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: