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IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences and beyond.
How do you cite GIS materials such as map, GIS data, and GIS software? Listed here are examples on how to cite GIS work.
This paper present some indications of the existence of a Citation Advantage related to linked data, using astrophysics as a case. Using simple measures, I find that the Citation Advantage presently (at the least since 2009) amounts to papers with links to data receiving on the average 50% more citations per paper per year, than the papers without links to data. A similar study by other authors should a cummulative effect after several years amounting to 20%. Hence, a Data Sharing Citation Advantage seems inevitable.
Britain's Royal Society wants the government and universities to give equal stature to datasets and to publications.
What Makes a Dataset Citable? Before assigning a DOI to a dataset, certain criteria must be met, namely that the cited dataset has to be: Stable: not subject to modificaton. Complete: not subject to updates. Permanent: by assigning a DOI, data centres are committing themselves to making the dataset available for the foreseeable future. Of good (technical) quality: by assigning a DOI, data centres are giving it a ‘stamp of approval’, stating it is complete with all metadata made available.
towards a fairer culture of citation in academia
I was invited to give a talk to the British Geological Survey on the 25th January, on the topic of data citation and publishing, and why it...
Below is the rough text of my #idcc11 (International Data Curation Conference) talk. Slides at slideshare, updated now to now include (very tiny) text in speaker notes on each slide. [Anyone kno…
DataCite -
Presentation given by Heather Piwowar at the JISC Managing Research Data workshop on March 29 2011 in Birmingham UK.
Introduces additive, "sheer" data curation. Also interesting Fedora bits.
The DataCite Metadata Scheme has been finalized and is now available here (http://datacite.org/schema/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.0.pdf). After many months and a lot of very early morning conference calls with my European colleagues, I am delighted to make this announcement. The core group that wo
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