However, challenges are emerging. Funders now ask for more detailed information on uptake of their investments (instrumentation, experiments, projects …) which necessitates some sort of user identification/authentication for data access services. Web technologies make it easier to copy/mirror data to multiple sites, but may not include attribution and thus are not ethical. Research workflows are complex using various resources in multiple processing steps making it cumbersome to gather proper attribution for all used data. Many journals set limits on the number of individual citations in papers making it harder to attribute who actually created individual research artefacts.
This session seeks papers from researchers, data scientists, publishers, curators and any users of data and research results that highlight challenges encountered and solutions developed for ensuring access, attribution, identity and ethics through the whole research life-cycle.