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Announcing the launch of our Kaggle competition “Make Data Count - Finding Data References”. To enhance the data citations in the Make Data Count Data Citation Corpus, our Kaggle competition seeks state of the art machine learning models (including LLMs) that can both identify mentions of data in papers AND contextualize the relationship.
Total Prizes:
$100,000
Learn more: tinyurl.com/4yy2xr2u
Enter: tinyurl.com/yjmsaanb
Read the latest case study from the Make Data Count and @heliosopen@bird.makeup ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. Denise Scholtens shares her experience with valuable controlled-access datasets, and tracking usage and institutional recognition of data contributions.
https://tinyurl.com/3cscwvdf
We’ve added a new case study from the Make Data Count and @heliosopen@bird.makeup ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group to our resources for institutions page.
Today we feature ‘Practical ways to incorporate data into tenure and promotion’ from Jeffrey Blume, Professor, School of Data Science, University of Virginia.
👉 Read Jeffrey’s case study: tinyurl.com/td27zb8x
⭐ View our new resources for institutions page: https://tinyurl.com/38dv7a9n
Have you read perspective post 'Applying nuance to our understanding of data metrics for evaluation' by Nicolás Robinson-García?
Read his and many other insights from the Make Data Count community on our blog: https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/applying-nuance-to-our-understanding-of-data-metrics-for-evaluation/
The ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group has now published the Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment (IDEA) Maturity Model - a tool to assist research institutions assess their current practices and capacity for evaluating research data contributions.
Download the maturity model: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17432837
Read more about all the resources from the Working Group on the blog: https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/implementing-data-evaluation-a-resource-toolkit-for-institutions/
Today on the blog, we feature Matilda, a bibliographic platform built specifically for open science. We spoke with project lead Didier Torny about the project, and their plans to incorporate links to datasets for the articles they index in Matilda.
Thank you to Vanessa Jorge from Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ, Brazil, for her contribution to the ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group with @heliosopen@bird.makeup Read ‘Advancing data sharing and evaluation at a research foundation.' https://tinyurl.com/48vmajmx
Resources for institutions: https://tinyurl.com/38dv7a9n
We’re delighted to share more resources from the Make Data Count and @heliosopen@bird.makeup ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group.
Today we include a new case study ‘Initiating cultural change to expand evaluation criteria within institutions’ from Christian Blanco, Deputy Director for International Research, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
👉 Read Christian’s case study: https://makedatacount.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WG-Case-Study-Christian-Blanco.pdf
⭐ View our new resources for institutions page: https://makedatacount.org/explore-resources/institutions/
In the second of a series of interviews with leaders from @SCOSSfunding@mastodon.social open infrastructures, we discuss with Dryad, RDA and LA Referencia milestones for open data, and how to advance recognition for data as an important scholarly output.
👉 Read the post: https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/community-perspectives-on-open-data/
Thanks to @scedmunds@genomic.social for contributing this post on Make Data Count. It provides a nice overview of recent projects looking at the effects of open science, and why understanding the reach of open data & open science matters.
NEW RESOURCE available from the Make Data Count and @heliosopen@bird.makeup ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. This implementation guide provides practical guidance for integrating data and other open outputs in institutional review processes.
Download the guide: https://tinyurl.com/y77e73n8
Read about the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) @osmi@mastodon.social and its interest in research data tracking in this new interview with Laetitia Bracco. She shares the latest on OSMI’s activities, and discusses their alignment with Make Data Count in relation to data monitoring and data evaluation.
👉 Read the blog post: https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/advancing-research-data-tracking-with-the-open-science-monitoring-initiative/
⭐ You can also register for OSMI’s Plenary meeting for September 29 here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dxiVpsO7Q3az1TXxW-GqqQ#/registration
Today on the blog, we interview Elisabeth Shook from ICPSR about their collaboration with Make Data Count to include citations for social science datasets identified and curated by ICPSR in the Data Citation Corpus.
👉 Read the post: https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/icpsr-and-make-data-count-collaborate-to-elevate-the-impact-of-data-in-the-social-sciences/
Just published on the blog! ‘Advancing Responsible Research Assessment Through Data Evaluation’, cross-posted on the DORA blog.
Read about Make Data Count's approach to responsible metrics and how it aligns with DORA’s, our work on the building blocks for robust and responsible data evaluation, and the steps we’re taking to advance data evaluation in practice.
https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/advancing-responsible-research-assessment/
NEW resources are now available from the Make Data Count and @heliosopen ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group.
We’ve published the Working Group’s first case studies.
Michael Dougherty's case study: tinyurl.com/576yy4km
Patrick Charbonneau’s case study: tinyurl.com/bdudyz57
Resources: https://makedatacount.org/explore-resources/institutions/
Our Kaggle competition “Make Data Count - Finding Data References” has attracted a lot of interest and participants. The competition closes on September 2, don’t miss the chance to take part!
Read more: https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/announcing-make-data-counts-kaggle-competition/
Enter the competition: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/make-data-count-finding-data-references
⭐ Our latest release for the Data Citation Corpus is just out, including new data citations from @europepmc.org, and additions to the affiliation #metadata for some of the citation records.
👉 Find out more on the blog: https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/corpus-europe-pmc/
Catch up on perspectives from the Make Data Count community, including Kai Li's article: 'Perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for large-scale analyses on data use and data citations' on our blog.
Reminder that our @kaggle.com competition - “Make Data Count - Finding Data References” - is open!
We are seeing a great level of interest with many participants and over 3k entries so far!
👉 Learn more: https://makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/announcing-make-data-counts-kaggle-competition/
⭐ Enter the competition: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/make-data-count-finding-data-references