Abstract:The sharing and re-use of data has become a cornerstone of modern science. Multiple platforms now allow quick and easy data sharing. So far, however, data publishing models have not accommodated on-going scientific improvements in data: for many problems, datasets continue to grow with time -more records are added, errors fixed, and new data structures are created. In other words, datasets, like scientific knowledge, advance with time. We therefore suggest that many datasets would be usefully published as a se… Show more
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