In the current era of data-intensive science, it is increasingly important
for researchers to be able to have access to published results, the supporting
data, and the processes used to produce them. Six years ago, recognizing this
need, the American Astronomical Society and the Astrophysics Data Centers
Executive Committee (ADEC) sponsored an effort to facilitate the annotation and
linking of datasets during the publishing process, with limited success. I will
review the status of this effort and describe a new, more general one now being
considered in the context of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, to appear in: Future Professional Communication
in Astronomy II (FPCA-II
