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The Make Data Count Summit 2024 took place in London earlier this month. Over two days, we explored what areas of research infrastructure, practices, evidence and evaluation we need to focus on to advance data metrics and our understanding of the reach and impact of open data. Each session covered...

This week we are thrilled to welcome Clare Dean as Communications Consultant for Make Data Count. In this role, Clare will be supporting Make Data Count’s outreach and community engagement activities. Clare brings a wealth of experience working with organizations in scholarly communications and open science initiatives, but best to let her tell you about it. Here’s a brief introduction to Clare, in her own words. Welcome Clare!

The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) has as one of its objectives the implementation of open metrics. A consistent approach to data citations is an important step to drive meaningful metrics that provide visibility on data usage, signal the added value of data repositories and enable reporting on the reach...

First-of-its-kind aggregation brings together millions of data citations to advance understanding of data usage

Make Data Count (MDC) is convening a two-day summit dedicated to the evaluation of open data usage, reach, and impact.  Our inaugural Make Data Count Summit, taking place in Washington, DC, on September 12 and 13, will bring together representatives of the research community, government data administrators, funders, policymakers, publishers,...

Join us for a 3-part series on key issues and opportunities for the community to prioritize on our journey to open data metrics. Watch the recordings of FORAGE, EXPLORE, and BEGIN!

By Kathleen Gregory and Anton Ninkov Data citations hold great promise for a variety of stakeholders. Unfortunately, due in part to a lack of metadata, i.e. about disciplinary domains, many of those promises remain out of reach. Metadata providers – repositories, publishers and researchers – play a key role in...

Daniella Lowenberg, Rachael Lammey, Matthew B. Jones, John Chodacki, Martin Fenner DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4701079  In the last decade, attitudes towards open data publishing have continued to shift, including a rising interest in data citation as well as incorporating open data in research assessment (see Parsons et al. for an overview). This...

Since 2014, the Make Data Count (MDC) initiative has focused on building the social and technical infrastructure for the development of research data metrics. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the initiative has transformed from a research project with...

The Make Data Count team has been working on various infrastructure and outreach projects focused on how to measure the reach and impact of research data. While busy driving adoption of these frameworks and services, we have yet to discuss where we’re at in terms of high-level challenges and where...

Following advice from our workshop attendees at RDA13, we invite you to join us for our spring webinar. Join us on May 8th at 8am PST/3pm GMT as we demo our new aggregation services at DataCite and DataONE. This webinar is intended to spotlight the features and services we can...

    Join us on March 26th at 8:00am PST/4:00pm GMT for a webinar on repository implementation of our COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data and Make Data Count recommendations. This webinar will feature a panel of developers from repositories that have implemented or about to release standardized data...