Talk given at GBIF workshop at Kew Gardens 28 May 2012

1. @rdmpage
http://iphylo.blogspot.com
Making data sticky

2. Data

3. More data is good…

4. …but this data is not sticky

5. Location

8. Tags
name
name

9. name Namen

10. Identifiers

12. Shared identifiers are sticky

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

14. 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

15. Links

16. PMID:948206

17. http://biostor.org/reference/102054

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

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

21. Metrics

22. In an attempt to live up to that increasing
demand for documentation, the leadership of
the Natural History Museum of Denmark has
issued an order to its curatorial staff - The
staff members are requested to document
which publications from 2011, written
entirely by external scientists, that in one way
or another are based on material in the
collections of the Museum.
@TAXACOM http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen

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

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

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

26. 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 5818
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html

27. The value is in the links, not the nodes

28. 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)