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19- Citable Publications of Scientific Data
Pages 125-130

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From page 125...
... This effort then led to a letter in Nature2, which suggested that the scientific community should raise data collections to the status of citable entities in journals. This was followed by an ACM publication in 20023 and several other publications related to scientific data publication in the earth sciences and scalable models of data sharing.
From page 126...
... Let me now talk about the California Coastal Atlas. It is designed for data publication, with a focus on developing methods and training people to do high-quality scientific data production,
From page 127...
... The figure below provides the visual representation of our approach to automate the production of metadata. The intermediate products that are generated automatically include a bibliographic reference file, a metadata interchange file that talks only to OAI- PMH, and then the basic underlying metadata or the data content in the form of what we call an arbitrary digital object.
From page 128...
... that have seen a resurgence in the past five years to produce the content of the Atlas and to ingest the bibliographic reference information using tools like BibTex, so that the data underlying an image, for example, could be directly cited within the context of the document in the California Coastal Atlas. The editorial policy is probably the most confusing part, especially in terms of how it is actually done.
From page 129...
... We define levels of data in the form of state machine transitions, since there are requirements for going from level zero to level one and then to level two. There is always a question of managing derived data, how to combine and track it and that is where DOIs play a powerful role.
From page 130...
... 130 DEVELOPING DATA ATTRIBUTION AND CITATION PRACTICES AND STANDARDS · Corresponding output listing for verification of data contents; · Metadata for obtaining a Digital Object Identifier; · Manifest with summary description (e.g., README) describing what is contained in the arbitrary digital object; and · Licensing statement.


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