OA Week: Digital Badges on Open Data

This post is part of a series published over the course of OAWeek 2019. Today's post will preview a series of digital badges related to Data Reuse. These badges were designed in conjunction with the new Data Reuse Initiative.

Overview of Data Reusability I. Click to enlarge.

The first digital badge (Data Reusability I) provides the learner with some practical skills in data sharing. The practical examples are mostly biology-oriented, but is useful for learners from a wide range of fields. Activities include work with a selected article from the journal Genome Biology, posting a sample data set to Figshare, and working with data sets published on the Dryad repository. While these activities provide just a taste of the work involved in sharing data, it nonetheless imparts some key skills in interacting with and publishing data in an open fashion. 

Overview of Data Reusability II. Click to enlarge.

The second digital badge (Data Reusability II) provides a tutorial that reviews public data sharing competencies in more depth. For this set of exercises, we have used the Mozilla Data Sharing Planning Template as a model for best practices community standards. Earners of this badge will develop competencies in metadata creation, data cleaning/processing, documenting data set provenance, assigning credit for the published work, and enabling easy and reproducible reuse of the data set. Check them out!