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The Specialised Information Service for Geosciences (FID GEO): Supporting Open Access Publications for the Geosciences Community in Germany
No full textThe shift towards Open Science practices is increasingly demanded by science policy. The transition to Open Access for text publications goes hand in hand with a growing demand to make data, scientific software and samples, freely and FAIRly available to the general public. A persistent problem here is the clear and permanent accessibility and re-usability of scientific publications. This development affects both the scientific publication culture as well as the information infrastructures and poses major challenges to the German- based geosciences community. The specialized information service for geosciences (FID GEO) is a service funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and supports the cultural change towards Open Access publications. Hereby, FID GEO pursues a holistic approach to Open Science, including scientific literature, data, samples, and scientific software, and aims to promote their interconnection. FID GEO actively provides data and text publishing services through the affiliated repositories GFZ Data Services and GEO-LEOe-docs, as well as an on-demand digitization service of printed geoscientific literature and maps. The focus here is on the services and information systems that ensure permanently available and reliably citable publications of writings and data. Specifically, the service for text publications is provided in the FID GEOs own subject repository GEO-LEOe- docs. The affiliated research data repository GFZ Data Services is available for the publication of research data and scientific software from the earth and environmental sciences. In addition, FID GEO aims to comprehensively inform the German-based geoscientific community about Open Science and FAIR data by bringing the discussions to the individual disciplines through various communication channels. To strengthen the open information culture in the geosciences, FID GEO collaborates with strategic (inter)national initiatives such as NFDI4Earth, COPDESS and OneGeochemistry
FID GEO: promoting cultural change towards Open Access and FAIR data in the German geoscientific communityZ Data Services – A domain repository for geosciences data
No full textThe rise of Open Science practices is impacting the entire scientific publishing culture. The transition to Open Access for text publications goes hand in hand with the growing demand to make scientific data and software available to the general public. The FAIR data principles play a key role in this, designed to make research and the underlying data easily findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable for humans and machines. Geosciences data are as diverse as their content. They range from large real-time data streams of international observing networks to small data sets produced by individual researchers at their laboratories. Consequently, there need to be different strategies for data management and publication in which research data repositories can be important partners for the researchers. The Specialised Information Service for Geoscience (FID GEO) is a DFG-funded project that is promoting a holistic approach of Open Science that includes scholarly literature, data, samples, and scientific software equally and pushes for their interlinkage. FID GEO has become an important player for connecting researchers, data repositories, information infrastructures, German geoscientific societies, and publishers. FID GEO actively provides data and text publishing services through its affiliated repositories GFZ Data Services and GEO-LEOe-docs, as well as on-demand digitization of printed geoscience literature and maps. In addition, FID GEO aims to inform the German-based geoscience community about all aspects of Open Science and FAIR data by bringing the discussions to the individual disciplines through various communication channels
Fachinformationsdienst Geowissenschaften - Services und Beratungsangebote rund um Open Science für Geowissenschaften
No full textFachinformationsdienst Geowissenschaften - Services und Beratungsangebote rund um Open Science für Geowissenschaften. Präsentation beim DFG-Rundgespräch zur Vernetzung von Fachinformationsdiensten mit den Konsortien der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur am 08. November 2021 (online
FID GEO: Promoting Open Science in the Geosciences
No full textThe rise of Open Science practices is impacting the entire scientific publishing culture. The transition to Open Access for text publications goes hand in hand with the growing demand to make scientific data and software available to the general public. The FAIR data principles play a key role in this, designed to make research and the underlying data easily findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable for humans and machines. Geosciences data are as diverse as their content. They range from large real-time data streams of international observing networks to small data sets produced by individual researchers at their laboratories. Consequently, there need to be different strategies for data management and publication in which research data repositories can be important partners for the researchers. The Specialised Information Service for Geoscience (FID GEO) is a DFG-funded project that is promoting a holistic approach of Open Science that includes scholarly literature, data, samples, and scientific software equally and pushes for their interlinkage. FID GEO has become an important player for connecting researchers, data repositories, information infrastructures, German geoscientific societies, and publishers. FID GEO actively provides data and text publishing services through its affiliated repositories GFZ Data Services and GEO-LEOe-docs, as well as on-demand digitization of printed geoscience literature and maps. In addition, FID GEO aims to inform the German-based geoscience community about all aspects of Open Science and FAIR data by bringing the discussions to the individual disciplines through various communication channels
Diversity of data stewardship within a federated research infrastructure
No full textDiversity of data stewardship within a federated research infrastructure
As the requirements for research data and its handling are constantly changing, the range of tasks and topics in scientific institutions is also becoming more diverse and larger. This poster will outline the diverse developments, challenges and difficulties surrounding the topic of research data in a federated, decentralized research infrastructure such as the Helmholtz Association from a cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary perspective. As interest in managing research data increases in many parts of the research ecosystem, policies and infrastructures are being implemented in more and more contexts.
Data management teams can consist of data stewards, librarians, software developers, and scientists from various research areas. They create conditions to ensure digital reproducibility and best practices for research data. Data stewards collaborate with researchers in a research ecosystem on different levels. In a large scientific organization, they can be deployed for specific research disciplines, priority initiatives, major projects or in infrastructure-related services. Data stewardship includes responsibility for data and coordinating the necessary activities for data exchange processes, including the collection, storage, backup and use of data[i] also with regard to licensing agreements and ethical standards. Therefore, data stewards assist researchers in practical applications, enabling scientists to benefit from research processes.
