Ask the Experts about Open Data

Open Data is an important topic for scholarly publishing. From the Nelson memo to the requirements for providing open data to thinking about Data Accessibility Statements, there has been a lot of movement in this pivotal aspect of publishing over the past few years. During this event we will hear from three experts who are each leading a number of recent developments in open data: work on ‘Make Data Count’, an initiative that aims to develop metrics to enable evaluation and reward of open data reuse and impact, recent work on the NIST Research Data Framework, and work by a National Data Service of Sweden with publishers and researchers to make sure that Swedish research data is shared as openly as possible. Questions addressed will include: - What is the importance of open data? - What would an ideal ‘open data’ future look like? - What roles can publishers play in this future? - What are the most steps to take right now?

Publication Date

2023 | September

Ask The Experts

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Our Ask the Experts series allows attendees to steer the discussion, asking whatever questions they’d like of our panel of experts. The discussion groups are a great opportunity to learn about an emerging trend in scholarly communication and explore how it can benefit your work.

Andrea Medina-Smith

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Data Librarian, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Anita De Waard

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VP Research Collaborations, Elsevier

Anita de Waard (she/her) is VP of Research Collaborations at Elsevier. Her work focuses on working with academic and industry partners on projects pertaining to progressing modes and frameworks for scholarly communication. Since 1997, she has worked on bridging the gap between science publishing and computational and information technologies: efforts include working on a semantic model for research papers, co-founding "FORCE11: The Future of Research Communications and E-Science" (Force11.org), and supporting the development of standards and models for research data management and a series of workshops on Scholarly Document Processing, https://sdproc.org/, Anita has a degree in low-temperature physics from Leiden University and worked in Moscow before joining Elsevier as a physics publisher in 1988; she hails from the Netherlands and lives in a forest in Vermont.

Iratxe Puebla

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Director, Make Data Count

Iratxe Puebla is Director of Make Data Count at DataCite, where she leads efforts to develop and advance responsible data metrics to enable evaluation and reward of research data reuse and impact. Prior to this role, Iratxe worked at ASAPbio, where she drove initiatives to promote the productive use of preprints in the life sciences and greater transparency in peer review. Iratxe has also held editorial roles at different open-access journals and served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE, where she was actively involved in editorial policy development and open science initiatives. Iratxe is also co-founder of the FORCE11/COPE Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group.

Max Petzold

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Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Gothenburg

Max Petzold is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Gothenburg since July 2023. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor is responsible for issues regarding digitalization and knowledge transfer has the overall responsibility for digitalization, open science, ethics, information security, sustainability and internationalization related to research. The assignment includes overall responsibility for development in relation to societal challenges locally, nationally and internationally, as well as chairmanship of the Library Board and the Committee for Ethics in Research, and vice chairmanship of the Research Board. Max Petzold is Professor of biostatistics. He served previously as the Director of the Swedish National Data Service, SND