Make Data CountNew on the blog!
Iraxte Puebla provides an overview of the Make Data Count Summit 2024 earlier this month. Read to catch up on current key areas of discussion in data metrics.
#opendatametrics #OpenInfrastructure #OpenScience #MDCsummit
@Iratxe@mas has to end by thanking Wellcome Trust
and Digital Science
for financial support of #MDCsummit, and Wellcome for the very smooth hosting and organisation of this gathering
and Digital Science
for financial support of #MDCsummit, and Wellcome for the very smooth hosting and organisation of this gathering
That went quickly. Closing remarks now from @Iratxe giving us some final takeaways at the end of this years #MDCsummit
Last talk is from Chris Mentzel
giving some insight and examples from what came out of the #MDCsummit #datacitation corpus hackathon earlier this week. Went well and there were 5 projects that came out of it.
It’s not production level code but the outputs of the MDC DCC hackathon are on GitHub here https://github.com/Make-Data-Count-Community/mdc-hackathon
Alexander SchniedermannThank you all who is tooting about the #MDCsummit. Would have liked to join!
Question from Jennifer Lin on what is curreently missing/needs improvement in the corpus? Messiness, other affiliations (partner institutions), going from primary citations to secondary-tertiary-etc., i.e. to see how the data is moving and being re-used.
Clarification that the DC corpus looks at data citations and accession numbers extracted by ML approaches #MDCsummit
paulwalkThe Making Data Count meeting has been... interesting….Much talk about how to "incentivise" researchers to share their data.
20 years ago, software devs figured out that sharing source-code was A Good Idea because it enabled them to build better software.
Academic researcher seem stymied by FOMO. "If I share my data before I've published, then someone else might get the credit and I won't progress in my career”.
Maybe academic researchers get the environment they deserve :-(
#MDCSummit
Jez 🍞🌹
Really important point from Peter O'Donovan on how Wellcome Trust uses data citation metrics: it is categorically not about using it to evaluate researchers when allocating funding, but as one of a number of signals for Wellcome to assess and improve their own approach to encourage good practice.
Session now on uses of the MDC Data Citation Corpus (see https://makedatacount.org/data-citation/) chaired by Jennifer Lin and featuring Peter O’Donovan and Lynn Woolfrey #MDCsummit
I think it's really interesting that no-one in this panel session has mentioned power differences, although all the speakers have IMHO alluded to them. When we try to affect change by tweaking the criteria by which people are valued, how often do we think about who has the power to have those criteria interpreted in their favour, or to make someone do the work to meet them, and who lacks that power...?