Reference: 10 Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data

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1. Love your data, and help others love it too.
2. Share your data online, with a permanent identifier.
3. Conduct science with a particular level of reuse in mind.
4. Publish workflow as context.
5. Link your data to your publications as often as possible.
6. Publish your code (even the small bits).
7. Say how you want to get credit.
8. Foster and use data repositories.
9. Reward colleagues who share their data properly.
10. Be a booster for data science.

— Source (with more details for each of the rules): https://www.authorea.com/users/3/articles/3410/ (Or: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003542)