we preserve these data?


Establish community norms for transparency, preservation, and reuse of research data.

Establish standards for metadata to describe the data and its provenance.

Use standards for unique identifiers, especially the DOI, and bi-directional linking.

My Simplistic Answer─

But we live in a complex world.


Researcher

Institution

Funder

Publisher

Data Manage

r

Major Participants in the Research Cycle


“Hard sciences” such as Physics and Chemistry—long history of handling supplemental material and requiring access to data.

Disciplines that study human subjects (psychology, sociology, health sciences)—far less likely to have such practices.

There is interest in standards for supplemental material and data deposits.

Different Cultures & Practices


Study of Matter AAAS—must deposit

in approved repository.

ACS—must submit data and deposit.

AGU—must deposit data in approved repository

ASPB—must submit to journal.

Study of Humans APA—to date only

expected to supply for verification.

APS—no requirements

ASA—no requirements posted

AAA—no requirements posted

The Divide on Data Deposits


But I see hopeful signs. . .


Funder mandates for data sharing plans encourage new thinking from some disciplines.

Connection with the publications is needed.

Funder/Research/Publishing Connections


New initiative from CrossRef Collaboration between publishers and funders to

make connections between grants and resulting publications

Pilot for publishers to create and submit standard metadata with funder name and grant number.

Once database populated, funders can submit queries to get lists of CrossRef DOIs for research they funded.

Working group includes several publishers and funders. http://www.crossref.org/fundref/index.html

Publisher/Funder Cooperation─FundRef

http://www.crossref.org/fundref/index.html

http://www.crossref.org/fundref/index.html


Included data since 2006, but fielded in 2012.

342,275 records from 2006 to present with grant data

728,666 funders listed 811,890 recipients listed (94% single) Contract #s given for 44% of funders Amount of funding given rare (.04%) Note: much of psychological research is not

funded.

PsycINFO Experience with Grant/Sponsor Information from Journal Articles


VIVO, designed to facilitate information exhange about research and scholarship.

Funded by National Center for Research Resources at NIH.

U of Florida, Cornell, Indiana U, Washington U School of Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Ponce Medical College.

Semantic web of information Interconnectedness and trust support

maintenance of research data.

VIVO—and expanded collaboration


Supplemental Journal Article Materials, not focused on underlying research data, but strong recommendations that support curation of the data.

Business Policies & Practices cover selecting, editing, hosting, assuring discoverability, referencing, packaging, maintaining links, providing context, and preserving.

Technical Recommendations emphasize metadata, persistent identifiers, preservation, packaging and exchange.

NISO-NFAIS Recommended Practices


Bi-directional linking using DOIs, emphasis on persistent linking reliability.

Flexibility and simplicity to support either a simple approach or the most detailed and granular metadata.

Clear definitions of metadata elements and recommended names for a DTD.

Attention to preservation and migration, including saving of objects along the migration chain.

Recommended Practices That Support Data Curation and Preservation


Recommendations on citation of Supplemental and Related content.

Roles & Responsibilities re these materials: Primary Publishing—Publisher, Editor, Peer

Reviewer, Author Related Parties—Libraries, Abstracting &

Indexing Services, Repository Administrators

www.niso.org

More on NISO-NFAIS Initiative

http://www.niso.org/


Linkability and Citability of Research Data Authors encouraged—deposit validated

data in trustworthy/reliable Data Archives. Data Archives encouraged—enable bi-

directional linking, datasets to publications with persistent identifiers, e.g. DOIs.

Publishers encouraged—increase visibility of links, publications to datasets.

STM-DataCite Joint Statement


Data Archives encouraged—increase visibility of links, datasets to publications.

DataCite/STM support principle of data reuse, actively participate in best practice recommendations, citation of datasets.

DataCite/STM invite other organizations engaged in research data management to join them and support the statement.

http://www.stm-assoc.org/document-library/

6/14/2012 Joint Statement Cont.




Archives of Scientific Psychology First call for papers to be released in mid-

August with publication expected in early 2013. Very different from other APA journals in 3

regards: Authors must submit data to APA or

approved repository. Journal is electronic only. It is an open access/author pays model.

APA’s New Experimental Journal


Authors sign a Collaboration Agreement specifying that others may reuse their data.

Researchers who wish to reuse the data must sign a Collaboration Agreement stating1. They will not engage in “gotcha”

publishing—run analyses to prove author wrong and publish the results.

2. They will offer the original data collector co-authorship.

Data Collaboration Most Radical Aspect


Change the paradigm for use and reuse of data in psychological research by solving the problems most psychologists cite when asked about sharing data: Others will steal my data when I am not

finished using it and I’ll get no academic credit for all my labor.

Others may use the data to distort my work and discredit me.

Maintain APA’s high standards for peer-reviewed literature and contributions to science.

APA’s Goals


Data loss a growing and serious concern. Can stem the tide with community norms,

metadata standards, and unique identifiers. Examples of hopeful signs:

FundRef VIVO NISO-NFAIS Initiative STM-DataCite Statement APA’s New Journal—Archives of Scientific

Psychology

In Summary . . .


Linda BeebeSenior Director, PsycINFO

American Psychological [email protected]

www.apa.org/pubs/index.aspx

Thanks for Listening!

Let’s keep those bits and bytes from disappearing.

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