Organizational needs for managing and preserving geospatial data and related electronic records. - Robert R. Downs; Robert S. Chen (Data Sci. J., 2005)

State and Local Government Challenges for Geospatial Data Management and Distribution. - Robert R. Downs; Robert S. Chen (IASSIST Conference, 2006)

Appraisal and Selection of Scientific Data for the Long-Term Archive: A Case Study. - Robert R. Downs; Robert S. Chen; W. Christopher Lenhardt (IASSIST Conference, 2007)

Creative Commons and Data Dissemination at an Academic Data Center: Issues and Potential Benefits. - W. Christopher Lenhardt; Robert S. Chen; Robert R. Downs (IASSIST Conference, 2007)

New Partnerships for Scientific Data Preservation and Publication Systems. - Zhu Zhongming; Xiaoshi Xing; W. Christopher Lenhardt; Robert R. Downs; Robert S. Chen (iPRES, 2007)

The Software Reuse Working Group: A Case Study in Fostering Reuse. - Ryan Gerard; Robert R. Downs; James J. Marshall; Robert E. Wolfe (IRI, 2007)

Implementing a Digital Repository for the Preservation of Interdisciplinary Data. - Robert R. Downs; Robert S. Chen (IASSIST Conference, 2008)

Reuse Readiness Levels as a Measure of Software Reusability. - James J. Marshall; Robert R. Downs (IGARSS (3), 2008)

Reuse of software assets for the NASA Earth science decadal survey missions. - Chris A. Mattmann; Robert R. Downs; James J. Marshall; Neal F. Most; Shahin Samadi (IGARSS, 2010)

Progress towards a NASA earth science Reuse Enablement System (RES). - James J. Marshall; Robert R. Downs; Chris A. Mattmann (IRI, 2010)

A Proposal on Using Reuse Readiness Levels to Measure Software Reusability. - Robert R. Downs; James J. Marshall (Data Sci. J., 2010)

Designing submission and workflow services for preserving interdisciplinary scientific data. - Robert R. Downs; Robert S. Chen (Earth Sci. Informatics, 2010)

Relevance of software reuse in building advanced scientific data processing systems. - James J. Marshall; Robert R. Downs; Shahin Samadi (Earth Sci. Informatics, 2010)

Self-Assessment of a Long-Term Archive for Interdisciplinary Scientific Data as a Trustworthy Digital Repository. - Robert R. Downs; Robert S. Chen (J. Digit. Inf., 2010)

Developing an Online Resource Center about Geospatial Data Preservation. - Robert R. Downs; Robert C. Chen (IASSIST Conference, 2011)

Software reuse methods to improve technological infrastructure for e-Science. - James J. Marshall; Robert R. Downs; Chris A. Mattmann (IRI, 2011)

On the utility of identification schemes for digital earth science data: an assessment and recommendations. - Ruth E. Duerr; Robert R. Downs; Curt Tilmes; Bruce R. Barkstrom; W. Christopher Lenhardt; Joseph Glassy; Luis Bermudez; Peter Slaughter (Earth Sci. Informatics, 2011)

Improving the Trustworthiness of an Interdisciplinary Scientific Data Archive. - Robert R. Downs; Robert S. Chen (IASSIST Conference, 2012)

Developing an open source, reusable platform for distributed collaborative information management in the Early Detection Research Network. - Andrew F. Hart; Rishi Verma; Chris A. Mattmann; Daniel J. Crichton; Sean C. Kelly; Heather Kincaid; J. Steven Hughes; Paul M. Ramirez; Cameron Goodale; Kristen Anton; Maureen Colbert; Robert R. Downs; et al. (IRI, 2012)

Developing an open source strategy for NASA earth science data systems. - Chris A. Mattmann; Robert R. Downs; Paul M. Ramirez; Cameron Goodale; Andrew F. Hart (IRI, 2012)

Understanding Open Source Software at NASA. - Chris Mattmann; Daniel J. Crichton; Andrew F. Hart; Sean C. Kelly; Cameron Goodale; Paul M. Ramirez; Steve Hughes; Robert R. Downs; Frank Lindsay (IT Prof., 2012)

