Publishing and Cataloguing DatasetsIt’s time everyone got involved

UKSG Conference 2009

BUT FIRST, LET’S GET SERIOUS

Part 1OECD likes being cool with data.

TIB in Hamburg say they have archived and added DOIs to

500,000 datasets.Yet their most-cited dataset has

been cited just 3 times.

Some data to start with

Either no-one wants to cite data

OR, having a DOI by itself isn’t enough

So …

Let us imagine for a moment . . .

If an article is . . .

A piece of data that is presented in a static, two-dimensional, form.

“ “Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef, 2007

• Print

• HTML• PDF

Static, two-dimensional objects

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787.280675838368

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787.280675838368

Active, two-dimensional object

Another active,

two-dimensional object?

It’s a view on a datacube

In fact, it’s a view on a collection of datacubes

Active,

multi-dimensional object!

OECD Article

Static, two-dimensional

object

OECD Excel TableActive, two-dimensional

object

OECD Database

Active, multi-dimensional

object

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doi.org/10

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So, instead of imagining, let’s say

we built this.

We’d get something like . . .

Dataset OECD Regional Database

Excel – Active two-

dimensional object

Dataset – Active multi-

dimensional object

PDF – Passive two-

dimensional object

. . . this.

OK – that’s cool and OECD can do this because we have

all the objects in our publishing system.

But how are other publishers, authors and

librarians coping with data?

Source: OECD

Chart from The Economist

Source: Acemoglu et al (2001), based on Curtin, 1989, Philip D. Curtin, Death by migration: Europe’s encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press, New York

(1989).Curtin 1989 and other sources.

Tertiary school enrollment: School enrollment, tertiary (% of gross).

Source: Barro and Lee (2000) and their databases.

Taken from an appendix to an article published in Elsevier’s World Development

You can’t fault the author for trying . . .but it’s not a lot of help for a reader

And Librarians,

How many are cataloguing datasets in their OPACs in ways which are compatible with search systems for books and journals?

Conclusion: Datasets:Scholarly Publishing’s Black

Sheep?

A&I & subject portals Publishers

Library portals

Content Aggregators

EconLitRePEc

ScienceDirect

OPACs

Ingenta

Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books

Network

A&I & subject portals Publishers

Library portals

Content Aggregators

EconLitRePEc

ScienceDirect

OPACs

Ingenta

Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books

Network

A&I & subject portals Publishers

Library portals

Content Aggregators

EconLitRePEc

ScienceDirect

OPACs

Ingenta

Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and Books

Network

Using metadata for: Datasets

In the same industry standard formats as . . .Book chapters

andJournal articles

Authors will be able to cite . . .

Publishers will be able to link . . .

Discovery systems will be able to find . . .

Librarians will be able to catalogue . .

.

Datasets alongside published outputs . . .

. . . to the benefit of Everyone

A proposed example of a dataset using standard bibliographic and citation metadata.

Bibliography of Books that

cite this database

Citation tool compatible with EndNotes et al

Dataset title with ISSN,

DOI (& MARC) record

There are still challenges:- Dynamic data- Versioning- Preservation

But, let’s round the sheep up first.

OECD is:• issuing a white paper on

Publishing Standards for Datasets

• Speaking with CrossRef about citation standards for dynamic objects

• publishing OECD datasets with ‘sheepdogs’ from mid-2009:

MARC recordsONIX recordsCitation records

End of Part One

QUESTIONS?

DISCUSSION?

BEING COOL WITH DATA: OECD’S FIRST STEPS

Part 2

March 2007

Print editionWeb-book on SourceOECDUSB Key EditionOECD Factbook on eXplorer (new for 2009)OECD Factbook on iPhone (new for 2009)

April 2009

OECD Regional Statistics data using the eXplorer tool tool

OECD Regional Statistics using NCVA’s eXplorer tool

October 2008March 2009

http://stats.oecd.org/OECDregionalstatistics/

Other cool visualisation stuff

• IMF Datamapper on www.imf.org. See also www.mappingworlds.com who provided the technology.

• See Gapcasts and Trendalyzer on www.gapminder.org

• The New York Times uses a lot of dynamic graphics

• USA Today built their reputation on graphics – now they’re doing it online. We like How much is $700bn?

• Economist’s Chart Gallery generate a lot of comment.

• Data sharing sites include www.swivel.com, www.many-eyes.com an newcomers www.icharts.net and www.widgenie.com .

• There are many blogs on charts or visualization such as www.flowingdata.com or www.eagereyes.org