Category: Community
MATILDA: building an open bibliographic database and the role of data in enriching articles for discovery
Date: October 1, 2025
DOI: 10.60804/9qxx-bh58 Didier Torny is a Senior Researcher at CNRS, and the project lead for Matilda, a bibliographic platform built specifically for open science. We spoke with Didier about the project, and their plans to incorporate links to datasets for the articles they index in Matilda. The motivation for Matilda...
Announcing Make Data Count and HELIOS Open Collaboration: ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group
Date: January 6, 2025
DOI: 10.60804/0sak-7g76 We are pleased to announce the launch of the ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group, a partnership between Make Data Count and HELIOS Open. John Chodacki (Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3); University of California Office of the President) and Kristi Holmes (Associate Dean for Knowledge...
Community perspectives on the Data Citation Corpus
Date: November 26, 2024
https://doi.org/10.60804/fkfy-1162 Make Data Count is a community hub for the development of metrics that can help us understand how data is used in research and policy activities. Several Make Data Count community members have given us their insights on the Data Citation Corpus, our project to build a central open...
Community perspectives on data metrics and data evaluation
Date: October 30, 2024
https://doi.org/10.60804/DBT4-CZ71 Make Data Count is a community hub for the development of metrics that can help us understand how data is used in research and policy activities. We reached out to Make Data Count community members for their views on data metrics and data evaluation. In this post, we share...
Bringing the COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data and COUNTER Release 5.1 together to enhance normalization
Date: May 9, 2024
The COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data provided a key milestone in data evaluation practices by making it possible to report comparable usage counts across platforms. Over the last months, Make Data Count and COUNTER have collaborated to explore what a suitable direction would be for an update to the Code of Practice for Research Data, and we are now sharing our proposal to merge the Code of Practice for Research Data with COUNTER R5.1 for public consultation.
‘I would like to better identify citations for data’: Community feedback and use cases for the first release of the Data Citation Corpus
Date: March 8, 2024
DOI: 10.60804/QNXH-9H83 Kicking off the year, we had the pleasure of announcing the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. In response to the multiple expressions of interest in learning more about the project and in using the data file for the corpus, we held a webinar dedicated to the...
Open Metrics Require Open Infrastructure
Date: July 10, 2020
By: John Chodacki, Martin Fenner, Daniella Lowenberg https://doi.org/10.60804/NQ0Y-8T21 Today, Zenodo announced their intentions to remove the altmetrics.com badges from their landing pages–and we couldn’t be more energized by their commitment to open infrastructure, supporting their mission to make scientific information open and free. “We strongly believe that metadata about records...
Publishers: Make Your Data Citations Count!
Date: May 29, 2018
https://doi.org/10.60804/FH8J-T722 Many publishers have implemented open data policies and have publicly declared their support of data as a valuable component of the research process. But to give credit to researchers and incentivize behavior for data publishing, the community needs to promote proper citation of data. Many publishers have also endorsed...
Understanding the problem
Date: May 15, 2017
https://doi.org/10.60804/DSVA-TK18 Journal articles are the currency of scholarly research. As a result, we as a community, use sophisticated methods to gauge the impact of research and measure the attention it receives by analyzing article citations, article page views and downloads, and social media metrics. While imprecise, these metrics offer us...
How to engage with MDC?
Date: May 15, 2017
Making Data Count (MDC) team members are at the center of many initiatives that focus on aspects of metrics, including DLM. We leverage existing channels to build a new data usage standard and to promote integration and adoption amongst data centers and data consumers. If you want to get in...