Establishing Trustworthy Repositories of Scientific Data: Opportunities and Benefits. - Robert R. Downs; Ruth E. Duerr; Devan Ray Donaldson; Sarah Ramdeen (iPRES, 2015)

Data Stewardship in the Earth Sciences. - Robert R. Downs; Ruth E. Duerr; Denise J. Hills; Hampapuram K. Ramapriyan (D Lib Mag., 2015)

Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications. - Joan Starr; Eleni Castro; Mercè Crosas; Michel Dumontier; Robert R. Downs; Ruth E. Duerr; Laurel L. Haak; Melissa A. Haendel; Iván Herman; Simon Hodson; Joe Hourclé; John Ernest Kratz; et al. (PeerJ Prepr., 2015)

Changing Data Policies in China: Implications for Enabling FAIR Data. - Lili Zhang 011; Robert R. Downs; Jianhui Li (BigSDM, 2018)

A Discussion of Value Metrics for Data Repositories in Earth and Environmental Sciences. - Cynthia Parr; Corinna Gries; Margaret O'Brien; Robert R. Downs; Ruth E. Duerr; Rebecca Koskela; Philip Tarrant; Keith E. Maull; Nancy Hoebelheinrich; Shelley Stall (Data Sci. J., 2019)

Risk Assessment for Scientific Data. - Matthew S. Mayernik; Kelsey Breseman; Robert R. Downs; Ruth E. Duerr; Alexis Garretson; Chung-Yi Hou (Data Sci. J., 2020)

Consistent evaluation of trustworthiness across guiding principles and standards is crucial to ensure a robust digital repository ecosystem. - David Giaretta; John Garrett; Iolanda Maggio; Mark Conrad; J. Steven Hughes; Terry Longstreth; Roberta Svanetti; Dawei Lin; Robert R. Downs; Felix Engel 002; Matthias L. Hemmje (iPRES, 2021)

Improving Opportunities for New Value of Open Data: Assessing and Certifying Research Data Repositories. - Robert R. Downs (Data Sci. J., 2021)

Versioning Data Is About More than Revisions: A Conceptual Framework and Proposed Principles. - Jens Klump; Lesley Wyborn; Mingfang Wu; Julia Martin; Robert R. Downs; Ari Asmi (Data Sci. J., 2021)

A Review of Open Research Data Policies and Practices in China. - Lili Zhang 011; Robert R. Downs; Jianhui Li; Liangming Wen; Chengzan Li (Data Sci. J., 2021)

Global Community Guidelines for Documenting, Sharing, and Reusing Quality Information of Individual Digital Datasets. - Ge Peng; Carlo Lacagnina; Robert R. Downs; Anette Ganske; Hampapuram K. Ramapriyan; Ivana Ivánová; Lesley Wyborn; Dave Jones; Lucy Bastin; Chung-Lin Shie; David Moroni (Data Sci. J., 2022)

Harvestable Metadata Services Development: Analysis of Use Cases from the World Data System. - Robert R. Downs; Alicia Urquidi Díaz; Qi Xu; Juanle Wang; Aude Chambodot; Chuang Liu; Simon Flower; Karen Payne (Data Sci. J., 2023)

Earth Science Data Repositories: Implementing the CARE Principles. - Margaret O'Brien; Ruth E. Duerr; Riley Taitingfong; Andrew Martinez; Lourdes Vera; Lydia L. Jennings; Robert R. Downs; Erin Antognoli; Talya Ten Brink; Nicole B. Halmai; Dominique David-Chavez; Stephanie Russo Carroll; et al. (Data Sci. J., 2024)

Advancing Global Resilience Through Open Data Resources and Services in Disaster Risk Reduction. - Lili Zhang 011; Jianhui Li; Xueting Li; Fang Lian; Robert R. Downs; Bapon Fakhruddin; Qunli Han (Data Sci. J., 2024)

Harmonizing quality measures of FAIRness assessment towards machine-actionable quality information. - Ge Peng; Gary Berg-Cross; Mingfang Wu; Robert R. Downs; Sudhir Raj Shrestha; Lesley Wyborn; Nancy A. Ritchey; Hampapuram K. Ramapriyan; S. Jeanette Clark; Jenny Wood; Zhong Liu; Abdelhak Marouane (Int. J. Digit. Earth, 2024)