SHARE’s data set of research and scholarly activities throughout their lifecycle is free, openly licensed, and built with open source technology developed at the Center for Open Science (COS). Launched in beta in April 2015 the data set has grown to over 4 million records and 80+ providers, including CrossRef, PubMedCentral, DataOne, library institutional repositories and more. This infrastructure will contribute to a “network of knowledge” that links research objects (e.g., workflows, publications, funding information, data sets) that will enable better stewardship of this work, verification of claims, meta-scholarship, and the discoverability and reuse of these research objects.
SHARE is committed to openness, transparency, inclusive collaboration, and international interoperability. To make the most use of the data SHARE is aggregating, community involvement and contribution is essential to enhance the highly variable metadata associated with scholarly and research activity, to link objects together as part of the same activity, and in the process to promote innovative scholarship and a range of outputs beyond traditional publications.
Join us for curate-a-thon that will give participants the opportunity to directly contribute to enriching the SHARE dataset and implement many of the metadata priorities discussed in the first half of the day. Participants will learn how to access data using API’s, integrate information and datasets using IPython/Jupyter and other tools, and create links between related digital objects.