Data Management

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Fri, 2012-05-25 10:38

Data Management

There are several important issues related to data management that share relevance to publishers, editors and librarians, including:

The increasing amount of supplemental material now being submitted in support of articles. We are witnessing a growing tendency by authors to delegate, either implicitly or explicitly, to publishers the responsibility for sharing the data associated with their published articles. Subtopics under this include:

Lack of peer review for supplemental data
Uneven expectations and standards for submission of supplemental data
Commitment of publishers to long-term hosting of supplemental data
Indexing and searching supplemental data; data mining
Copyrights and property rights associated with supplemental data

Linking from published articles to data stored within institutional data repositories.
Receiving credit as an author for shared data used by others and how best to cite shared data so it can be tracked and analyzed like traditional article citations.
Establishing common ontologies and/or data dictionaries for describing published shared data.
The potential roles of commercial publishers and libraries in establishing, hosting and managing data repositories.

All parties, publishers, editors and librarians, have a vested interest in seeing these issues addressed in order to ensure clarity and consistency for authors and establish guidelines for data management responsibility among publishers, libraries, and authors. The Chicago Collaborative is well positioned to begin a dialog on these issues that can serve as a communication tool for educating the various stakeholders.

We want to hear what you think about these issues as well as any others that you think are relevant. Feel free to comment!

(Thanks to Paul Schoening for creating this forum)

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RESOURCES that may serve as a starting point to learn more about these issues are provided below.

Schriger, et al. Use of the internet by print medical journals in 2003 to 2009:A longitudinal observational study. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Volume 57, Issue 2, February 2011, Pages 153-160.e3. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064410016483

(Includes a discussion of the growth of supplementary materials in a sample of medical journals.)

Anderson, et al. On the persistence of supplementary resources in biomedical publications. BMC Bionformatics. 2006, 7:260.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/260

Information Standards Quarterly

http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/free/Beebe_SuppMatls_WG_ISQ_v22no3.pdf

NISO/NFAIS Supplemental Journal Article Materials Project

http://www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental

Supplemental Journal Article Materials Thought Leader Meeting

http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/supplementary/

20 May 2012. Council of Science Editors 2012 Annual Meeting: Supplemental Information: Who’s Doing What and Why, Alexander (‘Sasha’) Schwarzman (includes a graph showing the increase in supplemental materials in The Journal of Clinical Investigation)

http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=8591&wg_abbrev=supptechnical

The Scientist: Supplemental or Detrimental?

http://classic.the-scientist.com/news/display/58027/

Research Remix: Refs on Supplementary Material

http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/refs-on-supplementary-material/

D-Lib Magazine. Volume 17, Number 1/2, January/February 2012.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january11/01contents.html (special issue on data management)

Simon, N. Implementing DOIs for Research Data. D-Lib Magazine. Volume 18, Number 5/6, May/June 2012.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may12/simons/05simons.html

e-Science Portal for New England Librarians: a librarian’s link to e-Science resources. Data Support Services

http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/data_support_services

DataCite: Helping you to find, access, and reuse data.