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Citability Curation Preservation
Data presented within articles +++ +++ +++
Data in Journal Supplements,
unrestricted ++++ +/- +/-
Data in Journal Supplements, but
restricted ++ ++ +
Data in public archives, linked to
publications ++++ ++++ ++++
Journals storing data +++ +++ +++
Journals making data interactive ++++ +++ ++++
Data Publications ++++ ++++ ++++
Table 7: Rating the different ways to publish research data against the criteria of citability,
curation and preservation.
Curation and preservation of data in journal supplements is not always ensured by
publishers as we see from the PARSE.Insight data and the specific requirements for
specific formats of data, against an ever growing variety of data formats (including
multimedia) asks for better solutions . Public repositories are better placed to deal with
this issue. Bidirectional linking and data publications can ensure better citability of
data. For the citability of data there are two aspects that play a role: the data as such
should be citable (via DOI’s, accession numbers of other persistent identifiers) but in
addition, the people who created or generated the data deserve credit. An increasing
number of data repositories provide citation means for the data itself (including the links
to and from the data), but very few conventions exist for the way the people behind the
data get citation counts and credits for the work. The best way to do that currently is
following the traditional way people are cited, via a publication that describes the data
or has the data included.
3.10. From raw data to processed data to data interpretations.
In 2007 a majority of the larger publishers in the STM arena undersigned the so-called
Brussels declaration which states 50 :
Raw research data should be made freely available to all researchers. Publishers
encourage the public posting of the raw data outputs of research. Sets or sub-sets
of data that are submitted with a paper to a journal should wherever possible be
made freely accessible to other scholars
In this context, it is important to emphasize that the statement concerns raw data, not
processed data, or data presentations or the data-interpretations as presented in a
journal article. Using the Data Publication Pyramid as presented in Chapter 1, the
Brussels statement concerns the public posting of raw data, the base layers of the
pyramid. Preferably this public posting is done in an aggregated way in community
endorsed archives for specific subject fields. It can be expected that many scientific
disciplines will see a growing need to have such common solutions available that allow
50 http://www.stm-assoc.org/brussels-declaration/
Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) –www.ode-project.eu 58