CHORUS Data Journeys

CHORUS Data Journeys

The CHORUS Dashboard provides visualizations and a variety of reports from the Global Research Infrastructure for Federal agencies and other users. The INFORMATE project focuses on three of the CHORUS Reports: All, Author Affiliation and Dataset. The goal of the first phase of the project is to understand the contents of the CHORUS reports and the data collection and processing that bring the data to the reports, i.e. the CHORUS Data Journey.

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INFORMATE: Metadata Game Changers and CHORUS Collaborate to Make the Invisible Visible

INFORMATE: Metadata Game Changers and CHORUS Collaborate to Make the Invisible Visible

How can the global research infrastructure increase understanding of the myriad contributions made to global knowledge by U.S. Federal agencies? How can we use this infrastructure to increase understanding of connections across the U.S. and global research landscape? How can this infrastructure be used to increase completeness, consistency, and connectivity within agency repositories and search tools?

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FAIR Island Experiments with Connecting Project Resources in DataCite

FAIR Island Experiments with Connecting Project Resources in DataCite

The FAIR Island Project has recently been exploring how the global research infrastructure can be used to connect all kinds of research resources related to scientifically significant places back to the place that enabled the work (i.e. the field station). We recently explored connecting data management plans, protocols, and datasets to projects at field stations in French Polynesia.

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Responding to the Nelson Memo: Repository Re-Curation for Open Science

Responding to the Nelson Memo:Repository Re-Curation for Open Science

A recent talk introduces the concept of repository re-curation as a means of improving connectivity with identifiers while complying with the Nelson Memo. Examples from three types of research organizations are described: Dryad, a generalist repository, institutional repositories, and biologic field stations. Slides and a video of the talk are included.

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Journal Connectivity@Dryad: The University of Chicago Press

Journal Connectivity@Dryad: The University of Chicago Press

The Dryad data publishing platform and community have provided secure storage, curation, discovery and access for datasets associated with published scientific papers since 2008 and now holds nearly 50,000 datasets. The platform is supported by an active community of researchers, research organizations, and scientific journals that submit data and support infrastructure development and sustenance. Dryad also has a strong commitment to supporting open, connected science by using identifiers, particularly RORs, throughout the platform. In fact, Dryad has been a leader in adoption of RORs since their initial development.

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Metadata Life Cycle: Mountain or Superhighway?

Metadata Life Cycle: Mountain or Superhighway?

The idea that DataCite exists only to provide DOIs is deeply embedded in repository thought processes and this idea needs to evolve. The research community needs to think about DataCite (and other elements of the global research infrastructure) as powerful resources for describing and connecting the myriad of resources that make up the modern research world. We need to maximize the information that we add into this system to maximize the benefits we can get out of it.

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Funder Metadata: Identifiers and Award Numbers

Funder Metadata: Identifiers and Award Numbers

Improving the completeness and the machine-readability of funder metadata in the global research infrastructure, i.e. DataCite and Crossref, is a critical step along the path of using that infrastructure to identify and characterize research results supported by funders all over the world. A set of 854 funder descriptions from the DRUM repository were processed into 1482 affiliation strings. ROR identifiers were found for 638 of those affiliations and 229 award numbers were extracted.

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The Others

The Others

Identifying diverse contributions made to research objects is the first step in acknowledging those contributions. DataCite includes the contributorType metadata element and a list of twenty types to support this step. A type of Other is included to allow recognition of contributions not included in the list. Understanding how Other is used might help evaluate possible extensions to the contributorType list.

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