“Why Linked Data is Not Enough for Scientists” is an excellent article dealing with the very real and very complicated factors, over and above access, that impact data reuse.
“Abstract—Scienti?c data stands to represent a signi?cant portion of the linked open data cloud and science itself stands to bene?t from the data fusion capability that this will afford. However, simply publishing linked data into the cloud does not necessarily meet the requirements of reuse. Publishing has requirements of provenance, quality, credit, attribution, methods in order to provide the reproducibility that allows validation of results. In this paper we make the case for a scienti?c data publication model on top of linked data and introduce the notion of Research Objects as ?rst class citizens for sharing and publishing.”
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2010-09-30