Category Archives: Data publication

Mapping DataCite 3.1: updated ontology and mapping document

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Silvio Peroni

It is not the first time we introduce our work on mapping DataCite to RDF – as already discussed in a previous post on this blog. Some news on this front: recently, David Shotton, Jan Ashton, Amy Barton, Egbert Gramsbergen, … Continue reading →

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Ten next steps for semantic authors and publishers

Posted on February 26, 2013 by David Shotton

Note added 30 May 2013 Additional information concerning the use of OAI-ORE to specify aggregations of research outputs into data packages and research objects has been added at the end of this blog post. – – – Journal publishing has … Continue reading →

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An entry form for DataCite metadata

Posted on December 4, 2012 by David Shotton

DataCite is an international organization responsible for the DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) issued for research datasets.  For each DOI issued, DataCite requires the data publisher to create and submit to DataCite descriptive metadata that can aid resource discovery.  These metadata … Continue reading →

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Revising the DataCite2RDF mapping document

Posted on December 4, 2012 by David Shotton

The purpose of mapping DataCite metadata elements to ontology terms is to enable DataCite metadata to be published in RDF as Open Linked Data, enabling these metadata to be understood programmatically and integrated automatically with similar data from elsewhere. In … Continue reading →

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Revising the DataCite Ontology

Posted on November 8, 2012 by David Shotton

In a previous blog post, I described the work that Silvio Peroni and I undertook in May 2011 to map the main terms from the DataCite Metadata Kernel v2.0 to RDF. To enable that, we created a ‘proto-ontology’, the DataCite … Continue reading →

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Comments on IS DATA PUBLICATION THE RIGHT METAPHOR?

Posted on January 3, 2012 by David Shotton

Is Data Publication the Right Metaphor? is an essay by Mark Parsons and Peter Fox to be published in the Data Science Journal, for which a preprint has been provided for open pre-publication community peer review at http://mp-datamatters.blogspot.com/2011/12/seeking-open-review-of-provocative-data.html. To supplement … Continue reading →

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The plate tectonics of research data publication

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

In biology, the fields of macromolecular structural biology and sequence bioinformatics have, since the 1970s, had established international databases for the deposition of data, and journal policies mandating such deposition prior to acceptance for publication of manuscripts describing the data.  … Continue reading →

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IBRG projects to facilitate data publication and data citation

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

In the previous post, I outlined reasons why researchers don’t publish data, presented as evidence to the Royal Society’s Policy Study “Science as a Public Enterprise” Call for Evidence.  Here, I summarize activities by members of my Image Bioinformatics Research … Continue reading →

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Why researchers don’t publish data

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

Evidence submitted by David Shotton in response to the Royal Society’s Policy Study “Science as a Public Enterprise” Call for Evidence, addressing the following two topics raised by that call: Getting Researcher buy-in. How do we get researchers to be … Continue reading →

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Current Projects at the Image Bioinformatics Research Group in Oxford

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

Alistair Miles, of SKOS fame, who formerly worked in our research group, spent yesterday afternoon catching up with us, and has written a nice blog post on the MalariaGEN Informatics Blog describing our current activities, including our work on the … Continue reading →

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