FORCE2023: Presentations 5
This session was part of FORCE2023. Learn more: https://force11.org/fsci/2023/
Moderator: Simon Wakeling, Charles Sturt University
Looking Ahead: A Global Corpus for All Data Citations
Matthew Buys, DataCite
For data citation to become a priority across the research landscape, there needs to be a shift in research culture and we need to align with institutional and research priorities through our messaging and infrastructure, extending our sole focus beyond publishers. For data citation and data metrics to be of interest and a part of institutional mandates, institutions would want to know: data citation increases coverage of research and external funding opportunities, and data citation helps to evaluate researchers. To get to this point, we need an understanding of data reuse and for funders to use data to monitor impact, inform future funding, and improve the dissemination of research. First, however, we must have a trusted central aggregate of all references to research data across articles, preprints, government documents, and other outputs. New methods for web scraping all text mentions (traditional and non-traditional) of data have proven that it is possible to excavate data citations without relying only on publishers and repositories through manual processes, demonstrating the need for a central open corpus for these citations to be exposed and reused.
Increase Reliability of Science with Open, Dynamic, and Live Methods in Scholarly Communication
Annalisa Gastaldello, European Commission
Clear reporting of scientific methods and protocols in scholarly papers is the basis for reproducible, reliable, and progressive science. Open data has recently received a great deal of attention, but in reality, the usability of data is only ensured when the methods for generating it are clearly described. Making progress towards open, detailed and dynamic protocols in peer reviewed publications requires huge investment from all of the different agents in the publication system, from researchers to publishers, the institutions in which they work and the funders that support them. A concerted community effort by all of these different agents is needed in order to create a culture that embraces, supports and rewards good method reporting. With prior experience in the acceptance of methods and data for regulatory purposes, the European Commission Joint Research Centre convened a group of scientists and publishers to undertake the translation of discussion about making methods more clearly reported in life science publications into clear action points. In this presentation, I will talk about the main actions to be undertaken by the key actors in research institutions, funding bodies, and publishers that can trigger and support the needed culture change. The work will soon be open for consultation. With this work, we expect to support more transparent, reliable and robust science, of a higher quality and more impact.