Use of open data to analyze the publication of articles in scientific events

Objective. This article has analyzed the publications of articles in scientific events using open data from the Lattes Platform. Design/Methodology/Approach. The LattesDataXplorer tool was used to extract curricular data from the Lattes Platform. The selection stage consisted of verifying which curricula had works published in scientific events. In the treatment stage, a characterization of the articles was carried out, thus allowing the analysis of articles published in scientific events. Results/Discussion. It was possible to carry out some characterizations such as temporal analysis, analysis by a large area of expertise, and which articles use persistent identifiers. The temporal analysis made it possible to verify how many articles were published per year. Through the analysis by a large area of action, the individuals with the highest and lowest rate of publication in annals of events were identified. Approximately 3% of articles report the persistent identifier (DOI). Conclusions. The peak of publications is in 2011, afterwards, there was a significant drop. Individuals from Health Sciences have a higher rate of publication in event proceedings, while individuals from the Exact and Earth Sciences have a lower volume of publications. Only 30,936 of the articles have a persistent identifier, but individuals from the Exact and Earth Sciences (30.68%) are the ones who use persistent identifiers the most. Originality/Value. From data extracted from the Lattes Platform, the results of original research that seeks to characterize Brazilian scientific production utilizing events are presented.

A choice of persistent identifier schemes for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo)

Persistent identifiers (PID) to identify digital representations of physical specimens in natural science collections (i.e., digital specimens) unambiguously and uniquely on the Internet are one of the mechanisms for digitally transforming collections-based science. Digital Specimen PIDs contribute to building and maintaining long-term community trust in the accuracy and authenticity of the scientific data to be managed and presented by the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) research infrastructure planned in Europe to commence implementation in 2024. Not only are such PIDs valid over the very long timescales common in the heritage sector but they can also transcend changes in underlying technologies of their implementation. They are part of the mechanism for widening access to natural science collections. DiSSCo technical experts previously selected the Handle System as the choice to meet core PID requirements. Using a two-step approach, this options appraisal captures, characterises and analyses different alternative Handle-based PID schemes and the possible operational modes of use. In a first step a weighting and ranking the options has been applied followed by a structured qualitative assessment of social and technical compliance across several assessment dimensions: levels of scalability, community trust, persistence, governance, appropriateness of the scheme and suitability for future global adoption. The results are discussed in relation to branding, community perceptions and global context to determine a preferred PID scheme for DiSSCo that also has potential for adoption and acceptance globally. DiSSCo will adopt a ‘driven-by DOI’ persistent identifier (PID) scheme customised with natural sciences community characteristics. Establishing a new Registration Agency in collaboration with the International DOI Foundation is a practical way forward to support the FAIR (findable, accessible interoperable, reusable) data architecture of DiSSCo research infrastructure. This approach is compatible with the policies of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and is aligned to existing practices across the global community of natural science collections.

The DataCite Technology Stack

DataCite is a DOI registration agency that enables the registration of scholarly content with a persistent identifier (DOI) and metadata. This content can then be searched for, reused, and connected to other scholarly resources. ...

Using taxonomic treatments to assess an author’s career: the impactful Jocélia Grazia

Here we present a descriptive analysis of the bibliographic production of the world-renowned heteropterist Dr. Jocélia Grazia and comments on her taxonomic reach based on extracted taxonomic treatments. We analyzed a total of 219 published documents, including scientific papers, scientific notes, and book chapters. Additionally, we applied the Plazi workflow to extract taxonomic treatments, images, tables, treatment citations and materials citations, and references from 75 different documents in accordance with the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse) principles and made them available on the Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR), hosted on Zenodo, and on TreatmentBank. We found that Dr. Grazia published 200 new names, including species (183) and genera (17), and 1,444 taxonomic treatments in total. From these, 104 and 581, respectively, were extracted after applying the Plazi Workflow. A total of 544 figures, 50 tables, 2,242 references, 2,107 materials citations, and 1,101 treatment citations were also extracted. In order to make her publications properly citable and accessible, we assigned DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) for all publications that lacked this persistent identifier, including those that were not processed (88 in total), therefore enhancing the open-access share of her publications.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Under the Context of Research Data Librarianship

A digital object identifier (DOI) is an increasingly prominent persistent identifier in finding and accessing scholarly information. This paper intends to present an overview of global development and approaches in the field of DOI and DOI services with a slight geographical focus on Germany. At first, the initiation and components of the DOI system and the structure of a DOI name are explored. Next, the fundamental and specific characteristics of DOIs are described and DOIs for three (3) kinds of typical intellectual entities in the scholar communication are dealt with; then, a general DOI service pyramid is sketched with brief descriptions of functions of institutions at different levels. After that, approaches of the research data librarianship community in the field of RDM, especially DOI services, are elaborated. As examples, the DOI services provided in German research libraries as well as best practices of DOI services in a German library are introduced; and finally, the current practices and some issues dealing with DOIs are summarized. It is foreseeable that DOI, which is crucial to FAIR research data, will gain extensive recognition in the scientific world.

