{"id":2585,"date":"2015-06-08T01:44:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2015-06-08T01:44:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:44:16","slug":"how-long-has-this-been-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/data-access\/how-long-has-this-been-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Has This Been Going On?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lots of reading this week including my favorite \u201cUsing photographs to show the effects of climate change on flowering times\u201d1<\/sup>. The photographs in the study were taken from 1900 to 1921 and were used by the authors to show that flowers are blooming earlier in the year. For me it is another factor to consider in understanding impact; if we think of these photographs as open data then they were contributing to science 100 years after collection. What\u2019s a useful timescale for measuring impact?<\/p>\n Other readings as well that give me a number of avenues to follow \u2013 there\u2019s lots of references to the benefits of open data in the literature, and I\u2019ll be seeing which of these we may be able to measure.<\/p>\n I also snuck off to a conference for a day \u2013 the Cultural Heritage Information Management Forum\u00a0June 5, 2015 at Catholic University of America. There was an interesting poster looking at the impact of the Biodiversity Heritage Library collection through citation analysis. I liked the visualization of the subject areas covered, as a measure of the scope and scale of impact. Also there was a presentation by Fenella France from the Library of Congress on a project providing access to scientific data through cultural objects. Interesting to think of the new audiences for the data.<\/p>\n This week is altmetrics, and following up on some of the ideas from the readings.<\/p>\n Lots of reading this week including my favorite \u201cUsing photographs to show the effects of climate change on flowering times\u201d1. The photographs in the study were taken from 1900 to 1921 and were used by the authors to show that flowers are blooming earlier in the year. For me it Continue reading How Long Has This Been Going On?<\/span>\n