In a previous post, I looked at the Findability of FAIR data in common chemistry journals. Here I move on to the next letter, the A = Accessible.
Posts Tagged ‘Data management’
The “Accessible” in FAIR (data).
Thursday, April 18th, 2019Tags:Academic publishing, automatic processing, Data management, Digital Object Identifier, EIDR, FAIR data, Findability, Identifiers, Information, Information architecture, Information science, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, metadata, mining, Open Archives Initiative, RDF, Records management, representative, standardized communication protocol, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web design, Written communication, XML
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Questions about the (metadata) components of a scientific article.
Monday, April 8th, 2019The conventional procedures for reporting analysis or new results in science is to compose an “article”, augment that perhaps with “supporting information” or “SI”, submit to a journal which undertakes peer review, with revision as necessary for acceptance and finally publication. If errors in the original are later identified, a separate corrigendum can be submitted to the same journal, although this is relatively rare. Any new information which appears post-publication is then considered for a new article, and the cycle continues. Here I consider the possibilities for variations in this sequence of events.
Tags:Academic publishing, American Chemical Society, author, Business intelligence, Company: DataCite, CrossRef, data, Data management, DataCite, editor, EIDR, Information, Information science, JSON, Knowledge representation, Metadata repository, Records management, Technology/Internet, The Metadata Company
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“Richer metadata makes content more useful”
Saturday, February 16th, 2019The title of this post comes from the site www.crossref.org/members/prep/ Here you can explore how your favourite publisher of scientific articles exposes metadata for their journal.
Tags:Aaron Swartz, Academic publishing, API, Business intelligence, CrossRef, data, Data management, Elsevier, favourite publisher, Identifiers, Information, Information science, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, metadata, mining, ORCiD, PDF, Pre-exposure prophylaxis, Publishing, Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata, Records management, Research Object, Scholarly communication, Scientific literature, search engine, social media, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, text mining, Written communication, XML
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Re-inventing the anatomy of a research article.
Saturday, December 29th, 2018The traditional structure of the research article has been honed and perfected for over 350 years by its custodians, the publishers of scientific journals. Nowadays, for some journals at least, it might be viewed as much as a profit centre as the perfected mechanism for scientific communication. Here I take a look at the components of such articles to try to envisage its future, with the focus on molecules and chemistry.
Tags:Academic publishing, Acrobat, Articles, chemical discoveries, data, Data management, ELN, Information, Molecules, Narrative, PDF, Publishing, Research, Scholarly communication, Science, Scientific Journal, Scientific method, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web browser
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FAIR data ⇌ Raw data.
Thursday, December 7th, 2017FAIR data is increasingly accepted as a description of what research data should aspire to; Findable, Accessible, Inter-operable and Re-usable, with Context added by rich metadata (and also that it should be Open). But there are two sides to data, one of which is the raw data emerging from say an instrument or software simulations and the other in which some kind of model is applied to produce semi- or even fully processed/interpreted data. Here I illustrate a new example of how both kinds of data can be made to co-exist.
Tags:computing, Context, data, Data management, Information, Knowledge, Raw data, software simulations, Technology/Internet
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The provenance of scientific data – establishing an audit trail.
Thursday, March 30th, 2017In an era when alternative facts and fake news afflict us, the provenance of scientific data becomes ever more important. Especially if that data is available as open access and exploitable by others for both valid scientific reasons but potentially also by those with other motives. Here I consider the audit trail that might serve to establish data provenance in one typical situation in chemistry, the acquisition of NMR instrumental data.
Tags:Acquisition, Archival science, author, collection software, Company: NMR, data, Data management, data processing software, Evidence law, instrument data collection software, local authentication systems, Mestrenova, MestreNova system, Nuclear magnetic resonance, principal investigator, Provenance, Scientific method, service manager, spectrometer software, supervisor, Technology/Internet, Terminology
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Data-free research data management? Not an oxymoron.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016I occasionally post about "RDM" (research data management), an activity that has recently become a formalised essential part of the research processes. I say recently formalised, since researchers have of course kept research notebooks recording their activities and their data since the dawn of science, but not always in an open and transparent manner. The desirability of doing so was revealed by the 2009 "Climategate" events. In the UK, Climategate was apparently the catalyst which persuaded the funding councils (such as the EPSRC, the Royal Society, etc) to formulate policies which required all their funded researchers to adopt the principles of RDM by May 2015 and in their future researches. An early career researcher here, anxious to conform to the funding body instructions, sent me an email a few days ago asking about one aspect of RDM which got me thinking.
Tags:Academic publishing, chemical identifiers, chemical names and chemical terms, chemical tagger page, CrossRef, Data management, Data management plan, DataCite, Identifiers, ORCiD, RDM, researcher, Royal Society, Singular spectrum analysis, Technical communication, Technology/Internet
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Metametadata: data about data about (chemical) data.
Saturday, April 16th, 2016Scientists are familiar with the term data, at least in a scientific or chemical context, but appreciating metadata (meaning "after", or "beyond") is slightly more subtle, in the sense of using it to mean data about data. The challenge lies in clarifying where the boundary between data and its metadata lies and in specifying and controlling the vocabulary used for these metadata descriptions. Items in a chemical metadata dictionary might include e.g. subject classifications such as Organic Molecular Chemistry or identifiers such as InChIkey. But what could metametadata be? Here I briefly show some examples by way of illustration.
Tags:Academic publishing, automated software analysis, BASE, chemical context, Chemical Database Service, chemical metadata, chemical metadata dictionary, chemical space, City: Cambridge, Data dictionary, Data management, Identifiers, Knowledge representation, programmer, Registry of Research Data Repositories, search.datacite.org/api, SPECTRa, Technology/Internet
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Personal web pages on digital repositories.
Saturday, June 20th, 2015The university sector in the UK has quality inspections of its research outputs conducted every seven years, going by the name of REF or Research Excellence Framework. The next one is due around 2020, and already preparations are under way! Here I describe how I have interpreted one of its strictures; that all UK funded research outputs (i.e. research publications in international journals) must be made available in open unrestricted form within three months of the article being accepted for publication, or they will not be eligible for consideration in 2020.
Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, Archival science, author, Data management, Digital library, EPrints, Institutional repository, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, Library science, metadata, Open access, PDF, personal web page, Preprint, Publishing, Repository, researcher, ROMEO GREEN, Science, Technology/Internet, United Kingdom, web server
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