CHORUS Forum, “Linking from Datasets to Content,” featured speakers discussing strategies, technologies, and best practices for effectively connecting data to the content it represents.

Referencing a pre-forum poll that collected registrants’ views on the challenges and opportunities of linking datasets to content, moderator Shelley Stall shared some of the most common challenges:

• Simplifying the linking process
• Ensuring robust link maintenance
• Overcoming reticence and lack of awareness
• Addressing cost and logistical efforts
• Social and cultural challenges to uptake and adoption

With regard to opportunities, poll respondents were primarily focused on discoverability and reproducibility — criteria at the very heart of the rationale behind linking datasets and content...."