NSF has issued a report of an international workshop on Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age. The report (found here) acknowledges that "new digital technologies are transforming the practice of science" and discusses the implications for data access, sharing, and reproducibility. Among the recommendations of workshop participants was the creation of a system of "reliable and unique identifiers for individual researchers, organizations, and publications to create linkages between publications and their appropriate data." The purpose of such a system would be to "ensure that data sets are linked to subsequent publications and other research outputs, further aiding attribution and the reproducibility of research," thereby encouraging creators of data sets to share widely and users of those data sets to credit their originators.
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