Deck for a session I led at Documenting History, Loughborough University, 5-6 September 2016

1. Publication &
Dissemination
of Data
James Baker, Lecturer in Digital
History/Archives
@j_w_baker
slideshare.net/drjwbaker
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Publication and Dissemination of Data
Session Plan
1) Good places to put your data
2) What to put with your data
3) Examples of best and no-so-best practice
4) Group work: critique
5) Individual work: sign-up, deposit data

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
1) Places to put your data

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
1) Places to put your data
Zenodo
Good
EC, CERN, OpenAIRE
Generates DOIs
ORCID integration
Well supported
GitHub integration
Well used (50k deposits since 2013)
2GB file size
Flexible
Bad
Slightly clunky
2GB can prove small

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
1) Places to put your data
Figshare
Good
Generates DOIs
ORCID integration
Pro look and feel
Very well used (500k deposits since
2013)
5GB file size
Flexible
Bad
Ownership?
Bit of a free for all

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
1) Places to put your data
UK Data Archive/Service
Good
University of Essex
DOI generation
Longstanding
Official route
Lots of guidance
Bad
Geared to ESRC
Bit of a free for all
Deposit ‘by offer’ only
Getting data out tricky

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
1) Places to put your data
GitHub
Good
URL generation
Iterating option
Version control
Massive userbase
Markdown
Bad
Private company
Deposit hack
Limited metadata

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
1) Places to put your data
Your Institutional Repository
Speak to your librarian!!

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
1) Places to put your data
Wikidata
Example: https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42
Info: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction
Good
Embed data in ecosystem
Wikipedia backend
Linked data
Massive impact
Bad
Not a deposit venue
Who gives you credit?

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
2) What to put with your data

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
2) What to put with your data
The core guiding principle is simple: Someone unfamiliar with
your project should be able to look at your computer files and
understand in detail what you did and why [..] Most
commonly, however, that “someone” is you. A
few months from now, you may not remember what you were
up to when you created a particular set of files, or you may not
remember what conclusions you drew. You will either have to
then spend time reconstructing your previous experiments or
lose whatever insights you gained from those experiments.
William Stafford Noble (2009) A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational
Biology Projects. PLoSComputBiol 5(7): e1000424.
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000424

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
2) What to put with your data
Essentials
Capture decisions
Capture context
Describe the data
Describe who made the data
Choose a licence
Use a reuseable data format

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
3) Examples
Vagrant Lives: 14,789 Vagrants
Processed by Middlesex County, 1777-
1786 (version 1.1)
https://zenodo.org/record/31026#.V6CzRo78_6g

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
3) Examples
A Literary Tour de Force
http://robertdarnton.org/literarytour/booksellers

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
3) Examples
British Library Printed Music
http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/download.html#basicmusic

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
4) Group Work
To do
Pick a resource
github.com/DocumentingHistory/Workshop-Programme
Critique it (15mins)
Prepare to report back(5 mins)
Report back (5 mins each)
Questions to ask
- Is it clear what the data is?
- Do you think you'd be able to
reuse the data easily? (think licence,
format, description)
- Is it easy to give the depositor
credit for their work?
- What does the deposit do well
in your opinion?
- What could be improved?

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Publication and Dissemination of Data
5) Individual Work
Sign-up, improve, and/or deposit data
If you have some data.. add some documentation to it
If you have some data and some documentation.. package
and upload it somewhere
If you have made a data research plan on day one.. work
through it, map what you need to add into the plan based on
this session

18. Publication &
Dissemination
of Data
James Baker, Lecturer in Digital
History/Archives
@j_w_baker
slideshare.net/drjwbaker
This work is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License. Exceptions: quotations,
embeds from external sources, logos, and
marked images.