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 Note that we will meet at LASP, 1234 Innovation Drive, http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/.   Please see below for more information regarding our venue, parking, etc.

Dynamic Data Citations: The Current State

Ruth Duerr, The Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarlship

 

 

 

"Sound, reproducible scholarship rests upon a foundation of robust, accessible data.  For this to be so in practice as well as theory, data must be accorded due importance in the practice of scholarship and in the enduring scholarly record.  In other words, data should be considered legitimate, citable products of research.  Data citation, like the citation of other evidence and sources, is good research practice and is part of the scholarly ecosystem supporting data reuse."

Data Citation Synthesis Group: Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles. Martone M. (ed.) San Diego CA: FORCE11; 2014 [https://www.force11.org/datacitation].

 

Citation of research data, i.e., referencing datasets like other sources of information, is becoming the norm.  Government agencies like OSTP, NSF, NASA and NOAA, require data to be fully and openly accessible, and have articulated data citation as a means to acheive open and equal access to data to all interested parties.   In order to link publications with the data that underly them, publishers are requiring manuscript submitters to provide access to the data sets used in their published research.

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