Citations are the cornerstone of knowledge propagation and the primary means of
assessing the quality of research, as well as directing investments in science. Science is …

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a community-curated data resource that supports
interdisciplinary global change research by enabling broad-scale studies of taxon and …

Recent policy shifts on the part of funding agencies and journal publishers are causing
changes in the acknowledgment and citation behaviors of scholars. A growing emphasis on …

Data commons collocate data, storage, and computing infrastructure with core services and
commonly used tools and applications for managing, analyzing, and sharing data to create …

International attention to scientific data continues to grow. Opportunities emerge to re-visit
long-standing approaches to managing data and to critically examine new capabilities. We …

Physical samples are foundational entities for research across biological, Earth, and
environmental sciences. Data generated from sample-based analyses are not only the basis …

Research data is changing over time as new records are added, errors are corrected and
obsolete records are deleted from a data set. Scholars rarely use an entire data set or …

Geospatial data provenance records the derivation history of a geospatial data product. It is
important in evaluating the quality of data products. In a Geospatial Web Service …

The advancement of Earth observing sensors, data, and information systems enhances
significantly the capabilities to access and process large volumes of geoscience data, which …

Web-based persistent identifiers have been around for more than 20 years, a period long
enough for us to start observing patterns of success and failure. Persistent identifiers were …