The academic community needs better curation and authorship standards for data, according to a committee of the US National Academies. In For Attribution -Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards, published on 19 November, the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) presents views from experts in data curation across all scientific disciplines. It says that scientific data - such as measurements and images - should be made available for scrutiny online or through an archive or repository, and that researchers should be given full credit for their efforts in creating those data. The report notes that some scientific associations, including the American Geophysical Union, endorse giving the same importance to the publication of scientific data as to the publication of papers.
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