Presentation given at the VU University Amsterdam Mini-symposium on Open Data for Science: Will it help or hurt? March 14, 2012

1. OPEN DATA
READY, SET, GO!
Paul Groth
Twitter: @pgroth
Blog: thinklinks.wordpress.com
http://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth

2. The Science Lifecycle Virtual Learning
Undergraduate
Environment Students
Next Generation
Researchers
Digital
Libraries scientists Graduate
Students
Reprints
Peer-
Reviewed Technical
experimentation
Journal & Preprints Reports
Conference &
Papers Metadata
Local Data, Metadata,
Web Provenance, Scripts,
Repositories
Certified
Workflows, Services,
Experimental Results
Ontologies, Blogs, ...
& Analyses
Adapted from David De Roure’s slides

3. TWO STORIES
THE CONSUMER AND PRODUCER

4. MEET JULIE
PhD Student
“institutional influences on
patterns of collaboration in
producing research of
interdisciplinary character”
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5. Julie needs data
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6. I AM NOT A LAWYER
Web of Knowledge Terms of Use
You are entitled to access the product, download or extract reasonable amounts of data from the
product that are required for the activities you carry out individually or as part of your employment, and
include insubstantial portions of extracted data in your work documents and reports, provided that such
documents or reports are for the benefit of (and belong to) your organization, or where such documents
or reports are intended for the benefit of third parties (not your organization ), extracted data is
immaterial in the context of such documents or reports and used only for illustrative/demo purposes.
Thomson Reuters determines a “reasonable amount” of data to download by comparing your download
activity against the average annual download rates for all Thomson Reuters clients using the product in
question. Thomson Reuters determines an “insubstantial portion” of downloaded data to mean an
amount of data taken from the product which (1) would not have significant commercial value of its
own; and (2) would not act as a substitute for access to a Thomson Reuters product for someone who
does not have access to the product.
You are not entitled to do anything that would cause a breach of the terms of the agreement between
your organization and Thomson Reuters, such as (1) allowing anyone else to use your
username/password, (2) downloading excessive amounts of data, (3) providing data to anyone else,
other than in licensed, source-acknowledged documents or reports created as part of your normal work,
(4) archiving or using downloaded data to create a derivative database or metrics, (5) using the product
or any downloaded data to provide services to anyone outside your organization, or (6) using the
product in a way that risks damaging, disabling, overburdening or impairing the operation of the
product, or any other person’s use or enjoyment of the product.
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9. OPEN DATA: 2 WEEKS  15 MINUTES
SELECT ?author ?affiliation ?uriAffiliation WHERE
{
GRAPH <$graph> {
{<$article> swrc:author ?author.
OPTIONAL{?author swrc:affiliation ?uriAffiliation.}
OPTIONAL{?author swc:affiliation ?affiliation.} }
UNION {
<$article> foaf:maker ?author.
OPTIONAL{?author swrc:affiliation ?uriAffiliation.}
OPTIONAL{?author swc:affiliation ?affiliation.}
}
UNION {
<$article> dc:creator ?author.
OPTIONAL{?author swrc:affiliation ?uriAffiliation.}
OPTIONAL{?author swc:affiliation ?affiliation.}
}
}
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10. PRODUCER
INSTITUTION

11. PRODUCER
PERSONAL

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17. ERR….SUPPORT?
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18. 5 TAKE-AWAYS
1. Open Data is a boon to young scientists as consumers
2. Trade-offs for producers of open data
3. Producers need support
4. Clear simple guidelines for data publication
5. Data citation is a key to open data
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