Connecting Scientific Articles with Research Data: New Directions in Online Scholarly Publishing

Aalbersberg, IJsbrand Jan; Dunham, Judson; Koers, Hylke

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“…Many parties, in fact, are taking efforts to link up articles and data in a robust and future-proof way: a number of data repositories keep track of articles that cite, or refer to, their data; several publishers have some form of data-linking program to connect the articles they publish with relevant data hosted externally (see e.g. Aalbersberg et al , 2011); providers of bibliographic information are increasingly looking at data alongside the traditional article output; and organizations such as CrossRef, DataCite, and OpenAIRE are developing systems to track or infer relationships between data and the literature (see also Callaghan et al , 2014 for some examples of how data and literature publications are currently interlinked).…”

Section: The Need For Sharing Data-literature Linksmentioning

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The data-literature interlinking service

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Purpose-Research data publishing is today widely regarded as crucial for reproducibility, proper assessment of scientific results, and as a way for researchers to get proper credit for sharing their data. However, several challenges need to be solved to fully realize its potential, one of them being the development of a global standard for links between research data and literature. Current linking solutions are mostly based on bilateral, ad hoc agreements between publishers and data centers. These operate in silos so that content cannot be readily combined to deliver a network graph connecting research data and literature in a comprehensive and reliable way. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Publishing Data Services Working Group (PDS-WG) aims to address this issue of fragmentation by bringing together different stakeholders to agree on a common infrastructure for sharing links between data sets and literature. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach-This paper presents the synergic effort of the RDA PDS-WG and the OpenAIRE infrastructure toward enabling a common infrastructure for exchanging data-literature links by realizing and operating the Data-Literature Interlinking (DLI) Service. The DLI Service populates and provides access to a graph of data set-literature links (at the time of writing close to five millions, and growing) collected from a variety of major data centers, publishers, and research organizations. Findings-To achieve its objectives the Service proposes an interoperable exchange data model and format, based on which it collects and publishes links, thereby offering the opportunity to validate such common approach on real-case scenarios, with real providers and consumers. Feedback of these actors will drive continuous refinement of the both data model and exchange format, supporting the further development of the Service to become an essential part of a universal, open, cross-platform, cross-discipline solution for collecting, and sharing data set-literature links. Originality/value-This realization of the DLI Service is the first technical, cross-community, and collaborative effort in the direction of establishing a common infrastructure for facilitating the exchange of data set-literature links. As a result of its operation and underlying community effort, a new activity, name Scholix, has been initiated involving at the technological level stakeholders such as DataCite and CrossRef.

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Section: The Need For Sharing Data-literature Linksmentioning

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The data-literature interlinking service

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“…Elsevier: Elsevier makes available different versions of a scientific publication: PDF, HTML, MOBI, and EPUB2. In addition, authors are able to deposit their datasets, making it possible for readers to access and download these datasets [1]. Moreover, the EPUB2 version of a publication is enriched with direct links to the PDF version of cited publications, thus not embedding these PDF versions into the EPUB2 file.…”

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L'assignaci� de metadades a llibres digitals en el format EPUB3. Primera part. Les metadades en les

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Scientific publications point to many associated resources, including videos, prototypes, slides, and datasets. However, discovering and accessing these resources is not always straightforward: links could be broken, readers may be offline, or the number of associated resources might make it difficult to keep track of the viewing order. In this paper, we explore potential integration of such resources into the digital version of a scientific publication. Specifically, we evaluate the most common scientific publication formats in terms of their capability to implement the desirable attributes of an enhanced publication and to meet the functional goals of an enhanced publication information system: PDF, HTML, EPUB2, and EPUB3. In addition, we present an EPUB3 version of an exemplary publication in the field of computer science, integrating and interlinking an explanatory video and an interactive prototype. Finally, we introduce a demonstrator that is capable of outputting customized scientific publications in EPUB3. By making use of EPUB3 to create an integrated and customizable representation of a scientific publication and its associated resources, we believe that we are able to augment the reading experience of scholarly publications, and thus the effectiveness of scientific communication.

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“…There are a number of ways in which Elsevier is interlinking data and articles on ScienceDirect, which can be categorized into three classes (Aalbersberg, Dunham, & Koers, 2011): linking through in-text data set identifiers or accession numbers, linking through data repository banners next to the article, and linking to repository-specific applications that are integrated into the article view.…”

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Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: the Elsevier Article of the Future Project

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Koers

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The ICT revolution of the last decades impacted scientific communication as it has impacted many other forms of communications, changing the way in IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg et al. Liber Quarterly Volume 23 Issue 4 2014275 which articles are delivered and how they can be discovered. However, the impact of ICT on the research itself has been much more profound, introducing digital tools to the way in which researchers gather data, perform analyses, and exchange results. This brought new, digital forms of research output, and disseminating those calls for changes deeply impact the core format of the scientific article.In 2009, Elsevier introduced the "Article of the Future" project to define an optimal way for the dissemination of science in the digital age, and in this paper we discuss three of its key dimensions. First we discuss interlinking scientific articles and research data stored with domain-specific data repositories -such interlinking is essential to interpret both article and data efficiently and correctly. We then present easy-to-use 3D visualization tools embedded in online articles: a key example of how the digital article format adds value to scientific communication and helps readers to better understand research results. The last topic covered in this paper is automatic enrichment of journal articles through text-mining or other methods. Here we share insights from a recent survey on the question: how can we find a balance between creating valuable contextual links, without sacrificing the high-quality, peer-reviewed status of published articles?

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Connecting Scientific Articles with Research Data: New Directions in Online Scholarly Publishing

Cited by 10 publications

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The data-literature interlinking service

The data-literature interlinking service

L'assignaci� de metadades a llibres digitals en el format EPUB3. Primera part. Les metadades en les

Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: the Elsevier Article of the Future Project

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