Open Science—A Question of Trust

Collaboration and the sharing of knowledge is at the heart of Open Science (OS). However, we need to know that the knowledge we find and share is really what it purports to be; and we need to know that the authors we hope to collaborate with are really the people they claim to be. In this paper, the author argues that a prerequisite for OS is trust and that persistent identifiers help to build that trust. The persistent identifier systems must themselves be trustworthy and they must be able to connect the user or their machine to the information they need now and into the future. Infrastructure is rather like plumbing: It goes unnoticed and unappreciated until it fails. This paper puts infrastructure for persistent identifiers in the spotlight as a core component of OS.

EukProt: a database of genome-scale predicted proteins across the diversity of eukaryotic life

EukProt is a database of published and publicly available predicted protein sets and unannotated genomes selected to represent eukaryotic diversity, including 742 species from all major supergroups as well as orphan taxa. The goal of the database is to provide a single, convenient resource for studies in phylogenomics, gene family evolution, and other gene-based research across the spectrum of eukaryotic life. Each species is placed within the UniEuk taxonomic framework in order to facilitate downstream analyses, and each data set is associated with a unique, persistent identifier to facilitate comparison and replication among analyses. The database is currently in version 2, and all versions will be permanently stored and made available via FigShare. We invite the community to provide suggestions for new data sets and new annotation features to be included in subsequent versions, with the goal of building a collaborative resource that will promote research to understand eukaryotic diversity and diversification.

ENVRI knowledge base: A community knowledge base for research, innovation and society

<p>The Horizon 2020 ENVRI-FAIR project brings together 14 European environmental research infrastructures (ENVRI) to develop solutions to improve the FAIRness of their data and services, and eventually to connect the ENVRI community with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It is thus essential to share the reusable solutions while RIs are tackling common challenges in improving their FAIRness, and to continually assess the FAIRness of ENVRI (meta)data services as they are developed. <br>The FAIRness assessment is, however, far from trivial. On the one hand, the task relies on gathering the required information from RIs, e.g. information about the metadata and data repositories operated by RIs, the kind of metadata standards repositories implement, the use of persistent identifier systems. Such information is gathered using questionnaires whose processing can be time-consuming. On the other hand, to enable efficient querying, processing and analysis, the information needs to be machine-actionable and curated in a knowledge base.<br>Besides acting as a general resource to learn about RIs, the ENVRI knowledge base (KB) supports RI managers in identifying current gaps in their RI’s implementation of the FAIR Data Principles. For instance, a RI manager can interrogate the KB to discover whether a data repository of the RI uses a persistent identifier service or if the repository is certified according to some scheme. Having identified a gap, the KB can support the RI manager in exploring the solutions implemented by other RIs.<br>By linking questionnaire information to training resources, the KB also supports the discovery of materials that provide hands-on demonstrations for how state-of-the-art technologies can be used and implemented to address FAIR requirements. For instance, if a RI manager discovers that the metadata of one of the RI’s repositories does not include machine-readable provenance, the ENVRI KB can inform the manager about available training material demonstrating how the PROV Ontology can be used to implement machine-readable provenance in systems. Such demonstrators can be highly actionable as they can be implemented in Jupyter and executed with services such as mybinder. Thus, the KB can seamlessly integrate the state of FAIR implementation in RIs with actionable training material and is therefore a resource that is expected to contribute substantially to improving ENVRI FAIRness.<br>The ENVRI KB is implemented using the W3C Recommendations developed within the Semantic Web Activity, specifically RDF, OWL, and SPARQL. To effectively expose its content to RI communities, ranging from scientists to managers, and other stakeholders, the ENVRI-FAIR KB will need a customisable user interface for context-aware information discovery, visualisation, and content update. The current prototype can be accessed: kb.oil-e.net. </p>

Towards Trusted Identities for Swiss Researchers and their Data

In this paper we report on efforts to enhance the Swiss persistent identifier (PID) ecosystem. We will firstly describe the current situation and the need for improvement in order to describe in full detail the steps undertaken to create a Swiss-wide model. A case study was undertaken by using several data sets from the domains of art and design in the context of the ICOPAD project. We will provide a set of recommendations to enable a PID service that could mint Archival Resource Key (ARK) identifiers or a flavour of Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) as complement to Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). We will conclude with some remarks concerning the transferability of this approach to other areas and the requirements for a national hub for PID management in Switzerland.

Ready to use implementation of project’s data portal with catalogue for findability, common services (SFTP,OPeNDAP) and persistent identifier for accessibility and interoperability

This document describes the GEOMAR data portal used by the data management team to make data openly accessible that do not fit into a specialized repository.