Why data citation is a computational problem

"Why data citation is a computational problem" - proposes generating data citations via database queries.

Abstract

Most information is now published in complex, structured, evolving

datasets or databases. There is increasing demand that this digital infor-

mation should be treated in the same way as conventional publications

and be appropriately cited. While principles and standards have been

developed for data citation, they are unlikely to be used unless we can

couple the process of extracting information with that of providing a ci-

tation for it. We discuss how to generate citations automatically for data

in a database given how the data was obtained { the query { as well as

the content { the data. We show how the problem of generating a citation

is related to a well-understood problem in databases and describe this in

two examples with radically dierent citation requirements.

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NASA opens earth science data, cloud computing to the public as part of new contest

SUMMARY:

NASA is launching a new challenge, hosted on Amazon Web Services, that gives the public access to a trove of earth sciences data and computational resources in the name of discovering new uses for all that information.

NASA launched a new contest Tuesday for imagining and then building new uses for the space agency’s trove of earth sciences data. The challenge — actually two of them, broken down into the imagination and building stages — kicks off on July 1 and runs through Nov. 15, and utilizes the NASA Open Earth Exchange platform. The exchange’s datasets and informational material, as well as the computing resources for the challenge, are hosted on Amazon Web Services.

http://gigaom.com/2014/06/24/nasa-opens-earth-science-data-cloud-computing-to-the-public-as-part-of-new-contest/