Making data sticky

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Talk given at GBIF workshop at Kew Gardens 28 May 2012

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Making data sticky

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Data

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More data is good…

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…but this data is not sticky

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Location

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namename

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Tags

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NamenNamennamename

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Identifiers

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Shared identifiers are sticky

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Identifiers

• Globally unique

• Resolvable (human and machine)

• Used

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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

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Links

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PMID:948206

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http://biostor.org/reference/102054

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

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BHL and GBIF as biomedical databases

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

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Metrics

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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The value is in the links, not the nodes

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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)