Thursday, January 31, 2013

Data Citation Practices

Just released by the National Academies of Science -- proceedings of an international workshop on data citation practices:

For Attribution - Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: Summary of an International Workshop

"Data citation standards and good practices can form the basis for increased incentives, recognition, and rewards for scientific data activities that in many cases are currently lacking in many fields of research. The rapidly-expanding universe of online digital data holds the promise of allowing peer-examination and review of conclusions or analysis based on experimental or observational data, the integration of data into new forms of scholarly publishing, and the ability for subsequent users to make new and unforeseen uses and analyses of the same data – either in isolation, or in combination with other datasets."


PDF summary:  http://www.nap.edu/nap-cgi/report.cgi?record_id=13564&type=pdfxsum