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result of information technology and computational ability moving faster that our
capability for data management and planning.
Taken together these results indicate researchers are willing to use others data
providing they can validate them, but are wary about openly sharing their own. This
need not be seen as a closed relationship. It could well indicate deeper levels of sharing
enablers than simply altruistic motivation, e.g. attribution, provenance and reliability.
Researchers want credit
Even if data can be shared or published there was, as expected, almost universal
recognition that a ‘credit to the data creator’ facility must exist (Graph 10). Good
research practice requires recognition for intellectual contributions and these should
include data. In the same way citation of traditional publications play for recognising
individual intellectual work, a similar convention is required for data though no agreed
convention exists 21,22 .
Do you want to be credited when your underlying digital research data is used by others?
(PARSE.Insight)
No
8%
Yes
92%
Graph 10: Source PARSE.Insight 14 , N=1171
However, when it comes to clear guidelines about how data can be made citable and how
this can be integrated with traditional publications, there are few examples of common
standards or shared good practice. This is supported by the findings in PARSE.Insight,
where the vast majority of researchers understand the benefits of a joined scholarly
communication but were are unaware of publisher policies and these policies (see
Graphs 11 & 12 and Chapter 3).
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Starr,J. Gastl, A (2011) isCitedBy: A Metadata Scheme for DataCite. D-Lib. Volume 17,
Number ½ doi:10.1045/january2011-starr
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Brase, J and Farquhar, A (2011). Access to Research Data . D-Lib. Volume 17, Number ½
doi:10.1045/january2011-brase
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