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Why Are the Attribution and Citation of Scientific Data Important?
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... However, over this same period, very few journal editors required data citations, disciplines did not instill data citation as a fundamental practice of good research, granting agencies did not reward the data citations of applicants, tenure and reward committees did not recognize data citations in annual performance reviews, and researchers did not take responsibility for citing data sources. What have we learned from the past?
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... Third, and by no means least, are associated shifts in research policy. Data are now viewed as significant research products in themselves, more than just adjuncts to publications.3 Funding agencies now expect investigators to capture, manage, and share their data.
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... At the local edge of the model are individual practices for managing data and library practices for data stewardship. The global edge represents the inherently international character of scientific scholarship.
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... The list of features below, around which the rest of my presentation is organized, is neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive. Rather, it is a useful starting point to assess how these infrastructure features are applied to data citation and attribution: · Social practice · Usability · Identity · Persistence · Discoverability · Provenance · Relationships · Intellectual property · Policy Social practice Among the drivers for this Workshop are: renewed interest in data citation due to increases in data volume, to advances in technical infrastructure, and to shifts in research policy associated with data.
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... In bibliometric parlance, references are made and citations are received. Even in the bibliographic world, reference/citation formats are many and varied: the American Psychological Association standard is popular in the social sciences, the Modern Language Association standard in the humanities, the Association for Computing Machinery in computer science and engineering, and the Blue Book in law, for example.
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... Library and archival practice tends toward saving forever anything that is worth saving, although both professions also have long histories of weeding collections and of scheduling record disposal. Individual investigators are less likely, and less able, to maintain data permanently for discovery at some unknown later date.
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... Identifying units, relationships among units, and types of relationships are all aspects of data citation and attribution. Intellectual property Intellectual property is a broad topic even if confined to scientific data.
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... 3. What are the major institutional, financial, legal, and socio-cultural issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing scientific data citation standards and practices?


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