Innovation & Supplementary Material

Eleonora Presani – Elseviere.presani@elsevier.com

Overview Data & the Scientific Article

Supplementary Material Connecting with Data Repositories

Online Linking Schemes Article-level & Entity-level Linking Examples

Applications SciVerse Applications Applications and Data

The Article of the Future

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Supplementary Material Authors can upload Supplementary Material with their paper

Pro’s• Coupling of data and article• Peer review• Citation mechanism• Preservation (byte-wise)

Con’s• Limited data type support• Compatibility (format support)• Limited capacity• Data not centrally stored

Connecting with Data Repositories Supplementary material is not a perfect solution Many poor solutions in use: data on PCs, university

websites, personal homepages, ... Data repositories: the community’s answer?

Scientists prefer independent data repositories above publishers Domain-specific coordination Centralized information “hubs”

“Raw data should be freelyaccessible to researchers”

“... believe that, as a general principle, data sets, raw data outputs of research, and sets or subsets of that data should wherever possible be made freely accessible to other scholars ...”(Statement from STM & ALPSP, June 2006)

DB Linking Option 1: Entity Linking

For entities (concepts) mentioned inan article – proteins, genes, standardsplanets, cities, etc. etc.

Author-tagged in manuscript

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2012.03.009

Option 2: Image-based (article) linking

For links between article as a whole and related data sets

No author involvement required on Elsevier side Links managed by data repository

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2008.08.005

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HEPData Linking (Mike Whalley)

SciVerse Applications Scientific literature: a node that could more efficiently

connect resources Mass of data available to researchers outside the formal

literature is huge and growing Many disconnected nodes - minimal interoperability, even when connections

exist This is inefficient - task switching between multiple interfaces, hard to find

resources... An open platform for publishing can “un-silo” data and literature

Smart apps can facilitate interoperability, bring relevant data into context with papers

Integrated user experience, save researchers from searching in multiple data sources while reading the literature

Introduces researchers to new tools and resources they may never have found otherwise

SciVerse Applications

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Use information from SciVerse and the web

Support for rich user interfaces

Integrated directly into the online article

Simple to build using Content and Framework APIs

Open standards (Apache Shindig, Open Social)

Features & Benefits

SciVerse Applications & Data

SciVerse Applications enable the community to create the publishing platform they need by building their own applications.

Benefits for data repositories Increase visibility, discoverability, and usage

(ScienceDirect: ~600M page views/year) Provide context: connect data with the formal

literature, avoid misinterpretations and incorrect usage

Enable researchers to interactive explore data

Applications example: NCBI Genome Viewer

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Scans the article and builds list of sequences based on NCBI accession numbers tagged in the article

View/analyze sequence data from genes in the article using NCBI Sequence Viewer See specific information about each strand; zoom in/out; export data

Screenshots of journal article on ScienceDirect (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2007.07.010)

Applications example: PANGAEA

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Document identifier sent to PANGAEA data repository for earth sciences PANGAEA returns map plotted with locations where cited data was collected Push-pins open with details of dataset and direct link to data on PANGAEA.de

Screenshots of journal article on ScienceDirect (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0377-8398(01)00044-5)

NED/SIMBAD Linking

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Example: PDGLive linking MOCK-UP

Putting all together: Article of the Future

Three components of the Article of the Future concept: Presentation: Offering an optimal online browsing and reading experience Content: Support authors to share a wider range of research output –

data, computer code, multimedia files, etc. Context: Connecting the online article to trustworthy scientific resources to

present valuable additional informationin the context of the article

http://www.articleofthefuture.com/

Examples of features of interest for HEP

Supplementary Material ROOT Files support Inline SourceCode

DataBase linking HEPData PDG

Applications MatLab viewer Interactive Plots ROOT Viewer