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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Thank you to Iratxe Puebla for her exceptional leadership steering Make Data Count over the last three years. Hear from Iratxe in her farewell blog post as she reflects on the last three years. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

At FORCE2026 Conference in Singapore, Make Data Count Advisors @chodacki.bsky.social and @kristiholmes.bsky.social are looking forward to being part of a panel that takes this challenge of research data as a first-class scholarly output for tracking and reporting head on. tinyurl.com/s22z4jp9

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We’ve now translated the resources from the 'Implementing data evaluation in academia' Working Group to French: Ressources pour l'évaluation des données dans le milieu académique 👉 makedatacount.org/explore-reso...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If you have a case study related to your institution’s incentives for data, or how you’re looking to incorporate data into assessment, please get in touch at info@makedatacount.org. We’d love to you hear from you. 👉 Explore more case studies on our website: makedatacount.org/explore-reso...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We have translated the resources from the ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group to Spanish - Más recursos traducidos al español Explore Spanish-translated resources - makedatacount.org/explore-reso...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In this new post, Make Data Count Advisory Group Member Scott Edmunds @scedmunds.bsky.social shares his thoughts on the need for more quantitative and better evidence on the use and reach of open data to make the case for the outcomes and benefits of Open Science. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We spoke with leaders of DSpace, asking them about their perspectives on the importance of open infrastructure, and milestones for open data and data recognition. #opendata #openscience #openinfrastructure Read the post: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The output describing the Typology of Data Uses developed by the @force11.bsky.social FORCE11 Data Usage Typologies Working Group is now available: zenodo.org/records/1918... More on the blog: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In the second of a series of interviews with leaders from SCOSS-funded open infrastructures, we discuss milestones for open data & how to advance recognition for data outputs. @scossfunding.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @researchdataall.bsky.social 👉 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Which Make Data Count resources are right for you? Fill out our self-assessment questionnaire for your custom recommendations. It takes less than 5 minutes! ⭐ Take the quiz: form.typeform.com/to/t1bXL18l

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

In the first of a series of interviews with leaders from SCOSS-funded open infrastructure organizations, we asked about their perspectives on open infrastructure for open science. @scossfunding.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @researchdataall.bsky.social 👉 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Join Iratxe and other members of the @force11.bsky.social FORCE 11 Data Usage Typology Working Group as they present their work at this @researchdataall.bsky.social RDA webinar on Feb 24, 07:00 UTC. Register: www.rd-alliance.org/events/data-... Working Group information: force11.org/group/data-u...

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RDA Data Usage Typology

A presentation of the data-usage typology developed by the FORCE 11 Data Usage Typologies WG, co-organised by the Evaluation of Research IG and the Uptake of Digital Infrastructure IG, will be held on...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Explore research on data practices and data-usage trends on our 'Resources' page: makedatacount.org/explore-reso...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Consulta recursos traducidos al español en la página web de Make Data Count: makedatacount.org/spanish-tran...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New on the the Make Data Count website, we’ve published a page of resources specifically for repositories and data platforms: makedatacount.org/explore-reso... #repositories #dataplatforms

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New on the blog today, Iratxe provides a roundup of some of our milestones during 2025. We have worked on expanding the data-usage information available to the community and we championed practical ways to bring data into research evaluation. ⭐ Read the blog: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New on the blog! In an interview with Veronique Kiermer @verokiermer.bsky.social, Chief Scientific Officer for @plos.org, she provides insight into their approach to data sharing, visibility and evaluation. 👉 Read the post: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo... #dataevaluation #datasharing

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Make Data Count will be presenting at the SCOSS showcase, join us next Monday to hear about our work during 2025.

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

In their recent post ‘Making Data Count in Academic Evaluation’, John Chodacki and Stephanie Lieggi from the University of California provide a summary of the work by the Implementing Data Evaluation in Academia Working Group. Blog post: tinyurl.com/3c3v74pr Resources: tinyurl.com/38dv7a9n

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Making Data Count in Academic Evaluation - Office of Scholarly Communication

John Chodacki is the Director of the UC Curation Center at California Digital Library, and Stephanie Lieggi is Executive Director of OSPO (the Open Source Program Office) at UC Santa Cruz. Research da...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Read about the resources created by the 'Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group on the blog: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

New resource by the ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group: the Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment (IDEA) Maturity Model, a tool to assist institutions assess their practices & capacity to evaluate data contributions. View the maturity model: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Read the latest case study from the MDC and HELIOS Open ‘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. tinyurl.com/3cscwvdf

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

NEW RESOURCE available from the Make Data Count and HELIOS Open ‘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: tinyurl.com/y77e73n8

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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. 👉 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Read about the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) and its interest in research data tracking in this new interview with Laetitia Bracco @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy. tinyurl.com/2dhtfk83 Register for OSMI’s Plenary meeting for September 29: tinyurl.com/4zpbkhts

