Open AccessData Citation and Availability: Striking a Balance Between the Ideal and the Practical
Author(s) -
Hapgood Mike,
Knipp Delores J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
space weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.254
H-Index - 56
ISSN - 1542-7390
DOI - 10.1002/2016sw001553
Subject(s) - ideal (ethics) , balance (ability) , space (punctuation) , citation , computer science , data science , sociology , political science , world wide web , law , biology , neuroscience , operating system
This editorial explores some of the challenges that arise when the space weather community seeks to implement AGU data policy. It shows that many important space weather data sets are hard to cite to modern standards and encourages community discussion on how best to strike a balance between the ideals of that data policy and its practical implementation.