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Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable

Posted on May 17, 2022 by OATP primary
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“There have been many calls in recent years to make data sets FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), and to ensure that open data abide by the 5-star deployment scheme suggested by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, which aims to make them findable, free and structured. Many researchers are now committed to depositing data in free and open repositories with appropriate metadata.

Chaos around units undermines these efforts. Already, many scientists invest more time in wrangling data than doing research. When data are not interoperable or machine readable, researchers’ individual informatics approaches are thwarted. The benefits of data sharing shrink.

Unless we take steps to ensure that measurement units are routinely documented for easy, unambiguous exchange of data, information will be unusable or, worse, be misinterpreted. All global challenges, from pandemics to climate change, require high-quality data across multidisciplinary, international sources. Mistakes and lost opportunities will cost humanity much more than hundreds of millions of dollars for a single crashed spacecraft….”

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Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable

Posted on May 17, 2022 by peter.suber's bookmarks
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“There have been many calls in recent years to make data sets FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), and to ensure that open data abide by the 5-star deployment scheme suggested by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, which aims to make them findable, free and structured. Many researchers are now committed to depositing data in free and open repositories with appropriate metadata.

Chaos around units undermines these efforts. Already, many scientists invest more time in wrangling data than doing research. When data are not interoperable or machine readable, researchers’ individual informatics approaches are thwarted. The benefits of data sharing shrink.

Unless we take steps to ensure that measurement units are routinely documented for easy, unambiguous exchange of data, information will be unusable or, worse, be misinterpreted. All global challenges, from pandemics to climate change, require high-quality data across multidisciplinary, international sources. Mistakes and lost opportunities will cost humanity much more than hundreds of millions of dollars for a single crashed spacecraft….”

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Webcast: From open stacks to open descriptions: How library linked data radically alters how libraries will share knowledge – 1510619

Posted on May 16, 2022 by OATP primary
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“Linked data applications will empower users in new ways, delivering multiple knowledge journeys that will better represent different cultures, disciplines, and pedagogies. It is a watershed technological advancement for libraries. Not just a change in the back office business of cataloging and classification, it will improve what libraries are collectively able to accomplish in a dynamic, pluralistic, information environment.  

Moving from a records-based approach towards more granular, flexible systems that rely on entities, persistent identifiers, and descriptions will, of course, change roles within cataloging, technical services, reference, and other library departments. But this isn’t just a move to be more efficient or to support better findability of library resources.

Join OCLC experts Rachel Frick and Nathan Putnam and Torsten Reimer from the British Library who will discuss the implications of linked data and entity descriptions across a range of important issues, including:

New roles and responsibilities for metadata librarians
Better representation of diverse communities and perspectives
The ability to partner with and support other knowledge and memory institutions
Improved discovery opportunities…”

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2022 public data file of more than 134 million metadata records now available – Crossref

Posted on May 16, 2022 by OATP primary
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“In 2020 we released our first public data file, something we’ve turned into an annual affair supporting our commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). We’ve just posted the 2022 file, which can now be downloaded via torrent like in years past.

We aim to publish these in the first quarter of each year, though as you may notice, we’re a little behind our intended schedule. The reason for this delay was that we wanted to make critical new metadata fields available, including resource URLs and titles with markup.

Crossref metadata is always openly available via our API. We recommend you use this method to incrementally add new and updated records once you’re up and running with an annual public data file. If you’re interested in more frequent and regular “full-file” downloads, consider subscribing to our Metadata Plus program. Plus subscribers have access to monthly snapshots in JSON and XML formats.

Every year our metadata corpus grows. The 2020 file was 65GB and held 112 million records; 2021 came in at 102GB and 120 million records. This year the file weighs in at 160 GB and contains metadata for 134 million records, or all Crossref records registered up to and including April 30, 2022….”

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[2205.01833] OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts

Posted on May 6, 2022 by peter.suber's bookmarks
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OpenAlex is a new, fully-open scientific knowledge graph (SKG), launched to replace the discontinued Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG). It contains metadata for 209M works (journal articles, books, etc); 2013M disambiguated authors; 124k venues (places that host works, such as journals and online repositories); 109k institutions; and 65k Wikidata concepts (linked to works via an automated hierarchical multi-tag classifier). The dataset is fully and freely available via a web-based GUI, a full data dump, and high-volume REST API. The resource is under active development and future work will improve accuracy and coverage of citation information and author/institution parsing and deduplication.

