Care about data citation? Then you care about text-mining access.

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“Text-mining access sounds like a pretty niche need.  It isn’t.  One of the use cases is near and dear to readers of this blog. You know all of our excitement about research data?  Making it available, making it citable, rewarding the data-producing investigators?  It only works if we can indeed identify the research that is built on a dataset and then include the reuse stats in CVs and reports and webpages.  What tools can we use for this today? Google Scholar: nope.  They’ve said that if they support tracking datasets today it is by accident and they plan to remove such support in the future.  Futhermore Google Scholar offers no API access to its data (and has said it will not offer such access for years, if ever), so any numbers you calculate with it today can only be viewed on the Google website or through manual copy-and-paste into reports. Web of Science and Scopus:  nope.  They still don’t support tracking dataset identifiers.   I believe they’ve been working on it — for at least the last two years.  Apparently not much of a priority.  Even when it does work, the terms of use on their API access forbid open redistribution of the statistics, so no great reports and no custom stats on your data repository pages... total-impact and altmetric.com: a few altmetrics tools are actively building  support for tracking dataset reuse. You know what these altmetrics tools — or any new tool that we hope will solve this problem — needs to be successful?  Programmatic access to the literature.  Need to be able to search across all papers for dataset identifiers and find them in full text and reference lists.  Furthermore, ideally we need to be able to do more advanced text analysis to distinguish between whether an ID is mentioned because the paper is talking about having *gotten* the data from somewhere as opposed to having *put* it somewhere. Anyway.  This?  This is text mining.  This is just one of the reasons we all need text-mining access, we need it to everything, and we need it now. Get the ball rolling at your institution too.”

Link:

http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/data-citation-text-mining/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.mining oa.comment oa.impact oa.usage oa.repositories.data oa.citations oa.indexing oa.apis oa.altmetric.com oa.altmetrics oa.dois oa.scopus oa.total-impact oa.metrics oa.repositories oa.google_scholar

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 18:12

Date published:

04/20/2012, 16:36