We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables: OECD White Paper

摘要

On 20th April 2009, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a white paper, "We need publishing standards for datasets and data tables," which examines the problems with current data discoverability and citations and the remedy in creating industry standardsrnfor bibliographic dataset metadata and linking.rnWritten by Toby Green, Head of Publishing at OECD and an expert in data publishing, the paper details the problems with user ability to locate and reference online data. Datasets are a significant part of the scholarly record and being published much more frequently but with widely inconsistent metadata, links and citations.