Make Data Count

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 their perspectives on why understanding the use and reach of open data is important, and on their interest in Make Data Count.

Community perspectives on data metrics and data evaluation

The Make Data Count Summit 2024 took place in London earlier this month. Over two days, we explored what areas of research infrastructure, practices, evidence and evaluation we need to focus on to advance data metrics and our understanding of the reach and impact of open data.

Evaluation, context and getting practical on data metrics: the Make Data Count Summit 2024

DOI 10.60804/6a1z-rr79   At the recent Make Data Count Summit 2024, we had the opportunity to explore the insights that the Data Citation Corpus provides for institutions and funders. A large-scale open aggregate of data citations, the Data Citation Corpus currently stores 5 million citations collected via persistent identifier metadata and text mining of article content to identify mentions to datasets.

The Data Citation Corpus in practice: Perspectives from a funder and an institution

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 Data Citation Corpus.

‘I would like to better identify citations for data’: Community feedback and use cases for the first release of the Data Citation Corpus

First-of-its-kind aggregation brings together millions of data citations to advance understanding of data usage


 https://doi.org/10.60804/r14z-mw10

DataCite, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), is delighted to announce the first release of the Data Citation Corpus.

DataCite launches first release of the Data Citation Corpus

This post has been cross-posted on the DataCite blog. A critical piece of open data infrastructure that has received insufficient attention is the evaluation of data usage. We still lack a clear understanding and a body of evidence on how data are being accessed, utilized, and incorporated into research activities….

A critical piece of open data infrastructure that has received insufficient attention is the evaluation of data usage. We still lack a clear understanding and a body of evidence on how data are being accessed, utilized, and incorporated into research activities.

Make Data Count Summit: The Time Is Now to Advance Data Metrics

Make Data Count Team

Make Data Count (MDC) is convening a two-day summit dedicated to the evaluation of open data usage, reach, and impact.

Announcing the Inaugural MDC Summit

Daniella Lowenberg

Join us for a 3-part series on key issues and opportunities for the community to prioritize on our journey to open data metrics.   Watch the recordings of FORAGE, EXPLORE, and BEGIN!

MDC Virtual Events: Spring, 2022

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Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles

antonninkov/ISSI2021: Datasets on DataCite - an Initial Bibliometric Investigation

Datasets on DataCite - an Initial Bibliometric Investigation

By Kathleen Gregory and Anton Ninkov

 Data citations hold great promise for a variety of stakeholders. Unfortunately, due in part to a lack of metadata, i.e. about disciplinary domains, many of those promises remain out of reach. Metadata providers – repositories, publishers and researchers – play a key role in improving the current situation.

The potentials of data citations are many.

Data citations in context: We need disciplinary metadata to move forward

Daniella Lowenberg, Rachael Lammey, Matthew B. Jones, John Chodacki, Martin Fenner

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4701079

Data Citation: Let’s Choose Adoption Over Perfection

By: John Chodacki, Martin Fenner, Daniella Lowenberg 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 including citation data &amp;

Open Metrics Require Open Infrastructure

Since 2014, the Make Data Count (MDC) initiative has focused on building the social and technical infrastructure for the development of research data metrics.

Igniting Change: Our Next Steps Towards Open Data Metrics

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.

Open Data Metrics: Lighting the Fire

Following advice from our workshop attendees at RDA13, we invite you to join us for our spring webinar. Join us on

 May 8th at 8am PST/3pm GMT

as we demo our new aggregation services at DataCite and DataONE. This webinar is intended to spotlight the features and services we can build off of our central infrastructure such as aggregated usage and citations. This webinar will be recorded and posted on our website.

Save The Date: MDC Spring Webinar

Join us on

 March 26th at 8:00am PST/4:00pm GMT

for a webinar on repository implementation of our COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data and Make Data Count recommendations. This webinar will feature a panel of developers from repositories that have implemented or about to release standardized data metrics: Dataverse, Dryad, and Zenodo. We will interview each repository on their implementation process.

Repository Implementation Webinar: March 26, 2019

When: April 1st, 10:00am-12:00pm Where: Loews Hotel, Philadelphia.

When:

April 1st, 10:00am-12:00pm

 Where:

Loews Hotel, Philadelphia.

Save the Date: Make Data Count Pre-RDA13 Workshop

Crossposted from DataONE blog: https://www.dataone.org/news/new-usage-metrics

Publications have long maintained a citation standard for research papers, ensuring credit for cited work and ideas. Tracking use of data collections, however, has remained a challenge. DataONE is pleased to share our latest effort in overcoming this barrier and in demonstrating data reuse with new data usage and citation metrics.

