Monday, September 30, 2013

Out of Cite, Out of Mind

Out of Cite, Out of Mind: The Current State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of Data. Data Science Journal, Volume 12, 13 September 2013. 

The U.S. CODATA and the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) just announced this new report. 

The report discusses the current state of data citation policies and practices, its supporting infrastructure, a set of guiding principles for implementing data citation, challenges to implementation of good data citation practices, and open research questions. 

Authored by the CODATA ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices and edited by Yvonne M. Socha, the report is freely available online.