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Editorial
. 2014 Apr 24;10(4):e1003542.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003542. eCollection 2014 Apr.

Ten simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data

Alyssa Goodman  1 , Alberto Pepe  1 , Alexander W Blocker  1 , Christine L Borgman  2 , Kyle Cranmer  3 , Merce Crosas  1 , Rosanne Di Stefano  1 , Yolanda Gil  4 , Paul Groth  5 , Margaret Hedstrom  6 , David W Hogg  3 , Vinay Kashyap  1 , Ashish Mahabal  7 , Aneta Siemiginowska  1 , Aleksandra Slavkovic  8
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Ten simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data

Alyssa Goodman et al. PLoS Comput Biol. .
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Figure 1. Two pages (scan) from Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (“The Starry Messenger” or “The Herald of the Stars”), Venice, 1610.
On these pages, Galilei combines data (drawings of Jupiter and its moons), key metadata (timing of each observation, weather, and telescope properties), and text (descriptions of methods, analysis, and conclusions).
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