Hi all - we are planning to send ANDS a more formal interim report about our project towards the end of January but I just thought that I would let you know what we've been up to so far.

The project team consists of:

Natasha Simons - Natasha is focusing on DOI minting and maintenance infrastructure, as well as policy frameworks
Stacey Lee - Stacey is focusing on bibliometrics and altmetrics
me - I'm focusing on communications, advocacy and culture change aspects.

We've each been focusing on different things as noted above but a summary of the work of the team so far is:

Professional development

Attended data citation related presentations at the eResearch Conference
Attended ANDS data citation webinars as well as the Data Citation Index webinar run by Thompson Reuters

Bibliometrics and altmetrics

Established the annual cost for a Griffith institutional licence for the Data Citation Index
Agreed with Thompson Reuters to have a 1-month trial of the Data Citation Index in 2013
Investigated ORCID ID self-registration process (required for ImpactStory)
Fed back to ANDS the requirement for investigating a national approach to licensing for the Data Citation Index

Advocacy and culture change

Ran an information session for subject librarians about data citation
Sought volunteer subject librarians - 4 librarians (about a third of the staff from this team) have volunteered to be involved
Met with 2 of the volunteer librarians to seek background information about citation patterns and impact motivations in their disciplines (creative arts and humanities, and health)
Started investigating barriers such as the low visibility of data citation within common style guides, institutional training programs on referencing and bibliographic referencing tools

Communications and knowledge sharing

Contributed to the catch-up meeting at the eResearch Conference in November
Contributed to the ANDS Data Citation Summit in December
Established a project blog - 3 posts have been added so far and there have been 237 pageviews

Tasks that we have identified for completion in 2013 include:

Complete policy document and associated guidelines available for relevant staff
Investigate any legacy collections in the repositories feeding DCI
Ensure DOI infrastructure is included in roadmaps for research data self-submission (RDSS) and repositories projects
Share PHP script for minting DOIs
Evaluate TERN form for DOI maintenance
Develop targeted comms for data collection owners
Develop methodologies for bibliometrics (including tool selection)
Use ImpactStory to produce reports on selected data collection owners
Trial bibliometrics methods to produce reports on selected data collection owners
Evaluate altmetrics methods trialled
Evaluate formal bibliometrics methods trialled
Watching brief on Scopus developments
Contribute to ANDS clinics
Contribute to eResearch Australasia 2013

This is turning out to be a surprisingly complex area to be investigating, so there should be some good findings to report back to the ANDS community in 2013.

All the best
Sam