[open-science] OKF tools: ckan.org, thedatahub.org

Thu Apr 5 13:52:50 UTC 2012

For those that are interested and might now know about it. The Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University in partnership with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek  are investigating automated ways of extracting/mining data and metadata from research output via the DiggiCore project
http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/about-diggicore-project

From: Stacy Konkiel [mailto:stacy.konkiel at gmail.com]
Sent: 04 April 2012 23:00
To: Mike Taylor
Cc: Tom Roche; open-science at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [open-science] OKF tools: ckan.org, thedatahub.org

Right--the question I'm getting at is how do we make your entering that data even easier, and how do we keep the metadata from getting lost? We build systems that are more interoperable (to replicate and make discoverable  both data and its metadata).
On Apr 4, 2012 5:07 PM, "Mike Taylor" <mike at indexdata.com<mailto:mike at indexdata.com>> wrote:
On 4 April 2012 19:32, Stacy Konkiel <stacy.konkiel at gmail.com<mailto:stacy.konkiel at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Peter's right about metadata. One of the hardest nuts to crack re:
> data repositories and making data more discoverable seems to be
> metadata--how do we get scientists to supply metadata without creating
> more work for them.

The tragedy is, scientists DO create this metadata: every online
submission system I've ever used has required me to enter authors and
addresses, keywords, number of figures, etc.  Yet that all gets thrown
away once the Holy PDF has been made.

-- Mike.

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