1.
Dan Valen, figshare
2.2017
Metadata and the [Data] Repository

2.
Why research data repositories?
• Funder Mandates
• Publisher Mandates
• FACTS (aka, data or it didn’t happen)
Source: hJp://datasharing.sparcopen.org/data

3.
Drivers: Governments aligning to support public
access of research
OSTP Memo
NIH, NSF, NOAA, SI, and more…
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy
FASTR
Other Agency/Funder Policies
ie: Gates, Moore, Sloan, NEH, Howard Hughes
Concordat on Open Research Data
(HEFCE, RCUK, UUK, Wellcome Trust),
EPSRC, and more
Horizon 20/20
OpenAIRE
North America
UK / Europe
Australia
ARC – data management plan
expecta^on from researchers
Australia Na^onal Data Service –
suppor^ng the sector, Ins^tu^onal Data
Management Frameworks

4.
Drivers: Nudge the system towards promo^ng
research integrity

5.
Source: hJp://www.dlib.org/dlib/january15/01guest_editorial.html
Drivers: Data as a “first-class ci^zen”,
Transparency, and the 3 Rs

6.
Source: hJps://www.rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/aJachment/The%20Data%20Harvest%20Final.pdf

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So what is the community doing to make data
discoverable?
Source: hJp://www.niso.org/apps/
group_public/download.php/15375/
PrimerRDM-2015-0727.pdf

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Standards and the community
Source: hJp://rd-alliance.github.io/metadata-directory/standards/ + hJp://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/subject-areas/physical-science

9.
Adhering to
Force11 Joint Declara^on
of Data Cita^on principles
(for discovery)…
Source: hJps://www.force11.org/group/joint-declara^on-data-cita^on-principles-final Source: hJps://thlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/spotlight-on-data-cita^on-index/
PREAMBLE
Sound, reproducible scholarship rests upon a founda^on
of robust, accessible data. For this to be so in prac^ce as
well as theory, data must be accorded due importance in
the prac^ce of scholarship and in the enduring scholarly
record. In other words, data should be considered
legi^mate, citable products of research. Data cita^on,
like the cita^on of other evidence and sources, is good
research prac^ce and is part of the scholarly ecosystem
suppor^ng data reuse.
In support of this asser^on, and to encourage good
prac^ce, we offer a set of guiding principles for data
within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other
research object.

10.
Data FAIRport. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 June 2016.

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What’s out there?

12.
The Generalist Repository

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A look at the generalist data repo
Source: hJps://zenodo.org/dev#harvest-metadata

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Metadata at Zenodo: behind the scenes

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Metadata at Zenodo: the “finished” product
Source: hJps://zenodo.org/record/313122

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Metadata at figshare: OAI-PMH

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Metadata at figshare: behind the scenes

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Metadata at figshare: the “finished” product
Source: hJps://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.104616.v4

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Data repos, metadata, and discovery
Source: hJp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-what-is-a-meta-search-engine/

20.
Index content for discovery in Google + Google
Scholar
Can expose hidden content within published ar^cles

21.
Google and Datasets (tabular data and beyond)
Source: hJps://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/datasets

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Addi^onal ways to discover content: SHARE
hJps://share.osf.io/discover?sources=figshare

23.
Addi^onal ways to discover content:
DataCite + the importance of metadata
Source: hJps://search.datacite.org

24.
Mapping to different metadata standards is
tough…
Source: hJp://jennriley.com/metadatamap/

25.
From a data model perspec^ve, this problem
has at least one solu^on
• RDF (machine readable format to describe
anything)
• Ontology (a machine readable dic^onary for
gepng meaning from RDF)

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Challenges and next steps
• Expose metadata as RDF or LD and allow folks to build extensions or
mappings between what community has and other formats
• Common metadata standards
• (ie: from CRIS/RIM -> paper repo -> data repo -> through to)
• OAI-PMH - doesn’t support versioning/wasn’t designed with that in
mind & lacks informa^on on the actual files related to metadata
records and that might be of use for some people… so JSON-LD via
the API?
• Automated metadata capture and genera^on upon upload
Image courtesy of sheffield.figshare.com

27.
Thank you so much
for your ^me
dan@figshare.com
@figshare
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