[Web4lib] OECD White Paper: _We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables_

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

 

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/Gerry 

 

OECD has released a white paper, We Need Publishing Standards for
Datasets and Data Tables, which examines the problems with current data
discoverability and citations and the remedy in creating industry
standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking.

 

Written by Toby Green, Head of Publishing at OECD and an expert in data
publishing, the paper details the problems with user ability to locate
and reference online data. Datasets are a significant part of the
scholarly record and being published much more frequently but with
widely inconsistent metadata, links and citations. 

 

The paper proposes bibliographic metadata standards that could be
implemented to provide users and librarians with data that is as
accessible and as easy to find and catalogue as written works like
journal articles and book chapters. By following existing scholarly
metadata standards, datasets can easily utilise the existing discovery
channels that are used by e-journals and e-books, including library
systems, cross reference linking, publishing platforms, and search
engines.

 

The paper provides straightforward standards that 'publishers,
librarians and data providers can implement to improve the accessibility
and usage of important datasets, both the data that underlies scholarly
works and data in that is published in its own right.

 

A Link To The Full Text Is Available At 

 

[http://tinyurl.com/cmeaap ]

 

/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu    

 

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