Data publication

A data publication is an entity of data with detailed metadata/description and a bibliographic citation. Data publications have the status published & citable.

Data publications are NOT peer-reviewed; the scientific quality of the content is in the sole responsibility of the author(s). A data publication may consist of one data set or a collection of data sets (childs), grouped through a parent.

Data set
A data set can be published as a self-standing publication (with no link to a paper publication) or as an independent supplement to a paper publication.

Collections
Several data sets (or even collections) can be grouped into data collections. See the overview of collection types and their typical uses below.

Examples:
 * geological map:
 * collection of bug data: