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Data Sharing

Introduction

Data Items as Papers

In the new environment of modern scientific publishing, data items are finally getting the equivalent status of papers. We can today publish a dataset and get a Digital Object Identifier DOI reference to it, making it citable.

For example

Ortega, Ana; Behdadfar, Sareh; Li, Lin; Zenteno, Omar (2014):
Tralitus Saltator. figshare.
(http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1066744)

Career Rewards

Now that data items are citable, data sharing activities can be accounted as part of the career reward system for researchers. Thus recognizing the valuable contributions that data sharers make to their respective fields and communities.

In this new environment, data items no longer need to be sequestered until a traditional article is published. Instead, data can be shared immediately after acquisition for the benefit of the larger scientific community.

Data Sharing Sites

Many data sharing sites are available.

Here are a few examples, that are focused on certain communities

You may find additional specific data sharing sites for your specific field.

Hands-On

Now that we have acquired several images in the mobile device, it is time to move these images to an online platform where they can be cataloged, linked to, and downloaded.

Here we are going to perform this in three steps:

  • Export images from the mobile device
  • Upload images to a data sharing web site
  • Download images via REST API

Exporting images

There are many options for exporting images from your mobile device (phone or tablet). They depend on the type of mobile device that you are using. Here we will explore a few. They are not necessarily optimal for regular scientific work, but they will take us end-to-end through this exercise.

Email

  • From your mobile device:
    • Using the Sharing options, email the image to yourself.
    • You may want to use your Gmail account for this purpuose.
  • From your laptop:
    • Open the email
    • Download the attached image

Google+

If you are using an Android device, this might be the most straight-forward method to use.

  • From your mobile device: Share the image as a post in G+.
  • From your laptop: Visit the G+ post and download the image.

Twitter

  • From your mobile: Tweet the image using the hashtags
    • #reproducibleresearch
    • #scipy2014
    • #openscience
  • From your laptop: Visit the twitter page and
    • Click on the image
    • Right click on it to get the URL of the image
    • Download the image in to your local laptop filesystem

Sharing images

Now that you have brought the images to a hard disk, you can upload them to your data sharing account. Here we focus on using Figshare, but keep in mind that other data sharing sites are also available.

Publishing

  • This step is equivalent to serious publishing
  • Please use real descriptions and informative tags
  • Since this image is going to receive a real DOI identifier, just like a published paper

Figshare

  • Login to your Figshare account
  • Click on the Upload link at the top of the page
  • Go to the My Data link at the top of the page and find your new uploaded image in the list
  • On the Status column, click on the "DRAFT" button
    • Select a title for the image (use a serious and descriptive title)
    • Select a Category, from the dropdown menu
      • In our case, we could use "Biological Techniques"
    • Enter a serious description in the "Description" field.
    • Click on the "Public" button, on the bottom right, to make the image publicly available
    • Save the changes
    • Click on the "Publish" link, no the bottom right.
    • Answer the confirmation by clicking on the "Yes, publish" button
    • Click on "Preview" the article
  • For a given image take note of its identifier:
  • Use the identifier in the following way to get the article metadata: 

    {"count": 1, "items": [{"article_id": 1050595, "title": "Image 002", "figshare_url": "http://figshare.com/articles/Image_002/1050595", "views": 1, "downloads": 0, "shares": 0, "doi": "http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1050595", "publisher_doi": "", "publisher_citation": "", "master_publisher_id": 0, "defined_type": "figure", "status": "Public", "version": 1, "published_date": "23:09, Jun 14, 2014", "description": "
Image of Tardigrade acquired with a cell phone water drop microscope
", "description_nohtml": "Image of Tardigrade acquired with a cell phone water drop microscope", "total_size": "85.10 KB", "owner": {"id": 97454, "full_name": "Luis Ibanez"}, "authors": [{"first_name": "Luis", "last_name": "Ibanez", "id": 97454, "full_name": "Luis Ibanez"}], "tags": [{"id": 247678, "name": "diy microscopy"}, {"id": 98329, "name": "tardigrades"}], "categories": [{"id": 12, "name": "Cell Biology"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Microbiology"}], "files": [{"thumb": "http://previews.figshare.com/1526484/250_1526484.jpg", "download_url": "http://files.figshare.com/1526484/IMG_20140331_131717.jpeg", "name": "IMG_20140331_131717.jpeg", "id": 1526484, "mime_type": "image/jpeg", "size": "87 KB"}], "links": []}]}

More on the Figshare API at [http://api.figshare.com/docs/]