[Asis-standards] Fwd: [Asis-l] NISO Releases Draft Altmetrics Recommended Practices on Data Metrics, Alternative Outputs, and Persistent Identifiers

[Mark Needleman]

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> From: NISO Announce <niso-announce at niso.org>
> Subject: [Asis-l] NISO Releases Draft Altmetrics Recommended Practices on Data Metrics, Alternative Outputs, and Persistent Identifiers
> Date: May 13, 2016 at 3:50:22 PM EDT
> To: NISO Announce <niso-announce at niso.org>
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> Baltimore, MD - May 13, 2016 - The National Information Standards
> Organization (NISO) seeks comments on three draft documents related to
> Altmetrics: NISO RP-25-201x-2A, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly
> Communications: Data Metrics; NISO RP-25-201x-2B, Persistent Identifiers in
> Scholarly Communications; and NISO RP-25-201x-2C, Alternative Outputs in
> Scholarly Communications.
> 
> These documents are the latest outputs from NISO's Altmetrics Initiative, a
> project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The project aims to
> address limitations and gaps that may hinder the adoption of altmetrics, an
> expansion of tools available for measuring scholarly impact of research in
> the knowledge environment. Other working groups participating in the
> project have released drafts on Altmetrics Definitions and Use Cases and a
> Code of Conduct for Provider Data Quality.
> 
> NISO RP-25-201x-2A, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data
> Metrics emphasizes the necessity for data to be citable and its use to be
> measurable. "The Research Data Metrics recommendations are intended to be a
> very practical set of guidelines that can be implemented by repositories
> and data publishers alike in the immediate future," says Mike Taylor of
> Elsevier, co-chair of the Working Group that created the drafts. "The last
> two years have shown a tremendous growth in the interest in data publishing
> and posting," continues Taylor, "and we can all benefit from standards
> about how we define and count a 'download.' I'd like to thank the folk at
> FORCE11 and elsewhere for their continuing drive to implement data
> citation."
> 
> The second two draft documents, NISO RP-25-201x-2B, Persistent Identifiers
> in Scholarly Communications and NISO RP-25-201x-2C, Alternative Outputs in
> Scholarly Communications, are largely comprised of tables that offer
> overviews of important aspects of scientific communication today. "I'm
> hopeful that these two outputs will seed and support conversations around
> these important topics," states Kristi Holmes, of Galter Health Sciences
> Library at Northwestern University and co-chair of the Working Group.
> "Wider use of persistent identifiers and recognition of non-article
> academic outputs are important steps that can further help transform the
> modern scholarly landscape and facilitate broad data interoperability and
> exchange."
> 
> The Persistent Identifiers document recognizes that DOIs are only one type
> of identifier among the many available to researchers today, and describes
> the importance of related efforts in a variety of scholarly domains to
> identify research outputs of various types. The authors encourage those
> community members working to support open science and interoperability to
> use persistent identifiers to measure, evaluate, and report on the
> effectiveness of research infrastructure and communication whenever
> possible.
> 
> NISO RP-25-201x-2C, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communication offers a
> current list of nontraditional research outputs, displaying the rich array
> of scholarly products that are created during the research process. The
> included table provides brief descriptions of the various kinds of
> materials being produced, from new cell lines to W3C standards; notes
> example s of known current efforts and by whom these are being undertaken;
> and offers relevant links.
> 
> "These three documents represent a tremendous amount of effort on the part
> of the Working Group, and we thank them for these valuable contributions,"
> remarks Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. "Commentary
> from the wide spectrum of stakeholders in the area of altmetrics will make
> the documents even stronger, and NISO and the Working Group are hopeful for
> rich input before the material is published in its final form early this
> summer."
> 
> The draft Recommended Practices are open for public comment through June
> 11, 2016. To download the drafts or submit online comments, visit the NISO
> Altmetrics Initiative web page at
> http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/.
> 
> *About NISO*
> NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance
> of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
> effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
> research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
> publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
> learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
> management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
> communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
> standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
> National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
> website <http://www.niso.org/home/>.
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