Integration of Data and Publications - Alliance for Permanent Access

Report on Integration of Data and Publications Grant Agreement no.: 261530
Graph 1 repeated, The Data Publication Pyramid, based on the Jim Gray Pyramid.
We wish to emphasize at this point that this pyramid does not describe which stages of
manifestation research data can go through in their evolution towards reusable data
products. The main purpose of this pyramid is to explain the different manifestations
research data can have in the context of their availability within, with, supplementary to
or referenced from an official scholarly article as the main manifestation of the record of
science.
In Chapter 3 (Integration of Data and Publications), in Chapter 4 (Data Centre and
Library perspective) and Chapter 5 (Next Steps, the Road ahead) this Data Publication
Pyramid is explained further and used to distinguish different best practices as they
currently occur.
In short, we can summarize the benefits of good integration of articles and research data
as follows, along the key issues raised by Andrew Treloar3 and tabulate obstacles and
the solutions provided by integrating Data and Publication (Table 4)
• publications help the data to be better discoverable
• publications help the data to be better interpretable
• publications provide the author better credits for the data
• and reversely: the data add depth to the article and facilitate better
understanding.
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