September 2019:  Publications in the Data Science Journal

	Title: Data Sharing at Scale: A Heuristic for Affirming Data Cultures Author: Lindsay Poirier, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-048
	Title: Building Infrastructure for African Human Genomic Data Management Author:Ziyaad Parker , Suresh Maslamoney, Ayton Meintjes, Gerrit Botha, Sumir Panji, Scott Hazelhurst, Nicola Mulder URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-047
	Title: Analysis of Rainfall and Temperature Data Using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition Author: Willard Zvarevashe, Symala Krishnannair, Venkataraman Sivakumar URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-046
	Title: Policy Needs to Go Hand in Hand with Practice: The Learning and Listening Approach to Data Management Author: Maria Cruz, Nicolas Dintzner, Alastair Dunning, Annemiek van der Kuil, Esther Plomp, Marta Teperek, Yasemin Turkyilmaz-van der Velden, Anke Versteeg URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-045
	Title: The Australian Research Data Commons  Author: Michelle Barker, Ross Wilkinson, Andrew Treloar URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-044
	Title: The Impact of Targeted Data Management Training for Field Research Projects – A Case Study Author: Jonathan L. Petters , George C. Brooks, Jennifer A. Smith, Carola A. Haas URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-043

July 2019:  Publications in the Data Science Journal

	Title: Real Estate Evaluation Model Based on Genetic Algorithm Optimized Neural Network Author: Yan Sun URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-036
	Title: Abnormal Pattern Prediction: Detecting Fraudulent Insurance Property Claims with Semi-Supervised Machine-Learning Author: Sebastián M. Palacio URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-035
	Title: A Regional Project in Support of the SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Framework Implementation: Weather and Climate Author: Mary-Jane Morongwa Bopape , Happy Marumo Sithole, Tshiamo Motshegwa, Edward Rakate, Francois Engelbrecht, Emma Archer, Anneline Morgan, Lwando Ndimeni, Joel Botai URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-034
	Title: Designing Transnational Hydroclimatological Observation Networks and Data Sharing Policies in West Africa Author: Seyni Salack , Aymar Bossa, Jan Bliefernicht, Sina Berger, Yacouba Yira, Kamil A. Sanoussi, Samuel Guug, Dominicus Heinzeller, Adolphe S. Avocanh, Barro Hamadou, Symphorien Meda, Belko A. Diallo, Igor B. Bado, Inoussa A. Saley, Elidaa K. Daku, Namo Z. Lawson, Aida Ganaba, Safiétou Sanfo, Koufanou Hien, Arone Aduna, Gero Steup, Bernd Diekkrüger, Moussa Waongo, Antonio Rogmann, Ralf Kunkel, John P. A. Lamers, Mouhamadou B. Sylla, Harald Kunstmann, Boubacar Barry, Laurent G. Sedogo, Christian Jaminon, Paul Vlek, Jimmy Adegoke, Moumini Savadogo URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-033
	Title: An Automated Machine Learning Based Decision Support System to Predict Hotel Booking Cancellations Author: Nuno Antonio, Ana de Almeida, Luis Nunes URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-032
	Title: Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations  Author: Stephanie Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, Andrew Martinez URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-031
	Title: Building Open Access to Research (OAR) Data Infrastructure at NIST Author: Gretchen Greene , Raymond Plante, Robert Hanisch URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-030
	Title: The Landscape of Rights and Licensing Initiatives for Data Sharing Author: Sam Grabus, Jane Greenberg URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-029
	Title: Data Sharing Practices among Researchers at South African Universities Author: Siviwe Bangani, Mathew Moyo URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-028

June 2019:  Publications in the Data Science Journal

	Title: Developing a Model Guidelines Addressing Legal Impediments to Open Access to Publicly Funded Research Data in Malaysia Author: Haswira Nor Mohamad Hashim URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-027
	Title: Proposed Guideline for Minimum Information Stroke Research and Clinical Data Reporting Author:Judit Kumuthini, Lyndon Zass, Melek Chaouch, Michael Thompson, Paul Olowoyo, Mamana Mbiyavanga, Faniyan Moyinoluwalogo, Gordon Wells, Victornia Nembeware, Nicola J. Mulder, Mayowa Owolabi, URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-026
	Title: A Column Styled Composable Schema Matcher for Semantic Data-Types Author:  Xiaofeng Liao, Jordy Bottelier, Zhiming Zhao URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-025
	Title: Importance and Incorporation of User Feedback in Earth Science Data Stewardship Author: Hampapuram Ramapriyan, Jeanne Behnke URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-024
	Title: Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions Author: James L. Savage, Lauren Cadwallader URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-023
	Title: The Definition of Reuse Author: Stephanie van de Sandt, Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Artemis Lavasa, Vivien Petras URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-022
	Title: Geoscientists’ Perspectives on Cyberinfrastructure Needs: A Collection of User Scenarios Author: Karen I. Stocks, Sam Schramski, Arika Virapongse, Lisa Kempler URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-021
	Title: Data Distribution Centre Support for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Author: Martina Stockhause, Martin Juckes, Robert Chen, Wilfran Moufouma Okia, Anna Pirani, Tim Waterfield, Xiaoshi Xing, Rorie Edmunds URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-020

May 2019:  Publications in the Data Science Journal

April 2019:  Publications in the Data Science Journal

Image CC-BY-NC Laura Molloy @LM_HATII from the art intervention series ‘Humans of Data’ http://codata.org/blog/category/humans-of-data/

Mark Parsons joins CODATA as Editor-in-Chief, Data Science Journal

I am honored and excited to take on the role of Editor in Chief for the Data Science Journal.

