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As if by magic… conjuring up missing information

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on November 15, 2024
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

One of the realities of working with data in large quantities and from different systems, as we do at DataSalon, is that it’s often not as complete or as accurate as one might wish. Fortunately […]

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But our data’s kind of messy…

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on February 9, 2024
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

Prospective clients of DataSalon’s MasterVision service are sometimes nervous about the data supply side of the process – in most of the demos we do, somebody will say, ‘This looks great, but our data’s kind […]

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DataSalon’s secret sauce revealed

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on November 11, 2022April 1, 2025
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

Both of DataSalon’s core services, MasterVision and PaperStack, join together data from multiple sources for complete insight into customer activity and the publishing process. The ‘sauce’ that brings together all these ‘ingredients’ and enriches the […]

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Funder Registry essentials

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on October 12, 2022
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

A key element of DataSalon’s PaperStack service is the automatic integration of Funder Registry data, to support understanding of the funding landscape, analysis of funding sources for articles, and the meeting of funder mandates. This […]

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Goodbye GRID, hello ROR

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on October 23, 2021
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

On 16 September, Digital Science released the final public version of their GRID database. After six years of providing the best free reference dataset of organisational identifiers, they have passed the baton to ROR (the […]

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Open data essentials for scholarly publishers

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on July 22, 2021
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

An issue with which every scholarly publisher is familiar is that of uniquely identifying an entity (be that an organisation, an individual or a piece of content) which may be referred to in different ways […]

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DataSalon are ready to ROR!

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on October 14, 2020October 22, 2020
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

Last October, we reviewed the status of the Research Organization Registry (ROR) project to create unique IDs for research organizations worldwide. A year on, ROR is making good progress – the current version of the registry […]

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Enhancing peer review data with industry datasets

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on January 20, 2020
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

One of the key benefits of DataSalon’s new PaperStack service is that the raw data pulled from manuscript submission systems is automatically enhanced with trusted industry resources, placing it in a wider context in order […]

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ROR: a status review

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on October 22, 2019
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

A new player in the world of organisational IDs came into being in January this year: the Research Organization Registry, or ROR. ROR is a project to create unique IDs for research organisations worldwide. It’s […]

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Getting to grips with your data assets

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on November 20, 2018
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

A full understanding of your data assets is important both in underpinning day-to-day operations and in developing business strategy. This applies not only when you’re using external IT systems but also in your internal work […]

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