Work Session on Statistical Metadata (METIS)

Terri Mitton, 10 March 2010

Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables

…to search across millions of articles, books, journals…

Researchers use discovery tools

…to scholarly articles

and book chapters.

Researchers follow links

…for datasets.

But the links are broken

Source: OECD

Chart from The Economist

Here’s Why

Source: Acemoglu et al (2001), based on Curtin, 1989, Philip D. Curtin, Death by migration: Europe’s encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press, New York

(1989).Curtin 1989 and other sources.

Tertiary school enrollment: School enrollment, tertiary (% of gross).

Source: Barro and Lee (2000) and their databases.

Taken from an appendix to an article published in Elsevier’s World Development

. . . and again why . . .

How many are cataloguing datasets?

. . . and Librarians…

Datasets:Scholarly Publishing’s Lost Sheep?

By creating metadata for: Datasets

In the same industry standard formats as . . .Book chapters

andJournal articles

Authors will be able to cite . . .

Publishers will be able to link . . .

Discovery systems will be able to find . . .

Librarians will be able to catalogue . .

.

Datasets alongside published outputs . . .

. . . to the benefit of Everyone

And here's how . . . . . . it can be done

Related Titles

Title, ISSN, DOI)

Citation tool for datasets

Search across content types

Table

Chapter

Table

Working Paper

Data

OECD:• is working with others on

Publishing Standards for Datasets

• is working with CrossRef on citation standards for dynamic objects

• Will be pushing metadata for datasets to Scopus, Google Scholar et al

You can learn more in this White PaperGreen. T, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/787355886123

Thank you

“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to FIND it.”Samuel Johnson, British Author

Terri MittonProject Manager, OECD Publishingterri.mitton@oecd.org