Treating data like software: A case for production quality data

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 153-156

  Schopf, Jennifer M ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

best practices; cyclical development and release; production data

Indexed keywords

BEST PRACTICES; BUG FIXES; CITATION INFORMATION; CYCLICAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELEASE; DATA CURATION; PRODUCTION DATA; PRODUCTION QUALITY; PRODUCTION SOFTWARE; VERSIONING;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 84863552499     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2232817.2232846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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