Investigations as Research Objects Within Facilities Science

Abstract

We consider the notion of data publication in the context of large-scale scientific facilities. Dataset publication allows access to and citation of data, but do not provide sufficient context. We propose instead to publish an investigation, a more complete record of the experiment, including details of the context and parameters of the experiment. We relate this investigation to the emerging concept of a research object, and consider how investigation research objects can be constructed to support the more complete publication of facilities science. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.