The Make Data Count team has been working on various infrastructure and outreach projects focused on how to measure the reach and impact of research data. While busy driving adoption of these frameworks and services, we have yet to discuss where we’re at in terms of high-level challenges and where we believe we need to go to.
To clarify to the community what our opinions and approaches are in terms of open data metrics, members from the Make Data Count team (Daniella Lowenberg, John Chodacki, Martin Fenner, Matt Jones) sat down and wrote a book that we hope will jump start a community conversation. We would love to hear your feedback and look forward to engaging with you on the topic.
Research data is at the center of science, and to date it has been difficult to understand its impact. To assess the reach of open data, and to advance data-driven discovery, the research and research supporting communities need open, trusted data metrics.
In Open Data Metrics: Lighting the Fire, the authors propose a path forward for the development of data metrics. They acknowledge historic players and milestones in the process and demonstrate the need for standardized, transparent, community-led approaches to establish open data metrics as the new normal.
