Alberto Pepe typo  over 10 years ago

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\item provide a data citation for every dataset uploaded. The citation includes a persistent identifier which links to the data, and can be added to the the references sections of any publication.  \end{enumerate}  For the everyday astronomer TheAstroData flips the equation of data sharing in a virtual obsevatory context on its head. It trades interoperability that comes with homogenized data sets for ease of data sharing by astronomers. Search functions focus on descriptive metadata instead of quantified slicing of datasets by physical quantities such as location on the sky. This trade off is not permanent, and we assert that the kinds of data access envisioned by Szalay & Gray for small published datasets can be achieved ex post facto. Our plans are to re-index (or expose the file level metadata related to) shared data files, extracting addtional numerical metadata fields to enable finer grain search. Further, the audience for TheAstroData is completely transparent and focused on indivdiual individual  scientists or projects that have dervied (and often heterogeneous) datasets to share or to publish along side a refereed paper. It is already the case that TheAstroData datasets are linked to literature publication records in two ways. Foremost, we provide primary publication-to-dataset links to the SAO-NASA Astrohpysical Data System \href{http://adsabs.harvard.edu/}{ADS}, which is the universal liteature resource for all of astronomy; an astronomer's TheAstroData datasets appear as "Data Archive" links in the primary publication's ADS record. Second, our records are listed in the \href{http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/dci}{Thomson-Reuters Data Citation Index}, which makes use of the Dataverse Network's OAI-PMH harvesting interface. Our future plans include transmutating the rich DDI metadata standards adopted by the Dataverse Network and enhanced with our astronomy specific extensions means into VO standards and exporting this version to indexing tools such as the VO Registry (or similar data publishing registry). We anticipate that our adoption of the Dataverse Network for TheAstroData has two additional benefits for everyday astronomers: \begin{enumerate}  \item In future iterations of TheAstroData, we plan to reuse the data analysis capabilities of the Dataverse Network software to allow integration of astronomers FITS data with new visualization or analysis tools, for example, GlueViz \url{glueviz.org};