It is a challenge to make different data sets from the scientific process of various disciplines findable and reusable. A central tool is the use of metadata to enrich research data with standardized and machine-readable information. To coordinate this process, central infrastructures such as the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) and the Helmholtz Federated IT-Services (HIFIS), bundle scientific expertise from various research areas on the subject of metadata or build and maintain an IT infrastructure for networking research areas and centers. For instance, they offer consulting services, provide information about suitable technical solutions, and ensure uniform scientific standards. These structures create synergies and increase the efficiency in the use of resources and knowledge throughout the research association. With these supporting infrastructures, data stewardship can benefit from a variety of services and developments, related to culture change in research data provision and reuse. At the same time, it is an overarching goal to provide research data with metadata and make it FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)[ii]. Here, the data stewards can support the digital workflow from data generation to documentation to analysis and archiving by using appropriate interfaces or linking via persistent identifiers (PIDs) on an infrastructural level.
An additional challenge in the field of data stewardship is the wide range of developments at national and international level with regard to a standardized approach to data. Data stewards also act as an interface between scientists and scientific support units, such as infrastructures internal to the institution (IT department or libraries) or even to national infrastructures such as the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).
Guidelines and policies were drawn up to coordinate the handling of research data and software in the Helmholtz Association. The requirements for the research data cycle depend on the discipline and also differ in the individual research areas. With the ongoing digitization of research and teaching, the number of research software solutions for scientific knowledge acquisition is constantly increasing. In many cases, the provision of appropriate software is of great importance for the reproducibility of data analyzes and for the subsequent use of the respective research data. For this reason, suitable referencing and provision of the software used or developed is essential. The requirements for a data steward for research software also include licensing issues. In this case, cross-research consulting offers can support the work of a data steward.
In addition, facets of open science will be considered as an essential component of FAIR data stewardship. In order to organize open science according to the principles of openness, transparency, quality assurance, networking and sustainability, researchers will be supported in the implementation by providing infrastructures, services, consulting and training. In perspective, central open science infrastructures such as publication platforms, in-house publishers, repositories and consulting services are to be established and expanded. The requirements for a cultural change with regard to open science are set out in the Helmholtz Open Science policy[iii]. A data steward plays a central role in communicating with scientists in particular and can accompany cultural changes.
In closing, current developments on research evaluation and incentives play a central role in the transformation of the scientific enterprise. For an established, sustainable research data management (RDM), the recognition of the research performance of scientists is another important component. In this context, the evaluation of new indicators for data and software products is necessary. Hereby, pure metrics are not a solution, quality issues should be central. In general, data stewardship can support research assessment in several ways. Data stewards can provide insights into the researcher’s data management practices and help them identify areas where additional support is needed[iv]. At the same time, they can help establish best practices for data management and develop services to support them. Data stewards can assist to evaluate the quality of data management plans (DMPs) and provide feedback to researchers on how to improve them[v]. In addition, they can support identifying areas where policies and guidelines need to be developed or updated. In their work, data stewards gain insights into the use of data infrastructures and can determine the need for services or tools that researchers require. They can work in both discipline-specific and general infrastructure areas, and embedding them in a data management team is one way to encourage transfer and foster changes in assessment practices.
The requirements for data stewardship should be considered in their diversity based on the federated, decentralized research association. Science supportive units offer a broad portfolio to support sustainable and FAIR RDM as well as export and publishing routines. The tasks of data stewards depend on the embedding in the scientific ecosystem. Data stewardship is intended to support cultural change in research data and software, as well as Open Science at discipline-specific or general infrastructure level
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Am Beispiel der Geowissenschaften
Full text linkDiese Veröffentlichung geht zurück auf eine Masterarbeit im Studiengang Digitales Datenmanagement, M. A. an der Fachhochschule Potsdam und der Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin.Forschungsdaten sind wesentlicher Bestandteil des Wissenschaftskreislaufes. Sie sind eine
der wesentlichsten Grundlagen von Forschung und damit auch Ausgangspunkt neuer
Erkenntnisse, von Innovationen und dadurch nicht zuletzt auch eine Basis wirtschaftlichen
Fortschritts. Gleichermaßen können Forschungsdaten durch ihre Einzigartigkeit (bspw.
Observationsdaten) Schaufenster in die Vergangenheit sein und dabei helfen, die Zukunft
zu antizipieren. Daten werden mithin als einer der Rohstoffe des 21. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet und geraten vermehrt in den Fokus verschiedener Stakeholder. Insbesondere im Rahmen öffentlich finanzierter Wissenschaft und Forschung werden die Anforderungen an Forschende immer größer, die aus der geförderten Tätigkeit entstandenen Forschungsdaten unter dem Paradigma der Open Science offen zur Verfügung zu stellen. Daraus erwachsen große Herausforderungen für Datenproduzent:innen. Denn die qualitative Aufbereitung von Forschungsdaten zum Zwecke der Publikation, um die Auffindbarkeit und sinnvolle
Nachnutzung durch Dritte zu ermöglichen, stellt eine Aufgabe mit teils erheblichen
Zusatzaufwand bei stark begrenzten zeitlichen Ressourcen dar. Die Anerkennung dieser
Zusatzleistung in der Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Leistungen könnte einen wichtigen
Anreiz für das Erbringen dieses zusätzlichen Aufwandes bieten. Die vorliegende Arbeit
geht der Frage nach, wie ein Bewertungssystem für Forschungsdatenpublikationen
aussehen könnte und nimmt dabei auch aktuell genutzte publikationsbezogene Metriken
und Indikatoren kritisch in den Blick. Insbesondere wird diskutiert, ob die FAIR-Prinzipien
bei der Erarbeitung eines Rahmenwerkes für die Qualität von Datenpublikationen operationalisiert werden können. Abschließend wird die Idee eines „Data Score" vorgestellt.
Die Arbeit fokussiert auf Datenpublikationen in den Geowissenschaften und bezieht dementsprechend die Expertise eines Ausschnitts der deutschen geowissenschaftlichen Fachgemeinschaft in Form einer Befragung ein
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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