Data from "Measuring data rot: an analysis of the continued availability of shared data from a single university"

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Data files from the article "Measuring Data Rot: An Analysis of the Continued Availability of Shared Data from a Single University" by Kristin Briney.

This research looked at supplemental data links from publications in CaltechAUTHORS and tested them for their availability on the web using web scraping and hand testing in the Chrome browser.

Data in the tables:

• Table1_ResearchAreas.csv
• Table2_LinkType.csv
• Table3_URLwebsites.csv
• Table4_DOIwebsites.csv
• Table5_UnavailableByType.csv
• Table6_UnavailableURLs.csv
• Table7_UnavailableDOIs.csv

Data in the figures:

• Figure1_LinksByYear.csv
• Figure2_UnavailableByYear.csv

Data from the project:

• DataRot.csv
  • Overall dataset supporting this research, with variables defined in the data dictionary. This data contains all of the links tested, listing results of the webscraping but not results of the hand testing.
• DataRot_dataDictionary.csv
  • Data dictionary defining variable names and values for DataRot.csv
• DataRot_handTested.csv
  • Subset of supplemental data links from DataRot.csv that were hand tested and the results of the hand testing ("browser_test = TRUE" means the data was available, "browser_test = FALSE" means the data was not available, and "browser_test = LOGIN" means the webpage asked for a login to see the data).
• DataRot_missingData.csv
  • Subset of DataRot_handTested.csv with fewer variables. This dataset only includes supplemental data links for data that was not available.

CaltechAUTHORS sampling dataset:

• Sampling.csv
  • Contains comparison between 450 articles recorded in CaltechAUTHORS with what is listed in the articles themselves with respect to shared data and supplementary information.
• Sampling_dataDictionary.txt
  • Data dictionary defining variable names and values for Sampling.csv

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