Data Citation: Giving Credit where Credit is Due

An increasing amount of information is being published in structured databases and retrieved using queries, raising the question of how query results should be cited. Since there are a large number of possible queries over a database, one strategy is to specify citations to a small set of frequent queries - citation views - and use these to construct citations to other "general" queries. We present three approaches to implementing citation views and describe alternative policies for the use of citation views. Extensive experiments using both synthetic and realistic citation views and queries show the tradeoffs between the approaches in terms of the time to generate citations and the size of the resulting citation.