Processes and Procedures for Data Publication: A Case Study in the Geosciences

The Peer REview for Publication and Accreditation of Research Data in the Earth sciences (PREPARDE) project is a JISC and NERC funded project which aims to investigate the policies and procedures required for the formal publication of research data, ranging from ingestion into a data repository, through to formal publication in a data journal. It also addresses key issues arising in the data publication paradigm, including, but not limited to, issues related to how one peer reviews a dataset, what criteria are needed for a repository to be considered objectively trustworthy, and how datasets and journal publications can be effectively cross-linked for the benefit of the wider research community. PREPARDE brings together a wide range of experts in the research, academic publishing and data management fields both within the Earth Sciences and in the broader life sciences with the aim of producing general guidelines applicable to a wide range of scientific disciplines and data publication types. This paper provides details of the work done in the first half of the project; the project itself will be completed in June 2013.

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Connecting Data Publication to the Research Workflow: A Preliminary Analysis

International Journal of Digital Curation ◽

10.2218/ijdc.v12i1.533 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 88-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen ◽

Varsha Khodiyar ◽

Fiona Murphy ◽

Amy Nurnberger ◽

Lisa Raymond ◽

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Keyword(s):

Working Group ◽

Research Data ◽

Data Publishing ◽

Data Repository ◽

Research Activity ◽

Data Repositories ◽

Data Publication ◽

Loosely Coupled ◽

Definition Of ◽

Data Documentation

The data curation community has long encouraged researchers to document collected research data during active stages of the research workflow, to provide robust metadata earlier, and support research data publication and preservation. Data documentation with robust metadata is one of a number of steps in effective data publication. Data publication is the process of making digital research objects ‘FAIR’, i.e. findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable; attributes increasingly expected by research communities, funders and society. Research data publishing workflows are the means to that end. Currently, however, much published research data remains inconsistently and inadequately documented by researchers. Documentation of data closer in time to data collection would help mitigate the high cost that repositories associate with the ingest process. More effective data publication and sharing should in principle result from early interactions between researchers and their selected data repository. This paper describes a short study undertaken by members of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and World Data System (WDS) working group on Publishing Data Workflows. We present a collection of recent examples of data publication workflows that connect data repositories and publishing platforms with research activity ‘upstream’ of the ingest process. We re-articulate previous recommendations of the working group, to account for the varied upstream service components and platforms that support the flow of contextual and provenance information downstream. These workflows should be open and loosely coupled to support interoperability, including with preservation and publication environments. Our recommendations aim to stimulate further work on researchers’ views of data publishing and the extent to which available services and infrastructure facilitate the publication of FAIR data. We also aim to stimulate further dialogue about, and definition of, the roles and responsibilities of research data services and platform providers for the ‘FAIRness’ of research data publication workflows themselves.

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FRACTAL SURFACES: MEASUREMENT AND APPLICATIONS IN THE EARTH SCIENCES

Fractals ◽

10.1142/s0218348x93000125 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 01 (01) ◽

pp. 87-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 111

Author(s):

B. LEA COX ◽

J. S. Y. WANG

Keyword(s):

Earth Sciences ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Measurement Techniques ◽

Heterogeneous Systems ◽

Fractal Dimensions ◽

Fractal Surfaces ◽

The Earth ◽

Power Spectral ◽

Wide Range ◽

Map Data

Earth scientists have measured fractal dimensions of surfaces by different techniques, including the divider, box, triangle, slit-island, power spectral, variogram and distribution methods. We review these seven measurement techniques, finding that fractal dimensions may vary systematically with measurement method. We discuss possible reasons for these differences, and point to common problems shared by all of the methods, including the remainder problem, curve-fitting, orientation of the measurement plane, size and direction of the sample. Fractal measurements have been applied to many problems in the earth sciences, at a wide range of spatial scales. These include map data of topography; fault traces and fracture networks; fracture surfaces of natural rocks, both in the field and at laboratory scales; metal surfaces; porous aggregate geometry; flow and transport through heterogeneous systems; and various microscopic surface phenomena associated with adsorption, aggregation, erosion and chemical dissolution. We review these applications and discuss the usefulness and limitations of fractal analysis to these types of problems in the earth sciences.

