Why not Publish Data alongside Journals and Books

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Why not Publish Data alongside Journals and
Books?
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An article is . . .

A piece of data that is presented in a static,
two-dimensional, form.

Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef, 2007
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• Print

Static, two-dimensional objects
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Active, two-dimensional object
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Another active, two-dimensional object?
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Its a view on a datacube
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Active, multi-dimensional object!
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http//dx.doi.org/10.1787.280675838368
OECD ArticleStatic, two-dimensional object
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And we can manage all this linking inside OECDs
e-publishing platform.
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Excel Active 2 dimensional object
Dataset Active multi- dimensional object
Dataset
OECD Regional Database
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So, we can manage all this linking inside OECDs
e-publishing platform.
How about elsewhere? How are other publishers,
authors and librarians coping with data?
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Chart from The Economist
Source OECD
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Taken from an appendix to an article published in
Elseviers World Development
Source Acemoglu et al (2001), based on Curtin,
1989, Philip D. Curtin, Death by migration
Europes encounter with the tropical world in the
nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press,
New York (1989).Curtin 1989 and other sources.
Tertiary school enrollment School enrollment,
tertiary ( of gross). Source Barro and Lee
(2000) and their databases.
You cant fault the author for trying . . . but
its not a lot of help for a reader
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And Librarians, How many are cataloguing
datasets in their OPACs?
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DatasetsScholarly Publishings Lost Sheep?
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AI subject portals
Publishers
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and
Books
Library portals
Ingenta
Content Aggregators
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AI subject portals
Publishers
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and
Books
Library portals
Ingenta
Content Aggregators
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AI subject portals
Publishers
EconLitRePEc
ScienceDirect
OPACs
Scholarly Publishing Sites for Journals and
Books
Library portals
Ingenta
Content Aggregators
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By creating metadata for Datasets In the same
industry standard formats as . . .Book
chapters and Journal articles
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Authors will be able to cite . . .
Publishers will be able to link . . .
Discovery systems will be able to find . . .
Librarians will be able to catalogue . . .
Datasets alongside published outputs . . .
. . . to the benefit of Everyone
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A proposed example of a dataset using standard
bibliographic and citation metadata.
Dataset title with ISSN, DOI ( MARC) record
Citation tool compatible with EndNotes et al
Bibliography of Books that cite this database
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OECD is

• issuing a white paper on Publishing Standards
  for Datasets due for release next week
• working with CrossRef on citation standards for
  dynamic objects
• will be publishing OECD datasets with
  sheepdogs from mid-2009 MARC records ONIX
  records Citation records

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There are still challenges - Dynamic data -
Versioning - Preservation
But, lets round the sheep up first.
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Websites with data visualisation gizmos

• IMF Datamapper on www.imf.org. See also
  www.mappingworlds.com who provided the
  technology.
• See Gapcasts and Trendalyzer on www.gapminder.org
• OECD Regional Statistics data using the eXplorer
  tool tool from NCVA, http//ncva.itn.liu.se/
• The New York Times uses a lot of dynamic graphics
  
• USA Today built their reputation on graphics
  now theyre doing it online. We like How much is
  700bn?
• Economists Chart Gallery isnt interactive but
  they generate a lot of comment.
• Data sharing sites include www.swivel.com,
  www.many-eyes.com an newcomers www.icharts.net
  and www.widgenie.com .
• There are many blogs on charts or visualization
  such as www.flowingdata.com or www.eagereyes.org
• Enjoy!