Making data sticky

@rdmpagehttp://iphylo.blogspot.comMaking data sticky

More data is good…

…but this data is not sticky

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name Namen

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Shared identifiers are sticky

Identifiers• Globally unique• Resolvable (human and machine)• Used

Identifiers• http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-187 Extracting scientific articles from a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library• http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3pc64 Nexus file with the characters-taxa matrix used for the phylogenetic analysis• http://dx.doi.org/10.1601/nm.5037 Halobacillus

PMID:948206

http://biostor.org/reference/102054

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

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

Metrics

In an attempt to live up to that increasingdemand for documentation, the leadership ofthe Natural History Museum of Denmark hasissued an order to its curatorial staff - Thestaff members are requested to documentwhich publications from 2011, writtenentirely by external scientists, that in one wayor another are based on material in thecollections of the Museum. @TAXACOM http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen

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

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

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

Cited, linkable specimens NMNH Vertebrate Zoology 11194 Herpetology Collections Herpetology Collection (University of Kansas Biodiversity Research 9619 Center) CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog 6720 MCZ Herpetology Collection 5818http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html

The value is in the links, not the nodes

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)

Making data sticky

by Roderic Page on May 28, 2012

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