Talk given at the Oxford Future of Science conference on April 12, 2013.

1. Publishing Open Data: Incentivising Rigour
Brian Hole
Oxford Future of Science Conference, 12 April 2013
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3. The Social Contract
of Science
• Dissemination
• Validation
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Researchers
• Publishers
• Libraries, repositories…
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5. Openness can incentivise rigour in research
Wicherts JM, Bakker M, Molenaar D (2011) Willingness to Share Research Data Is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the
Quality of Reporting of Statistical Results. PLoS ONE 6(11): e26828. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026828
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6. Repositories
Modified from: XKCD
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7. Metajournals as incentives
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8. Data journals
• Data is already citable (e.g. with DataCite
DOIs) but this is not something
researchers are familiar with doing.
• Even when used, DataCite DOIs cannot
currently be used for citation tracking.
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9. What is a data paper?
A data paper…
• … describes the methodology with which
a dataset was created.
• … describes the dataset itself.
• … details the reuse potential of the data.
• … is often authored by a data scientist.
• … is citable, enabling reuse to be tracked.
A data paper is not…
• … a research paper. A data paper only
describes a dataset. But it will reference
research papers that are based on the data.
• … simply replication of the information in a
data repository.
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10. Peer review
1. The paper contents
a. The methods section of the paper must provide
sufficient detail that a reader can understand how
the resource was created.
b. The resource must be correctly described.
c. The reuse section must provide concrete and useful
suggestions for reuse of the reuse.
2. The deposited resource
a. The repository must be suitable for resource
and have a sustainability model.
b. Open license permits unrestricted access (e.g. CC0).
c. A version in an open, non-proprietary format.
d. Labeled in such a way that a 3rd party can make
sense of it.
e. Must be actionable.
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11. Low barriers are essential
• Online authoring
• Short, concise metadata format
• Repository integration
• Review best practices, not groundbreaking science
• £25 APC
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