Data Citation, Peer Review and Provenance

Tim Finin, 12:02pm 8 February 2011

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In today’s ebiquity meeting, Curt Tilmes showed an interesting figure showing the how often a particular dataset (MODIS snow cover data) was mentioned in a paper vs. how often it was formally cited. It’s a good example of how far we still need to go w.r.t. formally capturing the provenance of data and information derived from it.

The figure is from:

Parsons, Mark A.; Duerr, Ruth; Minster, Jean-Bernard. Data Citation and Peer Review. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 91, Issue 34, p. 297-298. 2010.

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