Figure 2: Data citation resolution structure (ideal workflow).

Articles (1) link to datasets in appropriate repositories, on which their conclusions are based, through citation to a dataset (a), whose unique persistent identifier (PID) resolves (b) to a landing page (2) in a well-supported data repository. The data landing page contains human- and machine-readable metadata, to support search and to resolve (c) back to the citing article, and (d) a link to the data itself (3).