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

Publishing
Standards for
Datasets and Data
Tables
Work Session on Statistical
Metadata (METIS)
Terri Mitton, 10 March 2010
Researchers use discovery tools
…to search across millions of
articles, books, journals…
Researchers follow links
…to scholarly
articles
and book
chapters.
But the links are broken
…for datasets.
Here’s Why
Chart from The Economist
Source: OECD
. . . 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)
databases.
and their
. . . and Librarians…
How many are
cataloguing
datasets?
Datasets:
Scholarly Publishing’s Lost Sheep?
By creating metadata for:
Datasets
In the same industry standard
formats as . . .
Book chapters
and
Journal articles
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
And here's how . . .
. . . it can be done
Citation tool for datasets
Title,
ISSN,
DOI)
Related
Titles
Search across content types
Table
Chapter
Table
Working
Paper
Data
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 Paper
Green. T, We Need Publishing
Standards for Datasets and Data Tables
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/787355886123
Thank you
Terri Mitton
Project Manager, OECD Publishing
[email protected]
“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing
where to FIND it.”
Samuel Johnson, British Author