RDA - Long Tail Data Interest Group - NPG Scientitic Data oveview

Supported by:!

Now open for submissions Launching May 2014

Susanna-Assunta Sansone Honorary Academic Editor (University of Oxford, UK)

Andrew L Hufton Managing Editor

Victoria Newman Editorial Curator

Ruth Wilson Publisher

www.nature.com/scientificdata scientificdata@nature.com @ScientificData

A new open-access, online-only publication for !descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets!

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Focusing initially on datasets from the !life, biomedical and environmental science communities!

Content type: Data Descriptor (with 2 components)!

Article or

narrative component (PDF and HTML)

Experimental metadata or

structured component (in-house curated, machine-readable formats)

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Data Descriptor - article !

Sections:!•  Title!•  Abstract!•  Background & Summary!•  Methods!•  Technical Validation!•  Data Records!•  Usage Notes !•  Figures & Tables !•  References!•  Data Citations!!

Data Descriptor - article !

Sections:!•  Title!•  Abstract!•  Background & Summary!•  Methods!•  Technical Validation!•  Data Records!•  Usage Notes !•  Figures & Tables !•  References!•  Data Citations!!

Data Descriptor – experimental metadata (CC0)!

Includes fields describing: •  each study, linking to relevant sections of the

Data Descriptor article •  authors’ details, including ORCID •  publications •  funding sources and funders’ name, via FundRef •  experimental factors •  study design •  assays •  protocols

analysis !method! script!

Data file or !record in a database!

Data Descriptor – experimental metadata (CC0)!

Data Descriptor – experimental metadata (CC0)!

In-house curation team: •  assists users to submit the structured content

via simple templates and an internal authoring tool

•  performs value-added semantic annotation of the experimental metadata

For advanced users/service providers willing to export ISA-Tab for direct submission, we will release a technical specification:

analysis !method! script!

Data file or !record in a database!

Get Credit for Sharing Your Data Publications will be listed in the major indexes and will be citeable

Open-access Each publication is supported by curated CC0 experimental metadata, explaining how the experiment was performed, tracking data provenance

Discovery and Reuse Standardized, structured and detailed descriptions make research data easier to find and reuse!

Peer-reviewed and Curated Rigorous peer-review managed by our Editorial Board of academics; in-house curation of the experimental metadata, also using community ontologies/terminologies

Promoting Community Data Repositories Data stored in community data repositories

Complementing both journal articles and data repositories ! Export to various formats

(ISA_tab, RDF, etc)

Complementing both journal articles and data repositories ! Export to various formats

(ISA_tab, RDF, etc)