 

Posted in oa.gold, oa.infrastructure, oa.institutions, oa.journals, oa.mag, oa.metadata, oa.new, oa.openalex, oa.repositories, oa.tools, oa.wikidata, openaccess | Leave a reply

Work: The OpenAccess object | OpenAlex documentation

Posted on April 29, 2022 by OATP primary
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“…The OpenAccess object

The OpenAccess object describes access options for a given work. It’s only found as part of the Work object.

is_oa

Boolean: True if this work is Open Access (OA). 

There are many ways to define OA. OpenAlex uses a broad definition: having a URL where you can read the fulltext of this work without needing to pay money or log in. You can use the  alternate_host_venues and oa_status fields to narrow your results further, accommodating any definition of OA you like.

is_oa: true

oa_status

String: The Open Access (OA) status of this work. Possible values are:

gold: Published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ

green: Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository.

hybrid: Free under an open license in a toll-access journal.

bronze: Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license.

closed: All other articles.

oa_status: “gold”

oa_url

String: The best Open Access (OA) URL for this work. 

Although there are many ways to define OA, in this context an OA URL is one where you can read the fulltext of this work without needing to pay money or log in. The “best” such URL is the one closest to the version of record. 

This URL might be a direct link to a PDF, or it might be to a landing page that links to the free PDF

oa_url: “https://peerj.com/articles/4375.pdf””

?

 

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International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022), Oct 03-05, 2022 (in person), Oct 03-14 (virtual) | DCMI

Posted on April 27, 2022 by OATP primary
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In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole spectrum of innovation in metadata design, implementation and best practices, with a special focus on challenges and opportunities in a diverse and data-intensive world.

Venue

University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Mode

Virtual and (pandemic permitting) in-person

In-Person date

2022 October 3rd to October 5th

Virtual date

2022 October 3rd to October 14th

Two years into the pandemic, the changes and rising needs for information justice and equity prompted the metadata community to reexamine how the metadata community address the biases and prejudice existed in the metadata tools and practices. Creating just, equitable representation of data and information resources and entities plays a significant role in promoting diversity and inclusion. These social and cultural changes coupled with the data-intensive, data-dependent, and data-driven environment demand metadata to be innovative, intelligent, interoperable, sharable, and reusable. Metadata as one of the underpinning dimensions for the digital data era has never been more critical than today. Fashionable fields such as linked (open) data, research data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital humanities and open science are dependent upon quality metadata to operate and perform effectively. Besides supporting information and data management, discovery, sharing, conservation, and reuse, metadata has become an invaluable source for analytics and knowledge discovery and make information more accessible for diverse communities. The parallel growth of data and metadata offers new challenges and opportunities for the metadata community to rethink and reposition metadata research and practice in order to stay ahead of the next wave of developments in data-driven environments and diverse cultures.

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5 things you may not know about DOIs or why there is more to DOIs than meets the eye

Posted on April 24, 2022 by OATP primary
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“DOIs or Digital Object Identifers have become ubiquitous in our Scholarly ecosystem to the point that I find most researchers today are at least vaguely familar with the idea. You can possibly blame Sci-hub for this, but today many other tools and systems are comfortable with asking for DOIs without feeling the need to explictly explain what they are.

Similarly librarians even those not in the Scholarly Communication know of DOIs. Most of us know DOIs are meant as a unique persistant identifer for articles but having a DOI has no bearing on the quality of the article. 

Still knowing of DOIs is not the same of actually having good or detailed understanding….

Posted in oa.altmetrics, oa.dois, oa.genres, oa.metadata, oa.mining, oa.new, oa.pids, oa.retractions, oa.versions, openaccess | Leave a reply

Community support discussions: FAIR implementation for NI4OS-Europe service providers | EOSCSecretariat

Posted on April 22, 2022 by OATP primary
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EOSC raises to become the “Web of FAIR data” calling data services to support responsible and effective Research Data Management (RDM) by enabling FAIR data workflows, behaviours, and outputs through their systems. That practically means the allocation of roles and responsibilities, adoption of principles/policies, and technical integrations and enhancements, such as adaptation to global standards. In order to reply to these questions, the NI4OS-Europe and OntoCommons projects have co-organised the workshop “Community support discussions: FAIR implementation for NI4OS-Europe service providers”. During the 3-hours workshop, the participants have the opportunity to engage in tailored discussions with service providers to answer their FAIR-related questions and support their needs with respect to metadata, ontologies and semantics. In this interactive event, service providers will have the exceptional opportunity to learn about best practices from the experts of the NI4OS-Europe semantics experts group and the OntoCommons projects as well as present their services and get customised support.

