Vishwas Chavan; Lyubomir Penev

“ In our opinion, mainstreaming of data papers would be a step toward elevating data publishing to the level of scholarly publishing and is expected to lead to a significant increase in the efficiency of biodiversity science. ”

“ We are convinced by Rees' [50] prediction that the data paper genre will prove itself useful and will be expanded and enriched so that it takes on the role of filling all gaps in the data reuse pipeline. Creative Commons recommends [50] that granting agencies and tenure review boards see data paper as a legitimate and obligatory activity and that publishers of data papers should make it obligatory that the data resource itself is archived or published in one or more data repositories or network or information system. ”

“ Peer review of the potential data paper manuscript is expected to evaluate completeness and quality of the metadata. This may include the validity of methods used and standards conformance during the collection, management and curation of data. To meet the reviewers' expectations for accuracy and usefulness, the metadata needs to be as complete and descriptive as possible. ”

“ An early uptake of the data paper mechanism by the data publishers in data-rich and/or biodiversity-rich regions will result in greater uniformity of biodiversity data discovery and accessibility in the near future. ”

“ The format is defined in the Darwin Core text guidelines [55] . Darwin Core is no longer strictly bound to species occurrence data (primary biodiversity data) , and together with the Dublin Core [56] (on which its ideas are based) , it is used by GBIF and others to encode data about organism names, taxonomies, taxon checklists and species information. The DwC-A format is available and can be exported through IPT; it can be saved as a separate data package and could be collated with other data published in the same format. ”

“ ZooKeys working example. ZooKeys. 2009;11:1–8. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.11.210.↑ Sharkey MJ, Yu DS, van Noort S, Seltmann K, Penev L. Revision of the Oriental genera of Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with an emphasis on Thailand including interactive keys to genera published in three different formats. ZooKeys. ”