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National Academies Report on Data Attribution and
Citation
I wanted to share the announcement of this recent report from the
National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (which I
currently co-chair) covering data citation and attribution. This
report, based on a workshop held in August 2011 in Berkeley,
California, is particularly useful because it looks at the issues
broadly and analytically, as opposed to simply describing and
advocating for one of the specific solutions that are currently being
advanced.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to transmit to you the final report of a Board on
Research Data and Information project: For
Attribution-Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and
Standards, which explored how to assign credit for data
(attribution) and how to reference data (citation) in ways that others
can identify, discover, and retrieve them. Among the questions
explored were: what approaches are generic across disciplines and what
practices are field-specific; what are the major scientific,
technical, institutional, financial, legal, and socio-cultural issues
that need to be considered; and what are some of the options for the
successful development and implementation of data citation practices
and standards?
Please feel free to pass this information along to others who may
be interested. Questions or comments about the project may be directed
to my attention at puhlir@nas.edu.
Sincerely
yours,
Paul F.
Uhlir
Director
Board on
Research Data and Information
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