An adventure in open research data remix, licensing and provenance: case study of the Open Access Article Processing Charges (OA APC) longitudinal study

Abstract

This presentation will focus on analysis of emerging issues in the creation of a remixed dataset derived from diverse sources.The OA APC dataset (Morrison et al, 2017) <<doi:10.5683/SP/KC2NBV>>, includes data hand-­‐created by the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons research team, publisher price lists that are captured through screen scrape or from an excel or PDF list, the DOAJ metadata set, and data contributed by other researchers. The dataset is available as open data, and the documentation has been peer-­‐reviewed and published in a new type of open access journal. Specific issues to be covered include licensing (why a decision was made not to license the data) and the importance of understanding provenance to avoid errors in downstream data research.