{"id":27090,"date":"2024-06-11T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=27090"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:55:01","slug":"data-discoverability-as-a-feature-of-journal-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/?p=27090","title":{"rendered":"Data Discoverability as a feature of Journal Articles."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I can remember a time when journal articles carried selected data within their body as e.g.<\/em> Tables, Figures or Experimental procedures, with the rest consigned to a box of paper deposited (for UK journals) at the British library. Then came ESI or electronic supporting information. Most recently, many journals are now including what is called a “Data availability<\/strong>” statement at the end of an article, which often just cites the ESI, but can increasingly \u00a0point to so-called FAIR data. The latter is especially important in the new AI-age (“FAIR is AI-Ready”).\u00a0One attribute of FAIR data is that it can be associated with a\u00a0DOI in addition to that assigned to the article itself, and we have been promoting the inclusion of that Data DOI in the citation list of the article.[1]<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Since the data can also cite the article, a bidirectional link between data and article is established. ESI itself can exceed 1000 “pages” of a PDF document and examples of chemical FAIR data exceeding 62 Gbytes[2]<\/a><\/span> (Also see DOI: 10.14469\/hpc\/10386<\/a>) are known. Finding the chemical needle in that data haystack can become a serious problem. So here I illustrate a recent suggestion for moving to the next stage, namely the inclusion of a “Data Availability and Discovery<\/strong>” statement. The below is the text of such a statement in a recently published article.[3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Data availability and discovery statement<\/strong>. Available as a FAIR\u00a0and AI-ready data collection accessible via doi: 10.14469\/hpc\/13058<\/a> for the overall collection18<\/sup> and Findable by following the hierarchy of data collections identified there. The data discovery and accessibility aspects are further enabled by using one of the following methods.<\/em><\/p>\n