Revealing the Impact of Research Data: The Experience from Data Organizations and Initiatives

This panel brings together practitioners who will present strategies for evidencing, promoting, and understanding the impact of research data. Speakers will address unique challenges and solutions in their domain, offering a view of current practices and future directions.

Finn Dymond-Green, representing the UK Data Service, will discuss the organization’s role as a nationally funded infrastructure connecting data producers with researchers and analysts. Finn will discuss their approaches and channels for evidencing and promoting the impact of data, creating a narrative which builds on and extends beyond data citation.

Diana L. Magnuson will present the work of the IPUMS Bibliography team in managing a growing bibliographic database. The challenge for the IPUMS Bibliography team: develop an efficient and effective workflow for managing the expanding bibliographic database and provide a usable web interface for internal and external users to discover and access publications using IPUMS data.

Iratxe Puebla from Make Data Count will discuss their work to promote the development of data metrics to enable evaluation of data usage. She will share updates from projects to scale the data usage information available to the community, and to enhance the context of usage measures. This includes the Data Citation Corpus as a central open aggregate for all data citations, as well as a community-led effort to develop a typology of data usage types.

Elisabeth Shook and Elizabeth Moss will discuss ICPSR’s work in linking research data with scholarly literature through the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature. They will explore the necessity of human curation, the limitations of persistent identifiers in capturing nuanced data use, and the challenges of integrating meaningful linkages within automated systems.

Attendees will understand efforts to improve discoverability and impact of research data in an evolving digital environment and gain actionable insights to implement in their own institutions.