1. Publishing datasets: Visualizing and Citing
Toby Green OECD Publishing
ICSTI Winter Workshop Paris, February 8th 2010

2. Guardian investigation reveals scientific concern about missing tree ring data.

3. At least tree ring data has the merit of being fixed and unchanging . . .

4. So, it should be just as easy to:
peer review
publish
cite as a research article

5. It simply needs a variant of the existing citation ‘toolkit’:
metadata
doi identifiers
CrossRef

6. Here’s one OECD prepared earlier . . .
So, whereas for books we have this:
“Serial” level - complete with DOI
Here’s one OECD prepared earlier . . .
“Book or issue” level - complete with DOI
“Chapter or article” level - complete with DOI

7. For datasets we have this:
“Serial” level - complete with DOI
“Book or issue” level - complete with DOI
“Chapter or article” level - complete with DOI

8. More

9. But data is not the same as an article or book chapter, Sub-sets can be published.

10. Sub-sets: each has unique identifier
Data subset series Homepage
DOI: /Series
Subset 1 Homepage
DOI link to: Main dataset
DOI: /Subset#1
Subset 2 Homepage
DOI link to: Main dataset
DOI: /Subset#2
Subset 3 Homepage
DOI link to: Main dataset
DOI: /Subset#3

11. The same data can have a different rendition or graphical interface

12. Datasets with multiple renditions: same identifier
Dataset ‘Homepage’
DOI: /897654
Rendition 1
Rendition 2
Rendition 3

13. Our current solution is to give them the same identifier and
Datasets can grow.
Our current solution is to give them the same identifier and
explain the growth in the
metadata

14. Datasets can change.
Our current solution is to give them a NEW identifier and explain the change in the metadata with a link back to the pre-revision dataset.

15. The details . . .