The document discusses the need for an ecosystem to better manage research data through its entire lifecycle, from creation to publication to sharing and reuse. It proposes that libraries can play a key role in this ecosystem by providing services like curation repositories, identifiers, metadata, and tools to help researchers publish, share, and get credit for their data. The goal is to improve data discovery, access, attribution, and incentivize data sharing to make research data as integral to the scholarly record as journal articles.