Showing Data Citation and Reuse in the PARSEC Project

Dr Rorie Edmunds¹, Mr Matthew Buys¹, Dr Helena Cousijn¹, Ms Shelley Stall²

¹Datacite, Welfengarten 1 B,, Germany, ²American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Ave NW,, United States

The PARSEC project (Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas) has the twin goals of improving (a) research outcomes, data sharing, and data reuse, and (b) management and conservation of global biodiversity, by enabling a team of data scientists and a team of synthesis scientists to work together in real time.

As part of the project aims, the Data Science Team was charged with developing both new practices and new tools to enhance data citation, attribution, credit, and reuse. DataCite, a global non-profit organization focused on connecting research through persistent identifiers, took on the task of developing two new services that show data citation and reuse:

1. A Researcher Profile that enables researchers to discover the number of views, downloads, and citations of their openly published research datasets.
2. A data metrics widget that can be implemented by both domain-specific and institutional repositories to show views, downloads, and citations of datasets.

This presentation will introduce the PARSEC project, showcase the two new services, and explain how research connections and reuse can be tracked in DataCite Commons.

Biography:

Rorie leads the partnership between DataCite and IGSN e.V. His focus initially is to ensure existing IGSN Members and IDs smoothly transition under the DataCite framework. More generally, he is responsible for driving adoption of PIDs for physical samples, advocacy activities to scale samples community engagement, and the development of sample PID practice standards. Based in Tokyo, Rorie has 10 years’ experience of coordinating international initiatives and scaling communities globally. Before joining DataCite, he was Executive Director of ISC’s World Data System, and Head of Secretariat of CoreTrustSeal. Rorie’s research background is highly multidisciplinary. His first degree is Mathematics, and he holds a Ph.D. in Structural Geology.