A Korean-British research team led by Professor Youngim Jung (KISTI, University of Science and Technology, Seoul) has secured seed funding of the value of KW50m (£31,321) from the Korean National Institute for Science and Technology (NST) for a collaborative project on the topic of “Research Data Peer Review and Tracking Impact of Research Data”.
A three-strong British team associated with the Journal of Open Humanities Data including Dr Barbara McGillivray (KCL), Dr Marton Ribary (RHUL) and Dr Mandy Wigdorowitz (Cambridge) joined colleagues from KISTI to address the challenges and opportunities in data peer review and to design the workflow of data peer review with multiple user type involvement.
Continuing their recently published research in Publications 10 (2022): 39, the British team will contribute to the project by (a) gathering and analyse performance data of datasets on the three major data repositories of Zenodo, Figshare, and Dataverse, (b) contributing to the methodological design for identifying links between datasets, data papers and research papers, and developing text mining approaches to partially automate this linking, and (c) running two case studies of publishing datasets and data papers related to law and socio-legal studies and linguistic studies which are known to follow traditional dissemination routes. By reaching out to journals and publishers in these fields, these case studies aim to understand what these fields do to open up data-driven research and what reservations, if any, scholars in these fields have against such an approach.
Results of the Korean-British collaboration are planned to be presented at the annual International Data Week of the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA), World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) which takes place in Salzburg, Austria between 23-26 October 2023.