Posted in oa.eosc, oa.events, oa.fair, oa.metadata, oa.new, oa.ni4os, oa.services, openaccess | Leave a reply

FAIRware: towards FAIR community metadata practices | by Raphael Sonabend | Wellcome Data | Apr, 2022 | Medium

Posted on April 21, 2022 by OATP primary
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“FAIRware aims to enable researchers to make their research practices more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). It is a project that is being carried out by the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, as one of the five flagship projects of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI)*.

The FAIRware project is developing the FAIR Workbench, an open-source software that researchers can use to assess their own metadata. This will be made publicly available later this year — and in the meantime, the team are eagerly seeking collaborators who want to test the prototype….”

Posted in oa.data, oa.fair, oa.floss, oa.metadata, oa.new, oa.rori, oa.software, oa.tools, openaccess | Leave a reply

Guest post: A milestone for the open access book: 50,000 open access books in DOAB and counting | OASPA

Posted on April 21, 2022 by OATP primary
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A milestone for open access – the Directory of Open Access Books now includes over 50,000 open access books published in 90 languages by 560 academic book publishers. The directory, representing scholarship from authors and publishers around the globe, is openly available to the scholarly community and the general public at large.

 

Posted in oa.books, oa.copim, oa.doab, oa.infrastructure, oa.metadata, oa.new, oa.openbookcollective, oa.scholarled, oa.scielo_books, oa.thoth, openaccess | Leave a reply

ORCID & OA Switchboard work to “connect the dots” of PIDs in OA

Posted on April 20, 2022 by OATP primary
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“We are excited to announce the first of a series of planned collaborations between ORCID and the OA Switchboard with the launch of ORCID-enabled smart matching in OA Switchboard. With their April 2022 release, OA Switchboard users will be able to leverage authoritative affiliation data from authors’ ORCID profiles to corroborate affiliation or organizational identifiers (such as ROR or Ringgold IDs) and ensure more accurate routing of the messages being shared between participants throughout the Open Access (OA) research cycle and publication journey, ultimately resulting in more complete and better quality metadata in the OA Switchboard messages for each article published. …”

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Only 6 of the 45 research outputs on the Scottish Government’s Natural Asset Register Data Portal are open data

Posted on April 11, 2022 by peter.suber's bookmarks
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“The Natural Asset Register Data Portal (NAR:DP) is a website funded by the Scottish Government that provides open access to research outputs related to Scotland’s natural assets.

The spatial datasets listed on the portal are produced by researchers in six Scottish Environment, Food and Agricultural Research Institutes (SEFARI). The portal is built on the CKAN platform and hosted by the James Hutton Institute (JHI).

According to the portal’s metadata catalogue, all but one of the 45 research outputs are available for re-use on open terms, because they are covered by an open licence or in the public domain….

In summary, I found that:

 

7 records only make data available as a web mapping service (WMS) layer,
2 records do not make any data available,
36 records make data available for download,
35 records make data available in an open format, and
only 6 records make data available with an open licence or status.

 

In other words, there is far less open data available from the Natural Asset Register Data Portal than the metadata suggests….”

Posted in oa.data, oa.metadata, oa.negative, oa.new, oa.scotland, oa.uk, openaccess | Leave a reply

DCMI: Webinar – Applying FAIR Principles to Ontologies

Posted on April 7, 2022 by peter.suber's bookmarks
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“This webinar addresses ontologies for the semantic web and how FAIR principles could be applied to ontologies. This includes metadata best practices and registries to publish the ontologies as Linked Open Vocabularies. Objectives are: To become familiar with ontologies for the semantic web and linked data principles; To become familiar with FAIR principles; To understand how FAIR principles could be applied to ontologies.”

Posted in oa.data, oa.events, oa.fair, oa.metadata, oa.new, oa.ontologies, openaccess | Leave a reply

Zotero ID – Wikidata property P10557

Posted on April 2, 2022 by OATP primary
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“Zotero ID (P10557) 

identifier for a person with an account at zotero.org…”

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