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EASYDAB (Earth System Data Branding) for FAIR and Open Data

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2139 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Anette Ganske ◽

Amandine Kaiser ◽

Angelina Kraft ◽

Daniel Heydebreck ◽

Andrea Lammert ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Open Data ◽

Atmospheric Model ◽

Research Data ◽

Quality Data ◽

Data Repository ◽

Earth System ◽

Model Data ◽

Core Element ◽

The Earth ◽

High Maturity

As in many scientific disciplines, there are a variety of activities in Earth system sciences that address the important aspects of good research data management. What has not been sufficiently investigated and dealt with so far is the easy discoverability and re-use of quality-checked data. This aspect is taken up by the EASYDAB label.EASYDAB1 is a currently developed branding for FAIR and open data from the Earth System Sciences. The branding can be adopted by institutions running a data repository which stores data from the Earth System Sciences. EASYDAB is always connected to a research data publication with DataCite DOIs. Data published under EASYDAB are characterized by a high maturity, extensive metadata information and compliance with a comprehensive discipline-specific standard. For these datasets, the EASYDAB logo is added to the landing page of the data repository. Thereby, repositories can indicate their efforts to publish data with high maturity.The first standard made for EASYDAB is the ATMODAT standard2, which has been developed within the AtMoDat3 project (Atmospheric Model Data). It incorporates concrete recommendations and requirements related to the maturity, publication and enhanced FAIRness of atmospheric model data. The requirements are for rich metadata with controlled vocabularies, structured landing pages, file formats (netCDF) and the structure within files. Human- and machine-readable landing pages are a core element of the ATMODAT standard and should hold and present discipline-specific metadata on simulation and variable level.&#160;The ATMODAT standard includes checklists for the data producer and the data curator so that the compliance with the standard can easily be obtained by both sides. To facilitate automatic checking of the netCDF files headers, a checker program will also be provided and published with DOI. Moreover, a checker for the compliance with the requirements for the DOI Metadata will be developed and made openly available.&#160;The integration of standards from other disciplines in the Earth System Sciences, such as oceanography, into EASYDAB is helpful and desirable to improve the re-use of reviewed, high-quality data.&#160;&#160;1www.easydab.de2https://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/cerasearch/entry?acronym=atmodat_standard_en_v3_03www.atmodat.de

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Two Visions of the Earth

The Rejection of Continental Drift ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195117325.003.0007 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Naomi Oreskes

Keyword(s):

Earth Sciences ◽

Plate Tectonics ◽

Continental Drift ◽

Geological Data ◽

The Past ◽

The Earth ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Face ◽

Bohr Atom ◽

Similar Theory

Plate tectonics is the unifying theory of modern geology. This theory, which holds that the major features of the earth’s surface are created by horizontal motions of the continents, has been hailed as the geological equivalent of the “theory of the Bohr atom in its simplicity, its elegance, and its ability to explain a wide range of observation,” in the words of A. Cox. Developed in the mid-1960s, plate tectonics rapidly took hold, so that by 1971, Gass, Smith, and Wilson could say in their introductory textbook in geology: . . . During the last decade, there has been a revolution in earth sciences . . . which has led to the wide acceptance that continents drift about the face of the earth and that the sea-floor spreads, continually being created and destroyed. Finally in the last two to three years, it has culminated in an all-embracing theory known as “plate tectonics.” The success of plate tectonics theory is not only that it explains the geophysical evidence, but that it also presents a framework within which geological data, painstakingly accumulated by land-bound geologists over the past two centuries, can be fitted. Furthermore, it has taken the earth sciences to the stage where they can not only explain what has happened in the past, and is happening at the present time, but can also predict what will happen in the future. . . . Today moving continents are a scientific fact. But some forty years before the advent of the theory of plate tectonics, a very similar theory, initially known as the “displacement hypothesis,” was proposed and rejected by the geological fraternity. In 1912, a German meteorologist and geophysicist, Alfred Wegener, proposed that the continents of the earth were mobile; in the decade that followed he developed this idea into a full-fledged theory of tectonics that was widely discussed and debated and came to be known as the theory of continental drift. To a modern geologist, raised in the school of plate tectonics, Wegener’s book, The Origin of Continents and Oceans, appears an impressive and prescient document that contains many of the essential features of plate tectonic theory.

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Guidelines on Recommending Data Repositories as Partners in Publishing Research Data

International Journal of Digital Curation ◽

10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.309 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 152-163 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Sarah Callaghan ◽

Jonathan Tedds ◽

John Kunze ◽

Varsha Khodiyar ◽

Rebecca Lawrence ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Publishing Research ◽

Research Data ◽

Research Publication ◽

Data Repositories ◽

Data Publication ◽

The Future ◽

Key Issues ◽

The Uk

This document summarises guidelines produced by the UK Jisc-funded PREPARDE data publication project on the key issues of repository accreditation. It aims to lay out the principles and the requirements for data repositories intent on providing a dataset as part of the research record and as part of a research publication. The data publication requirements that repository accreditation may support are rapidly changing, hence this paper is intended as a provocation for further discussion and development in the future.

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