SciX Data Linking and Indexing part II. Linked data

"Traditionally, scholarly articles were the sole means of exposing scholarly research; however, they just represent one aspect of this research: that of useful outcomes. Everything else that goes into and supports research is important too, especially within the context of preservation, reusability and reproducibility; this context is the purview of the FAIR Principles. Examples of other artifacts include data, software, proposals, and presentations. The overall goal of FAIR is to enhance the sharing, preservation and communication of data-intensive research (like Astronomy, Heliophysics, Earth Science and Space Sciences). In other words, the digital-born, scholarly articles now exist as entities linked to other electronic artifacts; it is up to publishers and discovery platforms, like NASA SciX, to make these linkages possible electronically and discoverable. Perhaps to state the obvious: NASA SciX is a publication-centric discovery platform, so it supports the discovery of research artifacts as they are linked to the scholarly literature. To search directly for specific data or software products a dedicated service will need to be used; the NASA Science Discovery Engine is an example to search for NASA’s science data, documentation, and code...."