DOI:10.60804/AGQD-PF50 We are thrilled to share that Make Data Count has been selected by SCOSS as essential open infrastructure for participation in its next funding cycle.

https://doi.org/10.60804/fkfy-1162  Make Data Count is a community hub for the development of metrics that can help us understand how data is used in research and policy activities. Several Make Data Count community members have given us their insights on the Data Citation Corpus, our project to build a central open aggregate of data citations.

DOI 10.60804/1516-e177 Blog post by Ian Mathews, CEO at Redivis, Zach Chandler, Director of Open Scholarship Strategy at Stanford University, Erin DeLaney, Head of Design at Redivis Analyze data citations for any repository by forking this analytical workflow on Redivis! At Redivis, we believe that data-driven research should be accessible, reproducible, and as open as possible.

https://doi.org/10.60804/DBT4-CZ71 Make Data Count is a community hub for the development of metrics that can help us understand how data is used in research and policy activities. We reached out to Make Data Count community members for their views on data metrics and data evaluation. In this post, we share their perspectives on why understanding the use and reach of open data is important, and on their interest in Make Data Count.

DOI 10.60804/6a1z-rr79 At the recent Make Data Count Summit 2024, we had the opportunity to explore the insights that the Data Citation Corpus provides for institutions and funders. A large-scale open aggregate of data citations, the Data Citation Corpus currently stores 5 million citations collected via persistent identifier metadata and text mining of article content to identify mentions to datasets.

DOI: 10.60804/dqm7-9687 The Make Data Count Summit 2024 took place in London earlier this month. Over two days, we explored what areas of research infrastructure, practices, evidence and evaluation we need to focus on to advance data metrics and our understanding of the reach and impact of open data.

This week we are thrilled to welcome Clare Dean as Communications Consultant for Make Data Count. In this role, Clare will be supporting Make Data Count’s outreach and community engagement activities. Clare brings a wealth of experience working with organizations in scholarly communications and open science initiatives, but best to let her tell you about it. Here’s a brief introduction to Clare, in her own words. Welcome Clare!

Make Data Count is pleased to announce the Make Data Count Summit 2024, a two-day meeting dedicated to responsible data metrics and the evaluation of open data usage and impact.

The COUNTER Code of Practice for Research Data provided a key milestone in data evaluation practices by making it possible to report comparable usage counts across platforms. Over the last months, Make Data Count and COUNTER have collaborated to explore what a suitable direction would be for an update to the Code of Practice for Research Data, and we are now sharing our proposal to merge the Code of Practice for Research Data with COUNTER R5.1 for public consultation.

DOI: 10.60804/QNXH-9H83 Kicking off the year, we had the pleasure of announcing the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. In response to the multiple expressions of interest in learning more about the project and in using the data file for the corpus, we held a webinar dedicated to the Data Citation Corpus.

DOI: 10.60804/GGJX-8650 The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) has as one of its objectives the implementation of open metrics. A consistent approach to data citations is an important step to drive meaningful metrics that provide visibility on data usage, signal the added value of data repositories and enable reporting on...