Tag: Community

DOI: 10.60804/CQ98-3H62 By Iratxe Puebla Three years ago, I took on the rewarding challenge of leading Make Data Count‘s work to build the tools, practices, and community needed to drive recognition for data as a primary research output. As I prepare to transition out of the role as Director of...

DOI: 10.60804/2PEK-XM77 By John Chodacki and Kristi Holmes For all the progress around open science, one thing remains stubbornly unresolved: research data is still rarely treated as a first-class scholarly output for tracking and reporting. This limits our ability to reward data contributions in tenure and promotion processes, and it...

DOI: 10.60804/h6aq-cx32 Following our series of interviews with SCOSS-funded open infrastructure organizations, we spoke with leaders of DSpace, asking them about their perspectives on the importance of open infrastructure, and milestones for open data and data recognition. Photos (left to right): Bridget Almas; Holger Lenz; Erik Moore; Kristi Park Please...

DOI 10.54900/37xnm-pg324 This post has been cross-posted on the Upstream blog. Iratxe Puebla, Françoise Genova, Monica Morrison The development of practices and policies in support of data sharing has resulted in a growing number of open outputs being published every year. This has been followed by an increasing interest in...

DOI: 10.60804/MX4V-7K47 Photos of Jen Gibson, Hilary Hanahoe, Lautaro Matas, (left to right). In the first of a series of interviews with leaders from SCOSS-funded open infrastructure organizations, we asked about their perspectives on open infrastructure for open science. In this post, we present perspectives from Dryad, RDA and LA...

DOI: 10.60804/5×77-bq53 Many institutions are looking at their evaluation processes with the goal of making assessment more reflective of the variety of researchers’ contributions and also more aligned to open scholarship. A key area of attention as part of assessment reform relates to the recognition of a diversity of open...

DOI: 10.60804/8v2k-cm37   The Open Science Monitoring Initiative promotes the open science monitoring principles and adoption of practices to understand the progress of open science. Make Data Count is an active participant in OSMI, through its Working Group focused on open science monitoring with scholarly content providers. We had a...

DOI 10.60804/80tg-6d89 With Elisabeth Shook  The Data Citation Corpus aggregates data citations from multiple sources, and one of our areas of interest is to expand its disciplinary coverage. Through a collaboration between Make Data Count and ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), citations for social science datasets...

DOI 10.60804/ZGJX-0K93 Over the last couple of months we have talked with meta-researchers about their work on data, and their perspectives on steps needed to better understand how datasets are used and inform responsible metrics for data. These conversations have highlighted a strong interest in understanding how data practices are...

DOI 10.60804/ZFGH-FP13 Perspectives from Nicolás Robinson-García Nicolás Robinson-García works in bibliometrics and research evaluation. His current research focuses on research contributions and how those are distributed across teams and in different research fields – see this preprint for his latest research on contributions based on the CRediT taxonomy. Nicolás has...