making data sticky
DESCRIPTION
Talk given at GBIF workshop at Kew Gardens 28 May 2012TRANSCRIPT
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Making data sticky
Data
More data is good…
…but this data is not sticky
Location
namename
namename
Tags
NamenNamennamename
Identifiers
Shared identifiers are sticky
Identifiers
• Globally unique
• Resolvable (human and machine)
• Used
Identifiers
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-187Extracting scientific articles from a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library
• http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3pc64Nexus file with the characters-taxa matrix used for the phylogenetic analysis
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1601/nm.5037Halobacillus
Links
PMID:948206
http://biostor.org/reference/102054
http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/215921922/
BHL and GBIF as biomedical databases
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/bhl-and-gbif-as-biomedical-databases.html
Metrics
In an attempt to live up to that increasing demand for documentation, the leadership of the Natural History Museum of Denmark has issued an order to its curatorial staff - The staff members are requested to document which publications from 2011, written entirely by external scientists, that in one way or another are based on material in the collections of the Museum.
http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen@TAXACOM
https://twitter.com/#!/search/10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0036881
https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176
https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176
http://www.museum-analytics.org/
Cited, linkable specimens
NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Herpetology Collections 11194
CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
MCZ Herpetology Collection
Herpetology Collection (University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center)
9619
6720
5818
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html
The value is in the links, not the nodes
Summary• Make your data sticky…
• …by using other people’s identifiers
• Shared identifiers create links…
• …which enable discovery (and metrics)
• Value is in the links (think Google, Facebook)