I have had a bit of history with DSJ. One of my earliest peer-reviewed papers was published with Ruth Duerr in DSJ (Parsons and Duerr 2005). I vividly remember hurrying to make revisions in Costa Rica before heading offline for several weeks. I’d still like to meet one of the reviewers (perhaps I have) who made really helpful comments on how to organize and present the paper to get my points across in a more rigorous and impactful way. I was a data practitioner, not a researcher, and was largely unschooled in formal scientific writing. The guidance was most valuable, and the paper still gets cited now and again.

Years later, I and Peter Fox published what was one one of my most controversial and influential papers (Parsons and Fox 2013). This time, DSJ allowed me to publish after an unconventional public review process involving reams of open review comments from more than two-dozen people.

In short, DSJ has been a catalyst for my career. So I am eager to help foster the journal’s growth and influence and maybe help a few more data scientists along their way.

I am especially interested in helping DSJ build its niche as an influential journal of the ‘science of data’ in the sense that CODATA described it decades ago. We need more fora that encourage dialog across research and practice to understand all the issues around the socio-technical work necessary for data to be findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable, ethical, secure, etc.

I have been a member of the DSJ editorial board since the journal moved to Ubiquity Press, and I have been impressed at how Sarah Callaghan and other editors have worked to increase the journal’s quality. I want to continue this momentum. I want to further bolster the review quality and also raise the possibility of open reviews. The nature of DSJ is that it often attracts submissions and requires reviews from practitioners who have much less of a mandate to publish than researchers. I believe practitioners should be encouraged to contribute (with research as well as practice papers), so we should do what we can to recognize and model excellent contributions in this area.

While improving the content of DSJ, we should also continue to modernize its presentation. We need to actively consider machine-readable papers and content negotiation for both the papers and the metadata. Much like at its founding, DSJ needs to advance the whole concept of scholarly communication.

Thanks to Sarah’s great work, DSJ has a bright future as submissions continue to increase in number and quality. DSJ was ahead of its time when it was founded in the 1990s. I am eager to explore how it can continue to push important conversations forward. I welcome all your ideas. Please tell me what you think. Better yet, tell the community through a submission to DSJ!

Back in early 2015, I was approached at a coffee break at a conference, and invited to take on the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal. This was a little bit of a surprise, I will confess, as my previous academic journal experience had been as an associate editor, along with some projects working on data citation and data publishing. The opportunity was too good to resist, however, and with the support of my employer CEDA  I was very pleased to take on the role.

My tenure as EiC also coincided with the move of the journal to its current platform on Ubiquity Press, and came with it the need to appoint a new editorial board, develop a new scope and guidance, collate a new reviewer database, and the other minutiae of re-launching an academic journal. All these things were achieved with the help of my colleagues in the editorial board and section editors, along with the help and support of the Ubiquity Press staff and the CODATA Executive Committee.

In my four year tenure, I am very proud of the fact that 135 papers have been published, along with 6 Special Collections with another 5 Special Collections in the pipeline. The journal has grown more popular and is steadily publishing research that is more impactful as time goes on [https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=4700152809&tip=sid], and this is a testament to the hard work of all involved – including our reviewers and authors.

It is time for me to hand over the role of EiC to another, and it is with no small amount of sadness that I do so. Being EiC has been incredibly rewarding (and occasionally infuriating) and I have learned a great deal from it. I am very pleased to know that Mark Parsons is taking over the role, and know that the journal will be in safe, knowledgeable hands.

It only remains for me to say my farewells and thank yous. Thank you to the authors, without whom there would be no articles to publish. A thousand thank yous to all my editors, reviewers, colleagues and friends – your efforts on behalf of the journal are deeply, deeply appreciated, as is your wisdom and expertise. I wish you all the very best for the future, and look forward to reading more excellent papers published in the DSJ!

Sarah

February-March 2019:  Publications in the Data Science Journal and new Special Collections

Call for Nominations and Applications: Editor-in-Chief, Data Science Journal, Deadline 14 April

The Data Science Journal is currently accepting nominations and applications to become the Editor-in-Chief of the journal: https://datascience.codata.org/

Applications can be made through the Google form at https://goo.gl/forms/ey60x1N2jO9YM1rY2

The deadline for applications is 12 midnight GMT on Sun 14 April. Read More

Articles are appearing in two new Special Collections in the Data Science Journal.

Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium 2018

This special collection contains selected papers from the Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium 2018: the critical role of university RDM infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge: https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/gottingen-codata-rdm-symposium/

Research Data Alliance Results

This collection contains papers documenting research results and outcomes stemming from the Research Data Alliance (RDA) community and efforts: https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/research-data-alliance-results/

Guest editors:

January Publications in the Data Science Journal and new Special Collections
Articles are appearing in two new Special Collections in the Data Science Journal.

Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium 2018

This special collection contains selected papers from the Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium 2018: the critical role of university RDM infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge: https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/gottingen-codata-rdm-symposium/

Research Data Alliance Results

This collection contains papers documenting research results and outcomes stemming from the Research Data Alliance (RDA) community and efforts: https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/research-data-alliance-results/

Guest editors: