International Data Week 2016 SciDataCon 2016
International Data Forum
RDA 8th Plenary
Now Playing:SciDataCon 2016 Breakout Session 4: Data Citation - Past, Present and Future 12 September 2016, 16:00 – 17:30
After decades of discussion about how to attribute responsibility for research data, active work on policy and practice for data citation began about a decade ago. Early efforts attempted to map bibliographic citation mechanisms to data citation. These approaches proved inadequate, due to the vastly different characteristics of publications and data