Data publishing & quality

Data workflows

ILRI’s data management process - 2014

Data quality and digital data collection

Data Quality Workflows - Annual meeting of Data Management ask Force - 2017

How to measure and monitor the quality of master data — What, why, how of data quality -- and links to many other interesting resources

Open Data Kit — Open Data Kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set of tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for users to:* Build a data collection form or survey (XLSForm is recommended for larger forms);* Collect the data on a mobile device and send it to a server; and* Aggregate the collected data on a server and extract it in useful formats.

Licencing

Choosing a license — CC website that helps you choose the appropriate license.

Easy-to-follow workflow to help you choose an appropriate license for your research output. 

Creative Commons Licenses — All about Creative Commons licences -- and when to use what license.

Quick reference guide on creative commons licenses. Author: M. Garruccio, 2019 

Why CC-BY? — Detailed explanation of why the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association recommends journals and authors use a CC-BY license.

OA Clauses Publisher Licenses 2013 - This report presents the result of an environmental scan of licensing language for article deposit, and some lessons learned from organizations successful in implementing OA clauses in publisher licenses

Metadata

CGCore website

CGcore Basic for researchers - 2016

CCAFS Metadata - This document is part of the CCAFS Data Management Support Pack produced by the Statistical Services Centre, University of Reading, UK.

ILRI Datasets Metadata Template - 2014

Metadata Standards-4DataPortal - 2016

TransPlant Phenotype Standardization activities focus on: * Standardisation of metadata: Minimum Information about Plant Phenotyping Experiment. * Standardisation of vocabulary: Recommendations regarding the use of ontologies. * Formats for phenotypic data exchange.

Open data journals

CGIAR Author Guidance

List of Open Access journals, with impact factor and APCs. Please add/edit as appropriate -2016

About Data Journals — Short guide from Australian National Data Service -- what are data journals, why use them, examples of data journals

Biodiversity Data Journal — Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) is a community peer-reviewed, open-access, comprehensive online platform, designed to accelerate publishing, dissemination and sharing of biodiversity-related data of any kind.

EPJ Data Science — EPJ Data Science covers a broad range of research areas and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, human behavior, social interaction (including animal societies), economic and financial systems, management and business networks, socio-technical infrastructure, health and environmental systems, the science of science, and general risk and crisis scenario forecasting up to and including policy advice.

Genomics Data — Genomics Data is an open access journal that considers articles on all aspects of genome-scale analysis: *Limited only to nucleic acids analysis; * Microarray and Next-Gen Sequencing data; *All organisms

Open Data Journal for Agricultural Research - ODjAR — The Open Data Journal for Agriculture Research (ODjAR) will be live soon. It acts as a hub for storing, curating and publishing data sets, allowing authors to get appropriate credit through citations and digital object identifiers for future reference.

Scientific Data — Scientific Data is an open-access, online-only publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, and exists to help you publish, discover and reuse research data. Scientific Data is open to submissions from a broad range of natural science disciplines, including descriptions of big and small data, from major consortiums and single labs.