The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship

Working Group: Data usage typologies

Data usage typologies

In the evaluation of the use of shared data, a question that often arises is the context for the use of the data. The community wants to understand if the dataset is being used in the context of data-sharing as part of the original research (i.e. the authors mention a dataset they have created and shared) or whether the data is being used in new research endeavors (i.e. reused by other researchers, or by the same researchers for a new research project)

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