3.1: Standards & Practices
Link archiving, retrieving and citing digital research objects with open data and open-source software publication approaches,
converging on common standards and practices.
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What are the next steps? Efforts at archiving, retrieving and citing digital research objects in standardized ways should
be closely linked with open data and open-source software publication approaches, and should converge on common standards
and practices. Citations to datasets and other digital research objects within publications should be treated on a par with
the current treatment of bibliographic citations. Citations to these in the text should be made with a standard reference
mark (in-text reference pointer) and the full reference should be given in the reference list of the publication, using a
resolvable globally unique identifier (URL, DOI, HDL). Additionally, a formal semantic representation in OWL/RDF of the metadata
describing these research objects, their provenance, their relationships to and citations of one another, etc., would be very
useful and is now achievable. However, improved tools are required to reduce the labour of creating such metadata.
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