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Making data sticky

Data

More data is good…

…but this data is not sticky

Location

namename

namename

Tags

NamenNamennamename

Identifiers

Shared identifiers are sticky

Identifiers

• Globally unique

• Resolvable (human and machine)

• Used

Identifiers

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-187Extracting scientific articles from a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

• http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3pc64Nexus file with the characters-taxa matrix used for the phylogenetic analysis

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1601/nm.5037Halobacillus

Links

PMID:948206

http://biostor.org/reference/102054

http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/215921922/

BHL and GBIF as biomedical databases

http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/bhl-and-gbif-as-biomedical-databases.html

Metrics

In an attempt to live up to that increasing demand for documentation, the leadership of the Natural History Museum of Denmark has issued an order to its curatorial staff - The staff members are requested to document which publications from 2011, written entirely by external scientists, that in one way or another are based on material in the collections of the Museum.

http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen@TAXACOM

https://twitter.com/#!/search/10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0036881

https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176

https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176

http://www.museum-analytics.org/

Cited, linkable specimens

NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Herpetology Collections 11194

CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog

MCZ Herpetology Collection

Herpetology Collection (University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center)

9619

6720

5818

http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html

The value is in the links, not the nodes

Summary• Make your data sticky…

• …by using other people’s identifiers

• Shared identifiers create links…

• …which enable discovery (and metrics)

• Value is in the links (think Google, Facebook)