Public Access to Research Results: Data Accessibility in Physics and Astronomy

提出建议的专业学术组织，美国天文学会和美国物理研究所，将开展一个试点项目，提供数字数据集，这些数据集是它们在天文学和等离子物理学方面出版的三种期刊中的数字和表格的基础。该项目将涉及制定方法，以确定和获取这些数字数据，以及提供对已出版文献中实际数据对象的访问。提议者将㈠对作者进行调查，以确定他们是否愿意分享数据，是否有兴趣重新使用其他研究人员可能发表的数据; ㈡召集专家利益攸关方，举办关于元数据语义、数字结构和格式以及数据同行审查做法的重点讲习班; ㈢制定和完善获取、验证、交付、维护和管理数据的出版制作方法;提高科学家对共享数据的好处和前景的认识。将通过提交数据集供出版和参与期刊读者使用这些数据集的量化指标对试点进行部分评估，并将通过多个论坛向学术出版和研究界传播成果。

The proposing professional scholarly organizations, the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics, will conduct a pilot project to deliver the digital data sets that underlie figures and tables in three of the journals that they publish in astronomy and plasma physics. The project will involve developing methods for identifying and acquiring those digital data, as well as for providing access to the actual data objects in the published literature. The proposers will (i) conduct surveys of authors to determine their willingness to share data and their interest in re-using data that other researchers might publish; (ii) convene expert stakeholders for focused workshops on metadata semantics, digital structures and formats, and on practices for peer review of data; (iii) develop and refine publishing production methods to acquire, validate, deliver, maintain, and curate data; and (iv) raise the awareness of scientists about the merits of and prospects for sharing data. The pilot will be assessed in part by quantitative metrics on the submission of data sets for publication and the use of these data sets by readers of the participating journals, and the outcomes will be disseminated through multiple forums to the scholarly publishing and research communities.