Spatial Discovery and the Research Library
Sara Lafia | UCSB Geography
Linking researcher publications and datasets
Dr. Ben Halpern
sea basscounts
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Dr. Ben Halpern
Dr. Anabel Ford
sea basscounts
excavationsites
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Dr. Ben Halpern
Dr. Anabel Ford
Dr. Tom Patterson
sea basscounts
excavationsites
contested borders
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Institutional Databases
Bridging Domains
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Domain RepositoriesInstitutional Databases
Bridging Domains
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The 1990s...
A Spatial Legacy
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today...
A Spatial Legacy
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Publications Datasets
research objects
Current Challenge
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Metadatasemantic spatial
Publications Datasets
linked and georeferenced research objects
Current Challenge
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+ stable links for research objects
+ location‐based discovery
+ cross‐disciplinary data sharing
the reinventedlibrary
A Research Nexus
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+ stable links for research objects
+ location‐based discovery
+ cross‐disciplinary data sharing
the reinventedlibrary
A Research Nexus
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+ stable links for research objects
+ location‐based discovery
+ cross‐disciplinary data sharing
the reinventedlibrary
A Research Nexus
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competency questions
+ Which datasets are referenced by
a particular publication?
+ Which publications reference a
particular dataset?
+ Which datasets overlap spatially?
Handling Queries
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competency questions
+ Which datasets are referenced by
a particular publication?
+ Which publications reference a
particular dataset?
+ Which datasets overlap spatially?
Handling Queries
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competency questions
+ Which datasets are referenced by
a particular publication?
+ Which publications reference a
particular dataset?
+ Which datasets overlap spatially?
Handling Queries
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Researcher Place Domain Dataset Location Publication Repository
Guatemala, Belize, Mexico
archaeology Archaeological Sites
UCSB OpenData
Assessing the Situation at El Pilar
UCSB eScholarship
global ecology
Science of Marine Reserves: Meta-analysis: Global synthesis
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis
UCSB UC-eLinks via WorldCat
global political science
World Boundaries of Disputed Areas
EarthWorks Natural Earth SearchWorks
Research Datasets and Publications
Dr. Anabel Ford
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Researcher Place Domain Dataset Location Publication Repository
Guatemala, Belize, Mexico
archaeology Archaeological Sites
UCSB OpenData
Assessing the Situation at El Pilar
UCSB eScholarship
global ecology
Science of Marine Reserves: Meta-analysis: Global synthesis
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis
UCSB UC-eLinks via WorldCat
global political science
World Boundaries of Disputed Areas
EarthWorks Natural Earth SearchWorks
Research Datasets and Publications
Dr. Anabel Ford
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Dr. Ben Halpern
Researcher Place Domain Dataset Location Publication Repository
Guatemala, Belize, Mexico
archaeology Archaeological Sites
UCSB OpenData
Assessing the Situation at El Pilar
UCSB eScholarship
global ecology
Science of Marine Reserves: Meta-analysis: Global synthesis
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis
UCSB UC-eLinks via WorldCat
global political science
World Boundaries of Disputed Areas
EarthWorks Natural Earth SearchWorks
Research Datasets and Publications
Dr. Anabel Ford
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Dr. Ben Halpern
Dr. Tom Patterson
publication
Science of Marine Reserves: Meta‐analysis: Global synthesis
Data Model
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publication
datasetDC: references
knb Cumulative human impacts: Supplementary data
Science of Marine Reserves: Meta‐analysis: Global synthesis
Data Model
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publication
datasetDC: references
knb Cumulative human impacts: Supplementary data
DC: isReferencedBy
Science of Marine Reserves: Meta‐analysis: Global synthesis
Data Model
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Data hosting: research data are published and identified by URIs
URIs: retrieved for corresponding publications from repositories
Vocabularies: OpenRefine with RDF extension generates a graph
Implementation: Publication‐data relationships serialized as triples
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Method
associated datasets
Data hosting: research data are published and identified by URIs
URIs: retrieved for corresponding publications from repositories
Vocabularies: OpenRefine with RDF extension generates a graph
Implementation: Publication‐data relationships serialized as triples
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Method
associated datasets
internal repository
external repositories
Data hosting: research data are published and identified by URIs
URIs: retrieved for corresponding publications from repositories
Vocabularies: OpenRefine with RDF extension generates a graph
Implementation: Publication‐data relationships serialized as triples
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publication
dataset
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Method
Data hosting: research data are published and identified by URIs
URIs: retrieved for corresponding publications from repositories
Vocabularies: OpenRefine with RDF extension generates a graph
Implementation: Publication‐data relationships serialized as triples
DC: references
DC: isReferencedBy
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publication
dataset
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Method
SELECT ?data ?publication ?name ?label
WHERE {?publication a dcterms:BibliographicResource ...
University of California, Santa Barbara | Open Data
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+ Which publications reference a particular dataset?
Implementation
SELECT ?data ?publication ?name ?label
WHERE { ...?data dcterms:isReferencedBy ?publication ...
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+ Which datasets are referenced by a particular publication?
Implementation
SELECT ?data ?publication ?name ?label
WHERE { ...FILTER (?name, “Ford”) }
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+ Which datasets overlap spatially?
Implementation
+ Who referenced my dataset? my publication? my spatial extent?
+ How often? In what context? In what domain?
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Next Steps
+ Who referenced my dataset? my publication? my spatial extent?
+ How often? In what context? In what domain?
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Next Steps
Dr. Ben Halpern
Dr. Anabel Ford
Dr. Tom Patterson
sea basscounts
excavationsites
contested borders
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Special thanks to: Jon Jablonski, Werner Kuhn, Savannah Cooley, and F. Antonio Medrano
http://discovery.ucsb.opendata.arcgis.com/
Linking researcher publications and datasets
UCSB’s Open Data instance: