The Data Versioning WG has decided to transition to an Interest Group. The proposed Charter, which underwent community review, can be found here. The final version of the Charter, which was updated after the community review, can be found here.   For more background information on the Data Versioning WG, please refer to the comment by Jens Klump on this page.

  The demand for reproducibility of research results is growing, therefore it will become increasingly important for a researcher to be able to cite the exact version of the data set that was used to underpin their research publication. The capacity of computational hardware infrastructures have grown and this has encouraged the development of concatenated seamless data sets where users can use web services to select subsets based on spatial and time queries. Further, the growth in computer power has meant that higher...