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25- Linking, Finding, and Citing Data in Astronomy
25- Linking, Finding, and Citing Data in Astronomy
Pages 161-172
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There are commercial astronomy journals, but most of them are not very important. Basically, the entire system is operated through collaboration between data centers and publishers, where the publishers are the professional societies.
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To an astronomer, "abundance" means the fraction of different elements in a star. It is also called metallicity.
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We are interested in data so we can ask the system to select only papers with links to data from the space telescope; this yields a list of seven papers concerning the metallicity of the galaxy M87 which have links to on-line data in the HST archive. We could just as well have chosen any (or all)
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The first one is from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
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The catalog is quite large, more than 50,000 clusters, with about a hundred measures per cluster. FIGURE 25-5 Cluster Catalog entries form SDSS DR7.
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study ESO Conference Workshop Proceedings, No.
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Will the journals be engaged in the peer review and publishing of such data papers? It is important for scientists to publish and make data available in the open public domain, and therefore I think it is important that the commercial publishing community come forward and introduce such sections in their existing journals and publications.
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PARTICIPANT: There is also a commercial version of that. I think that we need either a strong mandate backed with funding from a government organization or a private business model to make sure that the data curation is done professionally and properly.
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DR. SMITH: Yesterday, someone talked about the importance of data citation to provide credit to researchers and that professional data centers also care about getting that credit.
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So if we are not an actor in this process, whether through discussing data management plans, building repositories, or creating services to help people find and use data, libraries will lose relevance. As for the workplace and the kind of new organization or infrastructure that the libraries will need, I think that the principles are all there but the technology and the packages that are in place need to evolve to meet the requirements of the new tasks.
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DISCUSSION BY WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS 171 DR. WILSON: The one thing that I would add from a data center perspective regarding workforce needs is that we are frequently looking for what Mark Parsons has called the data wrangler, which is somebody who has domain expertise, information science expertise, and understands that what they are going to be doing in ten years, even though it may have nothing to do with what they are doing now.
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