DataONE Implements New Usage and Citation Metrics to Make Your Data Count

With Make Data Count now in its second year, the focus is shifting from building infrastructure to driving adoption of our open data-level metrics infrastructure.

Make Data Count &amp; Scholix Join FORCE(2018)s

Crossposted from COUNTER on September 13, 2018

There is a need for the consistent and credible reporting of research data usage. Such usage metrics are required as an important component in understanding how publicly available research data are being reused.

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics Release 1

It’s been two exciting months since we released the first iteration of our data-level-metrics infrastructure.  We are energized by the interest garnered and questions we’ve received and we wanted to share a couple of highlights!

 July Webinar

Soon after launch we hosted a webinar on “How-To” make your data count. Thank you to the 100 attendees that joined us for asking such thoughtful questions.

Make Data Count Summer 2018 Update

One year into our Sloan funded Make Data Count project, we are proud to release Version 1 of standardized data usage and citation metrics! As a community that values research data it is important for us to have a standard and fair way to compare metrics for data sharing. We know of and are involved in a variety of initiatives around data citation infrastructure and best practices; including Scholix, Crossref and DataCite Event Data.

It&#8217;s Time to Make Your Data Count!

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.

Publishers: Make Your Data Citations Count!

The Make Data Count team is rapidly approaching the first release of standardized and comparable data level metrics (DLMs) on California Digital Library’s Dash and DataONE repositories. Resources on this release will be available shortly, but in the meantime the team would like to share updates on work completed in winter and our spring roadmap.

Make Data Count Update: Spring, 2018

Kicking off Love Data Week 2018, the Make Data Count (MDC) team is pleased to announce that the first iteration of our Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics Release 1 has now been posted as a preprint. Beginning in June, members from the MDC team and COUNTER began conversations around what a standard for data usage metrics may look like. By September we were able to release an initial draft outline for community feedback.

Code of practice for research data usage metrics release 1

For the past few months, we have worked to garner interest and facilitate discussion about data usage metrics within the community. Internally, we are working to drive development toward comparable, standardized data usage metrics and data citations on repository interfaces. We are excited to share our progress and we want to thank those who have given us feedback or have gotten involved along the way!

Make Data Count Winter 2018 Update

The Make Data Count (MDC) project is moving ahead with full force and the team wanted to take a moment to update the research stakeholder community on our project resources and roadmap. In September, the MDC team sat down and mapped out the project plan for our two-year grant.

Make Data Count Update: November, 2017

Following our draft update and executive summary, Make Data Count and COUNTER are proud to release our first draft of a

 Code of Practice for Research Data

. This first iteration is meant to be a draft, and our goal is to receive input and feedback from the community. We ask that you please comment on and mark up the document with questions, suggestions, and/or overall feedback.

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Draft 1

As a research and scholarly communications community, we value methods to gauge the impact of research outputs, and we do this in the forms of citations and downloads. But, until now this has been limited to traditional journal publications, and scholarly research is much more than an article. Foremost, data play a major role in the research process and deserve to be valued as a first-class scholarly output.

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data Draft Update

COUNTER is a non-profit organization supported by a global community of library, publisher and vendor members, who contribute to the development of the Code of Practice through working groups and outreach. COUNTER and MDC  are collaborating to develop and publish a Code of Practice for Research Data. This set of recommendations will focus on how data usage should be measured and reported.

COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work, this award will result in the launch of a new service that will collate and expose data level metrics.

Make Data Count:  Building a System to Support Recognition of Data as a First Class Research Output

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 contact and start collaborating with us, please: Join our mailing list Follow us on Twitter Contact us directly!

How to engage with MDC?

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 a way to identify relationships and better understand relative impact.

Understanding the problem

Blog post by Iratxe Puebla and Maria Alejandra Tejada Gómez.

DOI: 10.60804/zb5q-qy55 The Make Data Count Summit last September brought together researchers, infrastructure providers and representatives across institutions, funding and policy areas to discuss data metrics and the responsible evaluation of data usage.

‘Policies that make data count’: data evaluation in funder and policy-making processes

The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) has as one of its objectives the implementation of open metrics. A consistent approach to data citations is an important step to drive meaningful metrics that provide visibility on data usage, signal the added value of data repositories and enable reporting on the reach...

Why data citations?

Data citations are a useful measure to gain understanding on the use of research data. Data citations recognize the individual(s) or organization(s) that collected and shared the data, and researcher surveys regularly show that researchers value receiving citations to their dataset (see for example The State of Open Data report, or research by Kathleen Gregory and colleagues).

GREI recommendations to support consistent practices to collect, expose and aggregate citations to open data

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.

https://doi.org/10.60804/8hvp-e561


 This blog post is cross-posted on the COUNTER site.

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.

