{"id":18465,"date":"2017-06-02T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=18465"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:33:20","slug":"research-data-gravitational-waves-as-an-example-from-the-astrophysics-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rzepa.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/02\/research-data-gravitational-waves-as-an-example-from-the-astrophysics-community\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Research data: Gravitational waves as an example from the astrophysics community."},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2016, the world heard that gravitational waves had been detected and\u00a0now a third instance is reported.\u2021<\/sup> Given that the data associated with these detections are perhaps amongst the most important instances in recent times, I thought I might take a peek at how it was managed.<\/p>\n

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  1. The original report in 2016[cite]10.1103\/PhysRevLett.116.061102[\/cite] cited (Ref 116) data as DOI: 10.7935\/K5MW2F23<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. The second instance[cite]10.1103\/PhysRevLett.116.241103[\/cite] also cites (Ref 89) a DOI:\u00a010.7935\/K5H41PBP<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Today\u2020<\/sup> a third instance was reported[cite]10.1103\/PhysRevLett.118.221101[\/cite] with data cited (Ref 180) as DOI: 10.7935\/K53X84K2<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Sixth instance in 2017[cite]10.1103\/PhysRevLett.119.161101[\/cite], Data (Ref 80) DOI: 10.7935\/K5B8566F<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. A complete list of events is available at\u00a0losc.ligo.org\/events\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Each of these datasets is beautifully presented, with interactive<\/a> components making the data very accessible and indeed FAIR.\u00a0Recently, guidelines<\/a> for how to cite data have emerged and the FORCE11 organisation has interpreted them for authors<\/a>, publishers and journal editors<\/a>, and repository administrators<\/a>\u00a0and it is good that the data for these\u00a0detections has adhered to these principles. When implemented, it will identify e.g. Refs 116, 89 or 180 in the above articles with attributes that will trigger something called EventData<\/a>\u00a0with the objective that it\u00a0retrieves and exposes the activity that occurs around research data objects and brings to light links between publications and data, citations, software, reuse, documentation, etc. <\/em>At the moment I presume that these three data citations do not yet trigger any EventData. However, there are plans to for both\u00a0CrossRef and DataCite to implement search procedures to find such EventData. When this service goes live, I intend to explore its potential; watch this space.<\/p>\n

    I did one other check on each of the datasets:<\/p>\n