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most citedThe craft and coordination of data curation: complicating "workflow" views of data science

32 citations · 71 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

DataChat: Prototyping a Conversational Agent for Dataset Search and Visualization

Lizhou Fan, Sara Lafia, Lingyao Li +2

Data users need relevant context and research expertise to effectively search for and identify relevant datasets. Leading data providers, such as the Inter-university Consortium fo…

cs.DL2023★ 6 cited

How and Why do Researchers Reference Data? A Study of Rhetorical Features and Functions of Data References in Academic Articles

Sara Lafia, Andrea Thomer, Elizabeth Moss +2

Data reuse is a common practice in the social sciences. While published data play an essential role in the production of social science research, they are not consistently cited, w…

cs.DL2022★ 3 cited

A Natural Language Processing Pipeline for Detecting Informal Data References in Academic Literature

Sara Lafia, Lizhou Fan, Libby Hemphill

Discovering authoritative links between publications and the datasets that they use can be a labor-intensive process. We introduce a natural language processing pipeline that retri…

cs.DL2022★ 10 cited

Subdivisions and Crossroads: Identifying Hidden Community Structures in a Data Archive's Citation Network

Sara Lafia, Lizhou Fan, Andrea Thomer +1

Data archives are an important source of high quality data in many fields, making them ideal sites to study data reuse. By studying data reuse through citation networks, we are abl…

cs.DL2022★ 4 cited

Librarian-in-the-Loop: A Natural Language Processing Paradigm for Detecting Informal Mentions of Research Data in Academic Literature

Lizhou Fan, Sara Lafia, David Bleckley +3

Data citations provide a foundation for studying research data impact. Collecting and managing data citations is a new frontier in archival science and scholarly communication. How…

cs.DL2022★ 32 cited

The craft and coordination of data curation: complicating "workflow" views of data science

Andrea K. Thomer, Dharma Akmon, Jeremy York +5

Data curation is the process of making a dataset fit-for-use and archiveable. It is critical to data-intensive science because it makes complex data pipelines possible, makes studi…

cs.CL2021★ 14 cited

Leveraging Machine Learning to Detect Data Curation Activities

Sara Lafia, Andrea Thomer, David Bleckley +2

This paper describes a machine learning approach for annotating and analyzing data curation work logs at ICPSR, a large social sciences data archive. The systems we studied track c…