Title
Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications.
Abstract
Reproducibility and reusability of research results is an important concern in scientific communication and science policy. A foundational element of reproducibility and reusability is the open and persistently available presentation of research data. However, many common approaches for primary data publication in use today do not achieve sufficient long-term robustness, openness, accessibility or uniformity. Nor do they permit comprehensive exploitation by modern Web technologies. This has led to several authoritative studies recommending uniform direct citation of data archived in persistent repositories. Data are to be considered as first-class scholarly objects, and treated similarly in many ways to cited and archived scientific and scholarly literature. Here we briefly review the most current and widely agreed set of principle-based recommendations for scholarly data citation, the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP). We then present a framework for operationalizing the JDDCP; and a set of initial recommendations on identifier schemes, identifier resolution behavior, required metadata elements, and best practices for realizing programmatic machine actionability of cited data. The main target audience for the common implementation guidelines in this article consists of publishers, scholarly organizations, and persistent data repositories, including technical staff members in these organizations. But ordinary researchers can also benefit from these recommendations. The guidance provided here is intended to help achieve widespread, uniform human and machine accessibility of deposited data, in support of significantly improved verification, validation, reproducibility and re-use of scholarly/scientific data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.7717/peerj-cs.1
PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Data citation,Machine accessibility,Data archiving,Data accessibility
Metadata,Persistent data structure,World Wide Web,Science policy,Identifier,Computer science,Citation,Target audience,Scientific communication,Operationalization
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
1
2376-5992
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.08
8
21
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joan Starr1191.08
Eleni Castro2191.41
Mercè Crosas3835.93
Michel Dumontier489893.35
Robert R. Downs57114.01
Ruth E. Duerr69112.97
Laurel L. Haak7505.45
Melissa Haendel848444.07
Ivan Herman9111183.49
Simon Hodson10191.08
Joe Hourclé11191.08
John Ernest Kratz12191.41
Jennifer Lin13191.08
Lars Holm Nielsen14221.90
Amy Nurnberger15191.08
Stefan Pröll16231.81
Andreas Rauber171925216.21
Simone Sacchi181116.45
Arthur P. Smith19221.96
Michael Taylor20201.43
Tim Clark218115.50