Abstract
This article presents a practical roadmap for scholarly data repositories to implement data citation in accordance with the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (Data Citation Synthesis Group, 2014), a synopsis and harmonization of the recommendations of major science policy bodies. The roadmap was developed by the Repositories Early Adopters Expert Group, part of the Data Citation Implementation Pilot (DCIP) project (FORCE11, 2015), an initiative of FORCE11.org and the NIH BioCADDIE (2016) program. The roadmap makes 11 specific recommendations, grouped into three phases of implementation: a) required steps needed to support the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles, b) recommended steps that facilitate article/data publication workflows, and c) optional steps that further improve data citation support provided by data repositories.
Published on behalf of the DCIP Repositories Early Adopters Expert Group. A full list of members appears in Appendix A.
Glossary
- Dataset identifier
- The Identifier is a unique string that identifies a resource.
- Title
- A name or title by which a resource is known.
- Creator
- The main researchers involved in producing the data.
- Data repository/Publisher
- The publisher is usually the data repository which hosts and guarantees the persistence of the landing page.
- Publication date
- The year when the data was or will be made publicly available.
- Version
- The version number of the resource.
- Type
- The general type of a resource.
