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Developing data standards on Version Control System platforms like GitHub enables collaboration and transparency.• Many standards do not use tools for collaboration: issue tracking, licensing, and automated website hosting (GitBook or GitHub Pages).• We make recommendations and provide templates for creating descriptive versioncontrolled data standard documentation on GitHub.
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