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Today on the blog, we interview Elisabeth Shook from @icpsr.bsky.social 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: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Thank you to Vanessa Jorge from Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ, Brazil, for her contribution to the ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. Read ‘Advancing data sharing and evaluation at a research foundation.' tinyurl.com/48vmajmx Resources for institutions: tinyurl.com/38dv7a9n

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We’ve added a new case study from the ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. ‘Practical ways to incorporate data into tenure and promotion’ from Jeffrey Blume, Professor, School of Data Science, University of Virginia. tinyurl.com/td27zb8x Resources: tinyurl.com/38dv7a9n

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Just published on the blog! ‘Advancing Responsible Research Assessment Through Data Evaluation’, cross-posted on the @dorassessment.bsky.social DORA blog. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Today we share case study ‘Initiating cultural change to expand evaluation criteria within institutions’ from Christian Blanco, Deputy Director for International Research, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, from the ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group tinyurl.com/3p3stpfc

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

NEW resources are now available from the Make Data Count and HELIOS Open ‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group. Michael Dougherty's case study: tinyurl.com/576yy4km Patrick Charbonneau’s case study: tinyurl.com/bdudyz57 Resources: makedatacount.org/explore-reso...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Our @kaggle.com 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: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo... Enter the competition: www.kaggle.com/competitions...

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GigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Kristi plugging #datacitation and the related @makedatacount.bsky.social metrics and Kaggle competition. Still time to participate (and win $100K) here www.kaggle.com/competitions... #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

⭐ 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: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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. 👉 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo... ⭐ Enter the competition: www.kaggle.com/competitions...

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DataCite @datacite.org · 12/06/2025

How can we improve the quality of #metadata on a large scale? Read about how we’re advancing technical and community-driven strategies for a richer, more interconnected metadata ecosystem: doi.org/10.5438/bkxd... #OpenScience #PersistentIdentifiers

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Have you read perspective post 'Applying nuance to our understanding of data metrics for evaluation' by Nicolás Robinson-García @nrobinsongarcia.bsky.social? Read his and many other insights from the Make Data Count community on our blog: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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John Chodacki @chodacki.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Excited to share the work of @makedatacount.bsky.social at Open Repositories.

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GigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Help @makedatacount.bsky.social, join the @kaggle.com "Finding Data References" competition, and win fame and fortune (well, a $100,000 USD prize) #DataCitation kaggle.com/competitions...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Launching our @kaggle.com competition “Make Data Count - Finding Data References”. We seek state of the art machine learning models that can identify mentions of data in papers AND contextualize the relationship for the Data Citation Corpus. More: tinyurl.com/4yy2xr2u Enter: tinyurl.com/yjmsaanb

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

⭐ A reminder that we have several interviews published on the blog: lnkd.in/e3wQ6CSS 👉 Read @mikethelwall.bsky.social full interview ‘Perspectives on the importance of best practices to incentivize data sharing and data recognition’: lnkd.in/dTbeQ_qe

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New on the blog today, Marta Teperek and Hans de Jonge explain why NWO has decided to support Make Data Count through SCOSS, in alignment with their investment in promoting FAIR and open data. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New today on the Make Data Count blog: 'Opening Up Translational Science Data Impact Through the Data Citation Corpus' makedatacount.org/read-our-blo... This new article is written by Reese Richardson, Iratxe Puebla, Jason Portenoy, Karen Gutzman and Kristi Holmes.

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We're so grateful to all those who volunteered their time to give us their nuanced perspectives on data evaluation and assessment: makedatacount.org/read-our-blog/ Read Peter Cerda's full interview 'Perspectives on data evaluation and assessment' makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Register for the webinar ‘Embedding Data in Assessment: Progress and Next Steps for the 'Implementing Data Evaluation in Academia' Working Group, a collaboration between HELIOS Open and Make Data Count. 🗓️ When? May 6, 12pm EDT | 9am PDT | 4pm UTC 👉 Registration: lnkd.in/ez8zG-Pe

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

How can academic libraries leverage data citations to understand data usage and impact? Read our latest blog for key insights from our analysis of data citations for Northwestern University and the University of Colorado Boulder. doi.org/10.60804/yxn...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We are delighted to participate in HELIOS Open's next webinar on data evaluation in institutional processes. Join us on May 6 to hear the latest from the Implementing Data Evaluation in Academia Working Group & share feedback to shape its next steps. Register: sparcopen-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Make Data Count will participate in the LIBER-SCOSS webinar next Tuesday April 22. Join us to hear about our work on open infrastructure & standards for data usage, and the insights that academic libraries can gain through open data-usage indicators. Registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Make Data Count @makedatacount.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New on the blog! Insights from Iratxe's conversations with the meta-researchers we've recently featured in interview posts. makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

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