Best Practices for Data Publication

https://doi.org/10.26132/NED7
https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/10.26132/NED7

10.26132/NED7

IPAC

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)

Best Practices for Data Publication

This article presents an overview of best practices for publishing data in astronomy and astrophysics journals. These recommendations are intended as a reference for authors to help prepare and publish data in a way that will better represent and support science results, enable better data sharing, improve reproducibility, and enhance the reusability of data. Observance of these guidelines will also help to streamline the extraction, preservation, integration and cross-linking of valuable data from astrophysics literature into major astronomical databases, and consequently facilitate new modes of science discovery that will better exploit the vast quantities of panchromatic and multidimensional data associated with the literature. It encourages authors, journal editors, referees, and publishers to implement the best practices reviewed here, as well as related recommendations from international astronomical organizations such as the International Astronomical Union for publication of nomenclature, data, and metadata.

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https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/BPDP/NED_BPDP.pdf