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H. Frederick DyllaExecutive Director and CEO

American Institute of Physics

The Intersection of ScholarlyThe Intersection of ScholarlyPublications and Data:Publications and Data:

A PublisherA Publisher’’s Views View

The Intersection of ScholarlyThe Intersection of ScholarlyPublications and Data:Publications and Data:

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What is Publishing in the Digital Era?What is Publishing in the Digital Era?

Publishing is the logistical support of information exchange.

Publishing is adding a useful degree of uniformity to information.

Publishing is making order out of chaos.

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A Useful Degree of UniformityA Useful Degree of UniformityPaper Era Challenges and SolutionsQuality of the informationPeer review, editorial selectionHow the article was written and organizedCopy editing; citation standards; author instructions

Digital Era ChallengesUsability of author-supplied electronic componentsFormat validation and conversionSupport for data and other supplemental informationTopic of this conference!

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AAS/AIP Data Accessibility ProjectAAS/AIP Data Accessibility ProjectProject GoalsScience – Make the data underlying figures and tables accessible as digital data objects.Publishing – Develop process for requirements gathering and implementation.

Project AssumptionsWe have to understand how the community works and what will actually provide benefit to reader and authors.Technology alone (standards, formats, metadata, etc.) is necessary but not sufficient.

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AAS/AIP Data Accessibility Project AAS/AIP Data Accessibility Project (continued)

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Uptake and success depends on:

The value proposition to the community, and

Successful communications and education of the community.

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AAS Project ComponentsAAS Project ComponentsCommunity with well established data exchange standards

Including mechanisms for machine-readable tabular data in AAS journals (http://aas.org/journals)

AAS Expectation is to have multiple models for data: Data files with figures/tables Links to externally hosted data

Project Activity Workshop on metadata standards and formats for Astronomy

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AIP Project ComponentsAIP Project ComponentsAIP journals cover a wide variety of areas within Physics (http://journals.aip.org)

Including a data journal: Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data

Project ActivityDevelop process for gathering community requirements and creating implementation plans.

Survey to be developed in collaboration with AIP Statistical Research Center.(www.aip.org/statistics/)

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Survey of Journal Survey of Journal Editors/Reviewers/AuthorsEditors/Reviewers/Authors

What is the relationship of the figures and tables to the data?

What data formats are used? How reusable is typical data? How much would authors be willing to make available? What data is best co-located with the article as

supplemental files? What data would be better served by hosting in

external data centers?

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Contact:H. Frederick Dylla

Executive Director and CEO, AIPOne Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD

+1 301.209.3131; dylla@aip.org

AcknowledgementsAcknowledgementsAcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

Evan Owens, Chief Information Officer, American Institute of Physics

Mark Cassar, Publisher, Journals & Technical Publications, American Institute of Physics

Eefke Smit, Director, Standards and Technology, International Association of STM Publishers