OECD’s approach to publishing datasets

ALCTS: Webinar: Datasets for Publication, Standards and issues7 December 2011

Terri MittonData Products Project Manager

OECD Publishing

terri.mitton@oecd.org

Data is hard to find

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Scopus content (July 2011):•19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers•18,500 journals•425 trade publications •325 book series•250 conference proceeding. •375 million scientific web pages•24.8 million patent records

…data is missing

You need to know where to look

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Source: IMF Staff Papers (2007) 54, 191–219. doi:10.1057/palgrave.imfsp.9450013Current Account Deficits in Rich Countries

Source: OECD database.

Which one?

What we set out to achieve

• Citations to datasets and tables will make data as easy to discover as other works

• Authors will be able to cite dataset and tables as they do with publications

• Librarians will be able to catalogue datasets and tables like other published outputs

• Publishers can link to datasets and tables

• Discovery systems can find datasets and tables

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OECD’s publishing approach

1. Bibliographic standards definition2. Cataloguing datasets and data

tables3. Online publishing and citing4. Making data available via other

discovery channels

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Bibliographic standards definition

• In 2007-2008, Development of standards for bibliographic management and citing of datasets and data tables based on existing standards for e-journals.– Green, T (2009), “We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and

Tables”, OECD Publishing White Paper, OECD publishing. doi: 10.1787/603233448430

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Publishing metadata for datasets and data tables

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dataset

Sub-collection of

datasets

Collection of Datasets

Stand-alone Dataset

ISSNDOI

ISSNDOI

DOI

DOI

Collections of key tables

Key tables

Key table editions

ISSNDOI

DOI

DOI

Cataloguing datasets and data tables

• In 2009, cataloguing of datasets and data tables in a central bibliographic database according to the new standards together with OECD books, journals and papers.– Hired statistical editors in Publishing

unit– Developed editorial quality standards

for datasets– Worked with authors to improve content– Hired a librarian to help catalogue

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Online publishing

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Datasets

Data tables

Collection of datasets

Book

Publishing datasets

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Publishing key tables

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Publishing tables in books

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Citation is at the dataset level

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Key tables are cited as part of a table collection

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Links between data and publications

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Links with other publications

• Each dataset and table is assigned a unique and persistent DOI referenced in CrossRef database, allowing linking between datasets and published articles, books, chapters, etc.

16Source: www.crossref.org on 2 December 2011

MARC records for datasets and key tables

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Tag Field Book Article Key table & collection

Collection of datasets Dataset

020 ISBN x x022 ISSN x x x024 Other ident. (DOI) x x x x x

040 Cataloguer x x x x x100 Author Main (ind) x x

110 Author Main (org) x x

245 Title x x x x x246 Title, varying form x x x x x

250 Edition x x260 Publisher x x x x x300 Physical Desc. x x310 Publication Freq. x x x362 Start/End x x x490 Series x x505 Contents x x520 Abstract x x x x x650 Theme x x x x x651 Country x x x x x700 Author 2nd. (ind) x x

710 Author2nd. (org) x x x x x

760 Main series x x762 SubSeries x x773 Host Item x x x774 Constituent Item x

775 Other Lang. x x x x x780 Continues x785 Continued by x830 Series x x856 URL x x x x x

Future work

• Standards and citation to be enhanced to manage dynamic and frequently updated datasets, static dataset editions and archives

• Export the publishing metadata to various channels, library catalogues, specialists portals such as www.repec.org, to increase discovery.

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Thank you

• Terri Mitton– Data Products Project Manager – OECD Publishing– terri.mitton@oecd.org

• Learn more in this White PaperGreen. T, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tableshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1787/787355886123

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