[Rdap] data repository assistance please

Koshoffer, Amy (koshofae) KOSHOFAE at ucmail.uc.edu
Thu Apr 27 17:27:03 EDT 2017


Hi Joe,

Thank you for sharing this information

Amy

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> On Apr 27, 2017, at 4:03 PM, Joe Hourcle <oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov> wrote:
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> 
> 
>> On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, Koshoffer, Amy (koshofae) wrote:
>> 
>> The researcher could publish a metadata only record in their institutional repository that allows interested parties to find out about the existence of the data and contact information without sharing it.  Not quite the same as truly sharing.
> 
> This is one of the situations why the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles is worded how it is:
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>    5. Access
> 
>    Data citations should facilitate access to the data themselves and
>    to such associated metadata, documentation, code, and other
>    materials, as are necessary for both humans and machines to make
>    informed use of the referenced data.
> 
> Many of the others wanted a link that went straight to the data, but a few of us pushed for a link to a landing page ... in part so you could acknowledge or advertise data that can't be 100% open access for legal or IRB issues.
> 
> (or because the data's been deleted / replaced ... but also so people didn't waste bandwidth when they download terabytes of data that they can't actually make use of)
> 
> -Joe
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