Putting data at the heart of the Open Web Platform

Academic Publishing in Europe 2015
Berlin, 20 January

Why Am I Here?

Some People You May Not Know

Some People You May Not Know

Some People You May Not Know

Some People You May Not Know

Some People You May Not Know

March 1989

A Few Simple Things We Need to Agree …

• Explicit semantics, especially of identifiers.
• Core concepts like Dataset & Distribution.
• What any data publisher MUST do, what they SHOULD do etc.

A Word on Identifiers

Ivan Herman, a.k.a. 0000-0003-0782-2704 or http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704/

According to orcid.org, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704/ identifies:

• a profile document
• an online account
• was made by itself
• is the primary topic of itself
• a person
• a list of publications

A Few Simple Things We Need to Agree …

• Explicit semantics, especially of identifiers.
• Core concepts like Dataset & Distribution (DCAT!). Compare metadata available from
  • OpenAIRE
  • (GIGA)ⁿ DB
  • publicdata.eu
  • Dryad 1, Dryad 2
  • CIARD RING
• What any data publisher MUST do, what they SHOULD do etc.

DCAT in the wild

• DCAT: The Data Catalog Vocabulary
• schema.org Dataset
• Included in CERIF mappings etc.
• CKAN-Next
• Used in EC Data Portals

A Few Simple Things We Need to Agree …

• Explicit semantics, especially of identifiers.
• Core concepts like Dataset & Distribution
• What any data publisher MUST do, what they SHOULD do etc.
  • RECODE Policy recommendations (PDF)
  • W3C Data on the Web Best Practices (Editor's Draft, expect FPWD 27 Jan)
  • Share-PSI Best Practices (under development, join us in Timişoara!)

What We're Doing

• The Share-PSI 2.0 Thematic Network, focused on PSI Directive but still relevant. Policy-centric best practices are evolving through collaboration of 40+ partners.
• The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group (Editor's Draft will be formally published by end of January).
• CSV on the Web and Data Shapes WGs; HCLS IG
• Close collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium in the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group.
• Digital Publishing Activity
• BigDataEurope project begins February 2015: providing infrastructure for data-centric projects.
• Text Analysis vocabulary exists - could be expanded upon as part of discovery metadata to include relationships described in papers/data etc.

Relationships cf. Keywords

An investigation into the effect of X in relation to disease y

Keywords: X, disease Y, Z

Relationships cf. Keywords

An investigation into the effect of X in relation to disease y

Key finding: exposure to environmental pollutant X upscales production of hormone Z which is associated with an increase in prevalence of disease Y.

Keywords: X, disease Y, Z

A Few Simple Things We Need to Agree …

• Explicit semantics, especially of identifiers.
• Core concepts like Dataset & Distribution.
• What any data publisher MUST do, what they SHOULD do etc.

A Few Simple Things We Need to Agree …

• Explicit semantics, especially of identifiers.
• Core concepts like Dataset & Distribution.
• What any data publisher MUST do, what they SHOULD do etc.