1 Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences Stefan Kramer Research Data Librarian at American University Second Workshop on Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets London, Sep. 12, Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

Presentation outline World Bank: linking Open Data to Open Publications ICPSR as a model for linking datasets and publications Linking from publications to data... which is preserved where? The challenge of linking from publications "back" to data The scholarly ecosystem, and the glue for linking researchers, datasets, and publications The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and its work towards linking data and publications  Q & A 2

Jim Gray on eScience “The goal is to have a world in which all of the science literature is online, all of the science data is online, and they interoperate with each other.” 3 Quotation from: Jim Gray on eScience: A Transformed Scientific Method. From a talk given on Jan. 11, Image source: Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

World Bank Open Data – linking to Open Publications 4 Source: Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

Linking datasets and publications … for a half century 5 Source: Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

ICPSR Bibliography: search results presentation 6 Source: Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

ICPSR Bibliography: other publications based on selected study 7 Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

ICPSR Bibliography: record for single publication … and other studies’ data it used Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences 8

ICPSR study/data: found via bibliography Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences 9

ICPSR study/data: found via bibliography Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences 10

Linking from publications to data … where? Won’t the journal publishers that offer or require submission of data with manuscripts take care of research data preservation?!? 11 From a survey of scientific journal publishers, reported in 2011 article Abelard and Héloise: Why Data and Publications Belong Together ( Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

The research data lifecycle … and a challenge for linking to data from publications 12 From poster presentation by W. C. Block, S. Kramer, J. Williams: The Lifecycle of Social Science Research Data: Improved Discovery through better Metadata and Search Tools at the 2011 ASIS&T Research Data Access and Preservation Summit - Source: Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

Example of this “linking from publication to data” issue at American U. Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences 13 Currently at datapilot.american.edu, soon at opendata.american.edu AU Digital Repository:

Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets … and what else in the scholarly ecosystem? 14 Researcher’s publications Researcher’s datasets Research funders Researcher Researcher’s university Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences

Final ODIN project event Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences 15

Developing support for linking data and other entities by the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Alliance Working paper Using RDF to Describe and Link Social Science Data to Related Resources on the Web: Leveraging the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Model published Aug ( – About relating RDF-described datasets to other resources and objects in the Semantic Web: Use Case 1: Linking [data to] related publications Use Case 2: Linking [data to] people and organizations Use Case 3: Linking [data to] geography [areas, not just points] Use Case 4: Linking [data to] related studies [= other datasets] Use Case 5: Linking [data to] to licenses [for data reuse] Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences 16 Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics (

Topics for future consideration identified in that DDI working paper Organizations that are expected to receive the data in the future - the chain of data custody/stewardship Related materials other than research publications: funding for the study that produced data, coverage of the study in news/media External events that may have influenced collected data Outputs from statistical analyses Access control processes/levels employed Certification of repository that (will) house(s) data Information about data quality, and statistical methods used Linking research data and publications: a survey of the landscape in the social sciences 17

18 Thank you for your time & attention! The End Stefan Kramer