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Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables

Improve dataset discovery and citation through industry standard metadata creation. Link datasets alongside articles and boost visibility.

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Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables

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  1. Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables Work Session on Statistical Metadata (METIS) Terri Mitton, 10 March 2010

  2. …to search across millions of articles, books, journals… Researchers use discovery tools

  3. Researchers follow links …to scholarly articles and book chapters.

  4. But the links are broken …for datasets.

  5. Here’s Why Chart from The Economist Source: OECD

  6. . . . and again why . . . Taken from an appendix to an article published in Elsevier’s World Development Source: Acemoglu et al (2001), based on Curtin, 1989, Philip D. Curtin, Death by migration: Europe’s encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press, New York (1989).Curtin 1989 and other sources. Tertiary school enrollment: School enrollment, tertiary (% of gross). Source: Barro and Lee (2000) and their databases.

  7. . . . and Librarians… How many are cataloguing datasets?

  8. Datasets:Scholarly Publishing’s Lost Sheep?

  9. By creating metadata for: Datasets In the same industry standard formats as . . .Book chapters and Journal articles

  10. Authors will be able to cite . . . Publishers will be able to link . . . Discovery systems will be able to find . . . Librarians will be able to catalogue . . . Datasets alongside published outputs . . . . . . to the benefit of Everyone

  11. And here's how . . . . . . it can be done

  12. Citation tool for datasets Title, ISSN, DOI) Related Titles

  13. Search across content types Table Chapter Table Working Paper Data

  14. OECD: • is working with others on Publishing Standards for Datasets • is working with CrossRef on citation standards for dynamic objects • Will be pushing metadata for datasets to Scopus, Google Scholar et al • You can learn more in this White PaperGreen. T, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/787355886123

  15. Thank you Terri MittonProject Manager, OECD Publishingterri.mitton@oecd.org “The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to FIND it.” Samuel Johnson, British Author

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