Work Session on Statistical Metadata (METIS) Terri Mitton, 10 March 2010 Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables

…to search across millions of articles, books, journals… Researchers use discovery tools

…to scholarly articles and book chapters. Researchers follow links

…for datasets. But the links are broken

Source: OECD Chart from The Economist Here’s Why

Source: Acemoglu et al (2001), based on Curtin, 1989, Philip D. Curtin, Death by migration: Europe’s encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press, New York (1989).Curtin 1989 and other sources. Tertiary school enrollment: School enrollment, tertiary (% of gross). Source: Barro and Lee (2000) and their databases. Taken from an appendix to an article published in Elsevier’s World Development... and again why...

How many are cataloguing datasets?... and Librarians…

Datasets: Scholarly Publishing’s Lost Sheep?

By creating metadata for: Datasets In the same industry standard formats as... Book chapters and Journal articles

Authors will be able to cite... Publishers will be able to link... Discovery systems will be able to find... Librarians will be able to catalogue... Datasets alongside published outputs to the benefit of Everyone

And here's how it can be done

Related Titles Title, ISSN, DOI) Citation tool for datasets

Search across content types Table Chapter Table Working Paper Data

OECD: is working with others on Publishing Standards for Datasets is working with CrossRef on citation standards for dynamic objects Will be pushing metadata for datasets to Scopus, Google Scholar et al You can learn more in this White Paper Green. T, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables

Thank you “The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to FIND it.” Samuel Johnson, British Author Terri Mitton Project Manager, OECD Publishing