Partnerships: PLOS, CDL, and DataONE Launch Pilot Project to Develop Data-Level Metrics

From a PLOS Blog Post by Jennifer Lin:

In partnership with the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library, and DataONE, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new project to develop data-level metrics. This project is funded by an EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation.
The project, titled “Making Data Count: Developing a Data Metrics Pilot”, will result in a suite of metrics that track and measure data use.
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The Data-Level Metrics (DLM) pilot will build from the successful open source Article-Level Metrics community project, Lagotto, originally started by PLOS in 2009. ALM provide a view into the activity surrounding an article after publication, across a broad spectrum of ways in which research is disseminated and used (e.g., viewed, shared, discussed, cited, and recommended, etc.)

More information about the project can be found in this project summary (15 pages; PDF).

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