Citation++: Data citation, provenance, and documentationNew draft item

The dawning of the digital research age –

computational science, computational social

science, and the digital humanities – brings

with it both enormous potential and challenges.

Visions of interactive publication,

open data, reproducible results, and massive

digital collections are exciting, opening

up new research frontiers and the promise

of more rapid dissemination of and building

upon research ouput. However, to date,

little of this vision has been realized. It remains

challenging to reuse digital artifacts,

precisely identify data used in a publication,

and reproduce the results of published

work. We leverage research in data citation

and provenance collection and maintenance

to prototype and evaluate a provenanceenabled

citation service to facilitate better

access to data sets and reproducibility of research

results.