Publication and Dissemination of Data

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of DataJames Baker, Lecturer in Digital

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Session Plan

1) Good places to put your data2) What to put with your data3) Examples of best and no-so-best practice4) Group work: critique5) Individual work: sign-up, deposit data

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1) Places to put your data

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1) Places to put your dataZenodo

GoodEC, CERN, OpenAIREGenerates DOIsORCID integrationWell supportedGitHub integrationWell used (50k deposits since 2013)

2GB file sizeFlexible

BadSlightly clunky2GB can prove small

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1) Places to put your dataFigshare

GoodGenerates DOIsORCID integrationPro look and feelVery well used (500k deposits since2013)

5GB file sizeFlexible

BadOwnership?Bit of a free for all

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1) Places to put your dataUK Data Archive/Service

GoodUniversity of EssexDOI generationLongstandingOfficial routeLots of guidance

BadGeared to ESRCBit of a free for allDeposit ‘by offer’ onlyGetting data out tricky

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1) Places to put your dataGitHub

GoodURL generationIterating optionVersion controlMassive userbaseMarkdown

BadPrivate companyDeposit hackLimited metadata

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1) Places to put your dataYour Institutional Repository

Speak to your librarian!!

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1) Places to put your dataWikidata

Example: https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42 Info: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction

GoodEmbed data in ecosystemWikipedia backendLinked dataMassive impact

BadNot a deposit venueWho gives you credit?

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2) What to put with your data

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2) What to put with your dataThe core guiding principle is simple: Someone unfamiliar withyour project should be able to look at your computer files andunderstand in detail what you did and why [..] Mostcommonly, however, that “someone” is you. Afew months from now, you may not remember what you wereup to when you created a particular set of files, or you may notremember what conclusions you drew. You will either have tothen spend time reconstructing your previous experiments orlose whatever insights you gained from those experiments.

William Stafford Noble (2009) A Quick Guide to Organizing ComputationalBiology Projects. PLoSComputBiol 5(7): e1000424.doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000424

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2) What to put with your data

EssentialsCapture decisionsCapture contextDescribe the dataDescribe who made the dataChoose a licenceUse a reuseable data format

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3) Examples

Vagrant Lives: 14,789 VagrantsProcessed by Middlesex County, 1777-1786 (version 1.1)https://zenodo.org/record/31026#.V6CzRo78_6g

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3) Examples

A Literary Tour de Force http://robertdarnton.org/literarytour/booksellers

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3) Examples

British Library Printed Musichttp://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/download.html#basicmusic

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4) Group Work

To do Pick a resourcegithub.com/DocumentingHistory/Workshop-Programme

Critique it (15mins)

Prepare to report back (5 mins)

Report back (5 mins each)

Questions to ask- Is it clear what the data is?- Do you think you'd be able toreuse the data easily? (think licence,format, description)

- Is it easy to give the depositorcredit for their work?- What does the deposit do wellin your opinion?- What could be improved?

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5) Individual Work

Sign-up, improve, and/or deposit dataIf you have some data.. add some documentation to it

If you have some data and some documentation.. packageand upload it somewhere

If you have made a data research plan on day one.. workthrough it, map what you need to add into the plan based onthis session

Publication &Dissemination

of DataJames Baker, Lecturer in Digital

History/Archives

@j_w_bakerslideshare.net/drjwbaker

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