Bringing the COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data and COUNTER Release 5.1 together to enhance normalization

DOI:10.60804/AGQD-PF50  We are thrilled to share that Make Data Count has been selected by SCOSS as essential open infrastructure for participation in its next funding cycle.

SCOSS selects Make Data Count as infrastructure essential to open science

Redivis

DOI 10.60804/1516-e177

 Blog post by Ian Mathews, CEO at Redivis, Zach Chandler, Director of Open Scholarship Strategy at Stanford University, Erin DeLaney, Head of Design at Redivis


 
 Analyze data citations for any repository by forking
 
 
 this analytical workflow
 
 
 on Redivis!
 

At Redivis, we believe that data-driven research should be accessible, reproducible, and as open as

Analyzing the Data Citation Corpus on Redivis

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 aggregate of data citations.

Community perspectives on the Data Citation Corpus

This week we are thrilled to welcome Clare Dean as Communications Consultant for Make Data Count. In this role, Clare will be supporting Make Data Count’s outreach and community engagement activities. Clare brings a wealth of experience working with organizations in scholarly communications and open science initiatives, but best to let her tell you about it. Here’s a brief introduction to Clare, in her own words. Welcome Clare!

Clare Dean

https://doi.org/10.60804/9aqp-4273

This week we are thrilled to welcome Clare Dean as Communications Consultant for Make Data Count. In this role, Clare will be supporting Make Data Count’s outreach and community engagement activities.

Welcoming Clare Dean as Communications Consultant for Make Data Count

Make Data Count is pleased to announce the Make Data Count Summit 2024, a two-day meeting dedicated to responsible data metrics and the evaluation of open data usage and impact.

https://doi.org/10.60804/zhtp-vs98

Make Data Count is pleased to announce the Make Data Count Summit 2024, a two-day meeting dedicated to responsible data metrics and the evaluation of open data usage and impact. The Make Data Count Summit 2024 will be held in London, UK on September 5-6 and will provide a forum for discussions about evidence-based data metrics and responsible assessment of open data.

Join us for the Make Data Count Summit 2024

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This week we are thrilled to welcome Clare Dean as Communications
Consultant for Make Data Count. In this role, Clare will be supporting
Make Data Count's outreach and community engagement activities. Clare
brings a wealth of experience working with organizations in scholarly
communications and open science initiatives, but best to let her tell
you about it. Here's a brief introduction to Clare, in her own words.
Welcome Clare!

**Can you tell us a bit about yourself, and your journey working in the
scholarly communications and infrastructure space?**

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Originally British, I've lived in the US for 18 years, and currently
live in Vermont with my family where I balance family life with
consulting, writing, art, and entrepreneurship, most of which I do from
my barn studio!

Professionally, I'm a marketing strategy consultant primarily working in
the scholarly communications space. I've worked in and around publishing
for 20 years, my most recent full-time position held was as the
Marketing Director at PLOS where I was for nearly 4 years. As a
consultant, I've worked for a number of organizations and initiatives in
this space, including Metadata2020, Crossref, Coko Foundation, and ROR.

**What drew you to this role with Make Data Count?**

Having worked in open science for many years, initiatives like Make Data
Count that lead such crucial community projects within the open science
ecosystem are hugely appealing for me to work with. I'm always looking
for opportunities to apply my marketing and communications skills where
they can be of the most value, and Make Data Count is a terrific
initiative making huge strides to drive greater recognition of open
data. 

I've also had very positive experiences working with Iratxe at PLOS, and
many of the Advisory Group members on other projects, so I am confident
I'm working with an exceptional team of good people.

**How would you describe your approach to outreach and community
engagement? From your previous experience, what would you highlight as
key elements for successfully engaging with the community?**

Like many with my profession, I'm data-driven, always looking deeply
towards what combinations of data could be telling us and how to apply
those learnings to communications in concert with product development. I
marry analysis and reporting with creative and experimental approaches
to marketing and communications strategy. I'm not a 'plug and play' kind
of marketer, but get inspiration from approaches in other industries, to
innovate, and find creative ways to engage and scale for maximal
effectiveness where relevant.

With my highly driven team at PLOS, in addition to delivering inclusive
outreach approaches, we developed more nuanced ways of connecting with
different communities about the things that mattered to them most,
finding innovative methods of increasing engagement through
participatory approaches. Similarly at Make Data Count, I'm looking to
ensure that we respond to the interests of different groups, and to find
new ways to encourage community engagement that help drive the various
Make Data Count activities, while being useful to participating
individuals. 

I believe in listening to the people you're looking to connect with, and
that communication isn't just about pushing messages out, but about
responding to what you're hearing from the community. With that, I
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data-id="info@makedatacount.org"} with thoughts, feedback, and
questions. I'm looking forward to working more closely with the
community.

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