New Article: “The Scholix Framework for Interoperability in Data-Literature Information Exchange”

The following article appears in a new special issue of D-Lib Magazine dedicated to the first international workshop on Reproducible Open Science (RepScience2016) held in Hanover, Germany last September.
Title
The Scholix Framework for Interoperability in Data-Literature Information Exchange
Authors
Adrian Burton
Australian National Data Service, Melbourne, Australia
Hylke Koers
Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paolo Manghi
Institute of Information Science and Technology — CNR, Pisa, Italy
Markus Stocker
PANGAEA/MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany
Martin Fenner
DataCite, Hannover, Germany
Amir Aryani
Australian National Data Service, Melbourne, Australia
Sandro La Bruzzo
Institute of Information Science and Technology – CNR, Pisa, Italy
Michael Diepenbroek
PANGAEA/MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany
Uwe Schindler
PANGAEA/MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany
Source
D-Lib Magazine
January/February 2017
Volume 23, Number 1/2
Abstract

The Scholix Framework (SCHOlarly LInk eXchange) is a high level interoperability framework for exchanging information about the links between scholarly literature and data, as well as between datasets.
Over the past decade, publishers, data centers, and indexing services have agreed on and implemented numerous bilateral agreements to establish bidirectional links between research data and the scholarly literature. However, because of the considerable differences inherent to these many agreements, there is very limited interoperability between the various solutions. This situation is fueling systemic inefficiencies and limiting the value of these, separated, sets of links.
Scholix, a framework proposed by the RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services working group, envisions a universal interlinking service and proposes the technical guidelines of a multi-hub interoperability framework. Hubs are natural collection and aggregation points for data-literature information from their respective communities. Relevant hubs for the communities of data centers, repositories, and journals include DataCite, OpenAIRE, and Crossref, respectively. The framework respects existing community-specific practices while enabling interoperability among the hubs through a common conceptual model, an information model and open exchange protocols. The proposed framework will make research data, and the related literature, easier to find and easier to interpret and reuse, and will provide additional incentives for researchers to share their data.

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See Also: A New Global Framework For Linking Data And Literature: RDA And ICSU-WDS Announce the Scholix Framework (June 22, 2016)

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