Data Pub | Thoughts on Data Publication

"If you read last week’s post on the IDCC meeting in Amsterdam, you may know that today’s post was inspired by a post-conference workshop on Data Publication, sponsored by the PREPARDE group. The workshop was 'Data publishing, peer review and repository accreditation: everyone a winner?' (to access the workshop agenda, goals, and slides, go to the conference workshop website and scroll down to Workshop 6). Basically the workshop focused on all things data publication, and incited lively discussion among those in attendance. Check out the workshop’s Twitter backchannel via this Storify by Sarah Callaghan of STFC.  My previous blog post about data publication sums it up like this: The concept of data publication is rather simple in theory: rather than relying on journal articles alone for scholarly communication, let’s publish data sets as 'first class citizens'.  Data sets have inherent value that makes them standalone scholarly objects— they are more likely to be discovered by researchers in other domains and working on other questions if they are not associated with a specific journal and all of the baggage that entails. Stealing shamelessly from Sarah’s presentation, I’m providing a brief overview of issues surrounding data publication for those not well-versed