The UK Data Service already has experience of data papers through acting as host repository for Springer Natures Scientific Data and offering peer review of data for the journal via our self-deposit system, Reshare. Through our research data management training and advice on transparency in research, we also highlight the value of the data paper, showing how it features as a valuable connector and contextual bridge between the grant details, the formalised and succinct data description via a data repository, and substantive publications.
Doorn and Corti comment that their experience with romania rcs data commissioning, editing and publishing the data papers has been an interesting time: at times challenging but also rewarding. Corti notes “our two first authors worked closely with us to establish how best to write and present a data paper, what should be featured and what images could be used to bring the text and the data to life. I want to thank Simon Parker and Deb Wiltshire of the UK Data Service with their help on this aspect; and some of our staff who took the time to comment on the first draft.“ Our two recent authors provided us with some feedback on their experiences.
Dr Edzia Carvalho, one of the investigators on the Qualitative Election Study of Great Britain (QESB) and Lecturer in Politics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Dundee, reflects that, “Our experience of writing for the Research Data Journal gave us insight into two aspects of sharing data: how to make focus group data interesting and how to make them accessible. In response to the first question, we decided on using the handwritten response sheets by participants as data artefacts. Doodles, exclamation marks, scribbles, and other ways used by our participants to express their emotion on paper made their responses visually interesting.