Mapping the Landscape of Research Data: How JLSC Contributors View this Rapidly Emerging Terrain

Abstract

Pronouncements that research data have arrived as first class objects of scholarly communication are increasingly common, reflecting a growing consensus that the basic building blocks of knowledge (data, software, algorithms, visualizations, and other outputs of the research process) warrant the same degree of attention as the research papers that synthesize and interpret those raw artifacts. In 1997, the US National Research Council advised that " full and open access to scientific data should be adopted as the international norm for the exchange of scientific data derived from research. " 1