Publishing Official Datasets

4th Bloomsbury Conference on

e-Publishing and e-Publications 24th and 25th June , 2010

Toby GreenOECD Publishing

Publishing Official Data in cool ways since 1961

Climategate! “investigation reveals scientific concern about missing tree ring data”. The

Guardian, January 2010

Would it have been lost had it been properly published and curated?Should we rely on authors to self-publish data?

Data is not second class stuff. It should be just as easy to:• peer review

• publish• citeas research articles.

We simply need the existing scholarly publishing ‘toolkit’:• review mechanism

• metadata• doi identifiers• CrossRef

Here’s one OECD prepared earlier . . .

So, whereas for books we have this:

For datasets we could have this:

But data is not the same as an article or book chapter, Sub-sets can be published.

Data subset seriesHomepage

Subset 1Homepage

Subset 2Homepage

Subset 3Homepage

DOI: 1234.56/Subset#3

Sub-sets: each has unique identifier, with links to the ‘mother’ dataset

DOI: 1234.56/Subset#2

DOI: 1234.56/Subset#1

DOI: 1234.56/Series

DOI link to: Main dataset

DOI link to: Main dataset

DOI link to: Main dataset

The same data can have a different rendition or graphical interface

Dataset‘Homepage’

Rendition 1 Rendition 2 Rendition 3

Datasets with multiple renditions: same identifier

Datasets can grow.

Our current solution is to give them the same

identifier andexplain the growth in the metadata

Datasets can change.

Our current solution is to give them a NEW

identifier, explain the change in the metadata,

and provide a link back to the original dataset.

http://doi.org/abr

Read all about it!

Jim Gray’s data ‘era’ (2008)OECD’s “stuff machine” (2010)

Publications

Processed dataData Presentations

Data

Publisher Responsibility

Statistician and Researcher Responsibility

Data publishing workflow at OECD

Data producer (author)

Data Editor Data ProductionEditor

Data Operations

Data Marketing & Support

Selection, Quality Assurance, Metadata,Acronym killing,Packaging

DOI allocation,Technical checks.

Hosting,Infrastructure

Promotion,Training,Support,Discovery optimisation

End User and Librarian Feedback

RegistrationCertification

Stewardship

Awareness

toby.green@oecd.org

I can end it here, or is there time for more?

http://statlinks.oecdcode.org/

Great visualisations tell stories

Charles Minard's 1869 chart showing the losses in men, their movements, and the temperature of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign.

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OECD Factbloghttps://community.oecd.org/community/factblog/blog/2010/05/11/tax-who-pays-what

OECD graph generatorhttp://viz.oecdcode.org/ts/20755104-table1/latest

 

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Why my musician brother grows his own food http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/

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Pimp my data

PIMP KITS and SITES FOR SHARING DATA

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toby.green@oecd.org

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