Data Citation Support in
Reference Managers:
Zotero as an Example
Martin Fenner
Technical Lead Article-Level Metrics
Public Library of Science
Open Metrics
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• Policy
• Training
• Data Repositories
• Data Citation
• Indexing and Linking
Moving from citable to cited
Heather Piwowar
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Data Citation Implementation
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The genome of the bacterium
responsible for the severe 2011
outbreak of hemolytic uremic
syndrome in Germany
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AFOB00000000
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gb: AFOB00000000
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AFOB0000000
Markup in PubMed Central
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140518/
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Escherichia coli O104:H4 str. LB226692, whole
genome shotgun sequencing project. 2013 Nov
19 [cited 2015 Jan 11];
Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
nuccore/AFOB00000000.2
Citation using Vancouver Style
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Who
• authoring (the researcher)
• curation (the publisher, data center, indexing
service, …)
How
• discoverable
• low barriers
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Criteria for implementing
Data Citation
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This Workshop
• Endnote
• Papers
• Mendeley
• CiteULike
• Zotero
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Data Citation needs
Reference Manager Support
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Reference Manager Data Citation
support is Many-to-Many Problem
Thousands of data repositories and multiple reference
managers
Possible Solutions
• central data citation index(es)
• common framework for importing dataset metadata
(similar to what Citation-Style Language has done for
formatting citations)
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https://github.com/zotero/translators
An open source framework for
importing references from web pages
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=Escherichia+coli+O104%3AH4
Extract references from
search results
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APA Style
Escherichia coli O104:H4 str. LB226692, whole genome
shotgun sequencing project. (2013). (Version 2).
Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/
AFOB00000000.2
Pitfalls/Questions
• dumbing down the metadata back into text
• separate reference list section for data citations?
• indexing services not picking up data citations
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Problem solved once dataset
is in the reference manager?
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