[open-science] Force11 Data Citation Synthesis Group: Draft Declaration of Data Citation Principles

Mon Nov 25 21:57:56 UTC 2013

Since I am on both the FORCE11 group and its precursor, the CODATA TG on data citation, I heartily approve this message. Please comment profusely on the draft.

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Puneet Kishor
Science and Data Policy, Creative Commons

On Nov 25, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Jenny Molloy <jenny.molloy at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi All
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> Apologies to those who are already on force11 and data publication mailing lists, but I thought I would flag the publication of these principles to anyone on this list who isn't and encourage you to comment on them.
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> We frequently cite a lack of incentive and formal credit for publishing datasets as a reason why data publication doesn't happen often enough, so it seems this in an important discussion to be having as a community of data producers, consumer and re-users.
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> Jenny
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: CODATA ED <execdir at codata.org>
> Date: Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM
> Subject: Data Citation Synthesis Group: Draft Declaration of Data Citation Principles
> To: DATA-PUBLICATION at jiscmail.ac.uk
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> The Data Citation Synthesis Group http://www.force11.org/node/4381 has released a draft Declaration of Data Citation Principles http://www.force11.org/datacitation and invites comment.
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> Although this has been announced already here, I wanted to make three further points:
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> 1) This has been a very interesting and positive collaborative process and has involved a number of groups and committed individuals. Encouraging the practice of data citation, it seems to me, is one of the key steps towards giving research data its proper place in the literature.
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> As the preamble to the draft principles states:
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> Sound, reproducible scholarship rests upon a foundation of robust, accessible data. For this to be so in practice as well as theory, data must be accorded due importance in the practice of scholarship and in the enduring scholarly record. In other words, data should be considered legitimate, citable products of research. Data citation, like the citation of other evidence and sources, is good research practice.
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> In support of this assertion, and to encourage good practice, we offer a set of guiding principles for data citation.
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> 2) Please do comment on these principles. We hope that with community feedback and support, a finalised set of principles can be widely endorsed and adopted.
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> Discussion on a variety of lists is welcome, of course. However, if you want the Synthesis Group to take full account of your views, please be sure to post your comments on the discussion forum http://www.force11.org/datacitation.
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> 3) I wanted to add here some notes and observations on the genesis of these principles, which I have done on the CODATA blog: http://codata.org/blog/2013/11/25/data-citation-synthesis-group-draft-declaration-of-data-citation-principles/ - I hope this background may be of interest.
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> Best wishes,
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> Simon.