10.6084/m9.figshare.3514859.v1
Digital Science
Digital
Science
Simon Porter
Simon
Porter
Digital Science White Paper: A New ‘Research Data Mechanics’
Digital Science
2016
Research metadata
research infrastructure
Research Data Management
Research Data Services
research data management system
research information systems
Information Systems
2016-08-10 08:50:44
Report
https://digitalscience.figshare.com/articles/report/Digital_Science_White_Paper_A_New_Research_Data_Mechanics_/3514859
<p>Research metadata forms the information network that connects researchers, research institutions, funders, publishers, and research service providers together.</p>
<p>How well information flows across this community has direct implications on how well research activity can be supported, and fundamentally how efficiently we can move research forward.</p>
<p>Through highlighting six recent advances in research infrastructure, this whitepaper seeks to recast how we think about metadata - not as a series of static records, but as objects that move between systems and organizations.</p>
<p>By understanding the mechanics of how this occurs, we come closer to understanding our roles in the system, not just as consumers of information, but as research information citizens with responsibilities to the information with which we interact.</p>