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Making Data Count together
We work with researchers, repositories, publishers, institutional representatives, funders, policymakers and infrastructure providers to promote open data metrics and the responsible evaluation of research data usage. Engage with Make Data Count through our ongoing activities:
Uses of the Data Citation Corpus
The Data Citation Corpus provides insights into how data is used in research activities, by providing an open aggregate of links between datasets and articles that made use of the data. During the Make Data Count Summit, we explored the insights that funders and institutions can already gain through the Data Citation Corpus.
FORCE11 Data Usage Typologies Working Group
The FORCE11 Data Usage Typologies Working Group aims to develop a common typology of data uses, along with their description and associated characteristics, so that repositories, publishers, institutions, funders, infrastructure providers and meta-researchers can consistently capture, compare and evaluate context about the ways in which data is used.
Explore the outputs from this Working GroupUpdate to the COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data
Developed in 2018, the COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data provides a framework to standardize the generation and distribution of usage metrics for research data. This enables repositories and platform providers to produce normalized and consistent usage metrics for research data.
Make Data Count and COUNTER are collaborating on an update to the Code of Practice for Research Data, to respond to the developments in research data infrastructure since the initial publication of the code, and to community feedback on aspects of its implementation.
Read proposed update to the Code of Practice