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Invitation to participate in the NDS Universally Accessible Data Publications Pilot project
Interested in Data Reuse? Making a broad range of published data accessible across the ecosystem of tools and services is integral to the NDS Vision, yet today there is no standard way to retrieve data, or even full data descriptions given a data publication's persistent identifier.
The Universally Accessible Data Publications pilot project, open to all members of the NDS community, intends to take a key step forward in realizing this vision: agreeing on a standard mechanism(s) for any application or service to access the full set of data and metadata comprising a data publication, regardless of the identifier type and the source of the publication.
Today, knowing the persistent identifier of a dataset – from a catalog or citation in a paper – does little to help you do anything beyond manually downloading it to your local machine. How one navigates from an identifier to find descriptive information and a downloadable will usually get you to a web page, but what you find there, and how you navigate from there to download data object(s) is , are completely idiosyncratic. While this can make . Further, there may or may not be a way for programs to retrieve the data. While this makes it challenging for a human to manually bring together data from multiple sources, the situation is worse for any application or service, where the lack of standards just to identify metadata and data access links means custom code is required for any automation.
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