NRC-CISTI’s data registration agency for Canada

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

fyi - this is very cool!  Glen, can help me better understand this if you know more about it and why it is significant.  I know it is as I have been in enough linked data, semantic web and super computer circles to have heard the concept discussed, and therefore know it is really important but am unable to translate my hunch into words.

 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:50:59 -0500
From: NRC-CISTI Clients - Clients de l'ICIST-CNRC
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Subject: NRC-CISTI's Update on DataCite Canada | Le point sur DataCite  Canada
 de l'ICIST-CNRC
To: "'[hidden email]'"
 December 15, 2010

Update on NRC-CISTI’s data registration agency for Canada

NRC-CISTI establishes DataCite Canada web presence
 
Ottawa, ON (December 15, 2010) – As announced earlier this fall, NRC’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) is in the process of establishing a central research dataset registration service for Canada.
 
In an initial step, NRC-CISTI has created a series of DataCite Canada web pages. The intent of these pages is to provide an overview of the initiative and answer basic questions about how the research data registration service will work. The pages will be regularly updated with the latest information as it becomes available. Contact information is available for those interested in finding out more about both the technical and non-technical aspects of DataCite Canada.
 
The DataCite Canada service will provide a mechanism for Canadian datacentres to register datasets and assign unique, persistent digital object identifiers (DOIs) to them. Registration of datasets with DOIs makes data more highly visible and easier to access. DOIs provide long-term links to datasets and allow published articles to link to their underlying data.
 
As a next step, DataCite Canada will invite a small number of Canadian datacentres to pilot the registration service and feed into its development to ensure it meets the needs of the community.
NRC-CISTI expects to launch DataCite Canada’s registration service in early 2011. DataCite Canada will also offer a searchable database of metadata describing the registered datasets.
 
NRC-CISTI is a member of DataCite, an international consortium of libraries and research organizations committed to increasing access to research data on the internet. NRC-CISTI is DataCite’s DOI allocation agent for Canada.
 
For more information, contact Karen Morgenroth, NRC-CISTI’s Manager Content Access Services at [hidden email].

If you would like to be added to our mailing list for future updates, please email: [hidden email].

 

 

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[Glen Newton]

Hey Tracie,

Up until now, academics have been measured by the papers they produce. Any efforts to get them to manage and release their data (with exceptions in certain disciplines) have not been very successful. Researchers just see this as time taken away from research, planning and doing experiments, and writing grants and papers. If they are not rewarded with sharing data, why should they do it?

This effort is meant to fix this (as well as help other things): now an academic can 'publish' a dataset, get a digital object identifier for it, and cite it. And others can also cite it. Just like a paper. So there is now a professional incentive to publish datasets.

The review process for academics should shift so that the publishing of a dataset will also be counted (albeit usually less than a paper, although high impact datasets will have, er, high impact) in their academic evaluation (i.e. advancement, tenure, ...).

So now datasets - that may not be reproducible and may have cost $$$ - that would previously have languished and eventually lost when the academic retired or changed computers, now have a chance to be shared, reused, mashed-up, etc.

This also helps in other ways: datasets will have DOIs, which will point to where they reside, which suggests that someone might actually be looking after them, perhaps in data institutional repositories, etc. Re-use and combining data will become more common. A culture of data sharing just might come out of this!

I've attached a diagram that I made (after another author) for a recent paper I co-authored. It represents what happens now to academic data.

This is excellent news!

-Glen

http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

fyi - this is very cool!  Glen, can help me better understand this if you know more about it and why it is significant.  I know it is as I have been in enough linked data, semantic web and super computer circles to have heard the concept discussed, and therefore know it is really important but am unable to translate my hunch into words.

 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:50:59 -0500
From: NRC-CISTI Clients - Clients de l'ICIST-CNRC
 <>
Subject: NRC-CISTI's Update on DataCite Canada | Le point sur DataCite  Canada
 de l'ICIST-CNRC
To: "'[hidden email]'"
 December 15, 2010

Update on NRC-CISTI’s data registration agency for Canada

NRC-CISTI establishes DataCite Canada web presence
 
Ottawa, ON (December 15, 2010) – As announced earlier this fall, NRC’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) is in the process of establishing a central research dataset registration service for Canada.
 
In an initial step, NRC-CISTI has created a series of DataCite Canada web pages. The intent of these pages is to provide an overview of the initiative and answer basic questions about how the research data registration service will work. The pages will be regularly updated with the latest information as it becomes available. Contact information is available for those interested in finding out more about both the technical and non-technical aspects of DataCite Canada.
 
The DataCite Canada service will provide a mechanism for Canadian datacentres to register datasets and assign unique, persistent digital object identifiers (DOIs) to them. Registration of datasets with DOIs makes data more highly visible and easier to access. DOIs provide long-term links to datasets and allow published articles to link to their underlying data.
 
As a next step, DataCite Canada will invite a small number of Canadian datacentres to pilot the registration service and feed into its development to ensure it meets the needs of the community.
NRC-CISTI expects to launch DataCite Canada’s registration service in early 2011. DataCite Canada will also offer a searchable database of metadata describing the registered datasets.
 
NRC-CISTI is a member of DataCite, an international consortium of libraries and research organizations committed to increasing access to research data on the internet. NRC-CISTI is DataCite’s DOI allocation agent for Canada.
 
For more information, contact Karen Morgenroth, NRC-CISTI’s Manager Content Access Services at [hidden email].

If you would like to be added to our mailing list for future updates, please email: [hidden email].

 

 

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