KBase Credit Metadata Schema

As part of KBase’s commitment to promote open science, we offer users the ability to obtain a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for their work, which can then be cited in an associated science publication. To further support the community-wide shift towards FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data, KBase is expanding our data descriptors so that KBase DOIs have comprehensive citations for datasets, in addition to referencing publications or software used in the workflow. This helps encourage a culture of giving attribution for all research inputs and outputs; standard practice for literature, but still relatively new for software products or datasets. It also promotes open science by building trust that contributors get credit for their work, and accelerates knowledge discovery by supporting and incentivizing the release of data.

作为KBase推动开放科学的承诺之一，本平台为用户提供为其研究成果获取数字对象标识符（Digital Object Identifier，DOI）的功能，该标识符可在相关学术出版物中被引用。为进一步推动全社区向FAIR（可发现、可访问、可互操作、可复用）数据标准转型，KBase正在扩展其数据描述体系，使得KBase生成的数字对象标识符除了可引用工作流中使用的出版物或软件外，还能为数据集提供完整的引用信息。此举有助于营造对所有研究输入与输出成果标注来源的文化氛围——这在学术文献领域已是通用规范，但在软件产品或数据集领域仍属较新的实践。同时，通过确保贡献者的工作得到认可以建立信任，它进一步推动了开放科学的发展；并通过支持和激励数据发布，加快了知识发现的进程。