Presentation by David Shotton on Force11 and the Amsterdam Manifesto on data citation and then introducing the final panel session at the Now and Future of Data Publishing Symposium, 22 May 2013, Oxford, UK

1. Oxford e-Research Centre
University of Oxford, UK
Now and Future of
Data Publishing 2013
Plenary Panel Two
Oxford 22 May
Where do we want to go?
What are the challenges facing data
publication?
Are the right partners involved?
What is the optimal future of data publication?
© David Shotton, 2013 Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licence
e-mail: david.shotton@oerc.ox.ac.uk
David Shotton

2. Force11 - background
 Force11 (The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship;
http://www.force11.org/) is a virtual community working to transform scholarly
communications toward improved knowledge creation and sharing
 It arose as a consequence of a workshop on The Future of Research
Communications held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in the August 2011
 That meeting led to the publication of a white paper entitled
Improving Future Research Communication and e-Scholarship:
http://www.force11.org/sites/default/files/book_attachments/Force11Manifest
o20120219.pdf
 Currently, we have 363 active members, and we invite you to join
 In March 2013, Force11 organized a great conference in Amsterdam
 Beyond the PDF 2
http://www.force11.org/beyondthepdf2
 The Amsterdam Manifesto on Data Citation
resulted from that conference

3. The Force11 Amsterdam Manifesto on Data Citation
 Initiated by Mercè Crosas, Director of Data Science at
the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at
Harvard University
 The result of a lunch-time brainstorming session during
the Beyond the PDF 2 Conference
 Available at
http://www.force11.org/AmsterdamManifesto
 The Amsterdam Manifesto reads:
We wish to promote best practices in data citation to facilitate access to data
sets and to enable attribution and reward for those who publish data.
Through formal data citation, the contributions to science by those that
share their data will be recognized and potentially rewarded.
To that end, we propose that:

4. The Force11 Amsterdam Manifesto on Data Citation
1. Data should be considered citable products of research
2. Such data should be held in persistent public repositories
3. If a publication is based on data not included with the article, those data
should be cited in the publication
4. A data citation in a publication should resemble a bibliographic citation
and be located in the publication’s reference list
5. Such a data citation should include a unique persistent identifier
(a DataCite DOI recommended, or other persistent identifiers already in
use within the community)
6. The identifier should resolve to a page that either provides direct access to
the data or information concerning its accessibility. Ideally, that landing
page should be machine-actionable to promote interoperability of the data
7. If the data are available in different versions, the identifier should provide a
method to access the previous or related versions
8. Data citation should facilitate attribution of credit to all contributors

5. The Force11 Amsterdam Manifesto on Data Citation
 We wanted to keep the manifesto statements short, without so many
qualifiers and explanations as to make it heavy and unreadable
 Rather, we attempted to state its eight distinct principles as briefly and clearly
as possible
 The Amsterdam Manifesto was winner of the conference 1K Challenge
 “What would you do with $1K that would significantly advance scholarly
communication that does not involve building a new software tool?”
 We asked for funds to set up and manage a web site on which to post
the Amsterdam Manifesto for Data Citation
 Thanks the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the 1K Challenge Sponsor
 We invite all of you to endorse the Amsterdam Manifesto, which you can do
online at
http://www.force11.org/node/4370

6. The panel members and their topics
Eefke Smit (Director, Standards & Technology, STM Publishers Association)
Should journals scrap 'supplementary material'?
Bill Michener (Principle Investigator, DataONE; Dryad board member)
Can institutional data repositories and subject-
specific data repositories co-exist?
Brian Hole (Publisher, Ubiquity Press)
Is the 'data journal' a convenient fiction?
Susan Reilly (Project Officer, LIBER – Assoc. European Research Libraries)
Why should libraries curate data?
Mark Thorley (NERC, Chair RCUK Research Outputs Network)
Can we afford universal data publication?
Sarah Callaghan (Senior Research Scientist, British Atmospheric Data Centre)
Data and society – how can we ensure future
political decisions are evidence-led?

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