New Metaphors: Data Papers and Data Citations

New Metaphors: Data Papers and Data Cita4ons

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U C C u r a 4 o n C e n t e r

C a l i f o r n i a D i g i t a l L i b r a r y

Metaphors we live by

“... metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and ac4on. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

From Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, 1980

(thanks to Parsons & Fox, Is Data Publica8on the Right Metaphor?, 2011)

Digital = Metaphorical

Everything is a story on top of sequences of bits •  Fonts, files, folders, formaXng, phone calls

•  Programs, protocols, data, tweets, even bits

Old metaphors can impede technical change

Disrup4ve technical change is inevitable

Roadmap for today’s talk

• Who we are

• What’s changed • Forced incrementalism • Data cita4on • Tradi4onal ar4cles • Data papers • Closing metaphor

California Digital Library (CDL)

California Digital Library – born 1997

CDL supports the research lifecycle

•  Collec4ons

•  Digital Special Collec4ons

•  Discovery & Delivery •  Publishing Group

•  UC Cura4on Center (UC3)

University of California stakeholders

•  10 campuses

•  226K students, 134K faculty & staff

•  100’s of museums, art galleries, observatories, marine centers, botanical gardens

•  5 medical centers

•  5 law schools

•  3 Dept. of Energy na4onal labs

Our environment circa 2002-‐2008

Focus on preserva4on

For memory organiza4ons

Infrastructure: sta4c

Services: hosted

Content: museum & library

Sustainability: ?

Our environment since 2008

  cura8on (lifecycle)   and now data producers + cloud, vm, bitbucket

  + partnered, self-‐serve   data, web crawls cost recovery, pay once

Focus on preserva4on

For memory organiza4ons

Infrastructure: sta4c

Services: hosted

Content: museum & library

Sustainability: ?

Journal expenditures are outpacing library budgets

The Library Reality

•  Journal expenditures rising

•  Increase in research publica4on

•  Increase in researchers

•  Declining budgets

The Library Reality •  Journal

expenditures rising




(Mabe, 2003) The growth of acEve, peer reviewed learned journals since 1665


expenditures rising




(Mabe 2004, based on data from ISI and NSF)


expenditures rising




Trends create a structural problem; calls on libraries to do more with less

Trends create a structural problem; climb the mountain step by step ...

Or look for a radical solu4on?

Prac8cal incrementalism for the complex problem of data cura8on

•  Baby steps – data paper/cita4on metaphors •  Chipping away – making the problem smaller •  DataONE global data network [NSF] •  Merrio data repository •  EZID for crea4ng DOIs, ARKs, and URNs •  Data management plans (DMPTool)

•  Web archiving service (WAS) [Library of Congress] •  Open-‐source Excel add-‐in [MS Research & GBMF]

The scien4fic record is at risk

Data dissemina4on is rare, risky, expensive, labor-‐intensive, domain-‐specific, and receives liole credit as research output

Global Change Galac4c Change

What data cita4on offers

•  Credit •  Discovery •  Impact tracking – Helping data authors verify use of their data and – Helping iden4fy how others have used the data

•  With archiving: re-‐use and reproducibility

Tradi4onal ar4cles vs data papers

Need to save data + processing

Parallel pyramids

The collec4ve data product

Need to save data + processing

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

Vision for a “data paper”

•  Wrap the unfamiliar in a familiar façade

•  A “data paper” is minimally a cover sheet and a set of links to archived ar4facts

•  Cover sheet contains familiar elements: 4tle, date, authors, abstract, and persistent iden4fier (DOI, ARK, etc.)

•  Just enough to permit basic exposure and discovery

– Building a basic data cita4on –  Indexing by services such as Web of Science, Google Scholar

–  Ins4lling confidence in the iden4fier’s stability

Data Papers at the CDL UC CuraEon Center

•  Merrio Cura4on repository

•  EZID: Persistent id management and resolu4on (ARKs, DOIs, et al.)

Publishing Services Program

•  Online journals, with peer review

•  Scholarly communica4on: grey literature to post-‐prints

•  Search and display tools (XTF)

Provide incremental benefit for incremental effort

... plus nano-‐publicaEons and executable papers.

Data paper: envisioned outcomes

•  Familiar look and feel eases adop4on and indexing

•  Aoribu4on mo4vates deposit •  Stable storage and ids leads to cita4on and impact •  Data products enter the record instead of being lost •  Data journals spring up around disciplines

Metaphors we close with

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

OTOH, “the more things change the more they remain the same”

Ques4ons?

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California Digital Library hop://www.cdlib.org/

“Data Paper” Paper: hop://escholarship.org/uc/item/9jw4964t

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