[okfn-discuss] "We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables"

[Rufus Pollock]

2009/4/21 Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org>:
> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2009/04/20/oecd-we-need-publishing-standards-for-datasets-and-data-tables/
>
> "OECD has released We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables.

Very interesting. Better citation systems for datasets are essential
to getting more open data in academia and will be really important to
allowing a more effective specialization of effort.

I remember coming across a while back an essay dealing with a similar
issue in D-Lib magazine ("A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly
Citation of Quantitative Data"):

<http://dlib.org/dlib/march07/altman/03altman.html>

Rufus