[ecoinfo] Citation norms for datasets

Thu Jul 14 12:19:48 PDT 2011

Kyle,

Thanks for the reply.  I would be interested to know what option you settle
on to get a persistent identifier when you get a chance.  I'm sure others on
the list could offer some input on the strengths and weaknesses of some
common ones as well.

Cheers,
Carl

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Kyle Kwaiser <kkwaiser at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi Carl,
>
> The repository we use is one I have built on Drupal for our field station:
>
> http://umbs.lsa.umich.edu/
>
> Thanks to work done by the LTER, I am able to provide metadata in an EML
> compliant format and, at some point in the future, I will leverage this to
> facilitate data contribution to a third party.  I am aware of several such
> options but have not begun the process of evaluating them.
>
> This means that I cannot offer a formal persistent identifier which is
> hardly ideal and one of the reasons I hesitate to tell students to place
> citations on their CV's.
>
> Best,
>
> Kyle
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com>:
>
>  Kyle,
>>
>> Are your students archiving these in repositories that will issue a doi
>> for
>> the citation information?  (Merritt, Dryad if they correspond to already
>> published work, etc)?
>>
>>
>> Here's a few more refs that have argued for this, some quite extensively.
>>
>> This whole piece is essentially an argument for data citation:
>> ?Mons, B., Haagen, H. van, Chichester, C., Hoen, P.-B. ?T, Dunnen, J. T.
>> den, Ommen, G. van, et al. (2011). The value of data. Nature genetics,
>> 43(4), 281-3. Nature Publishing Group. doi: 10.1038/ng0411-281.
>>
>>
>> Birney, E., Hudson, T. J., Green, E. D., Gunter, C., Eddy, S., Rogers, J.,
>> et al. (2009). Prepublication data sharing. Nature, 461(7261), 168-70.
>> doi:
>> 10.1038/461168a.
>> "another would be to track the usage and citation of data sets using
>> electronic systems similar to those used for traditional publications"
>> ..
>> who cite this in support:
>> Sharing Data from Large-scale Biological Research Projects: A System of
>> Tripartite Responsibility (Wellcome Trust, 2003); available at
>> www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/**groups/corporatesite/@policy_**
>> communications/documents/<http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@policy_communications/documents/>
>> web_document/wtd003207.pdf
>>
>>
>> Tenopir, C., Allard, S., Douglass, K., Aydinoglu, A. U., Wu, L., Read, E.,
>> et al. (2011). Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. (C.
>> Neylon, Ed.)PLoS ONE, 6(6), e21101. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021101.
>>     "Providing a secure but flexible cyberinfrastructure while
>> promulgating
>> best practices such as data citation and metadata reuse, will help build
>> confidence in data sharing"
>>
>>
>> Rod discusses data  citation quite a bit here:
>> ?Page, R. D. M. (2010). Enhanced display of scientific articles using
>> extended metadata. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the
>> World
>> Wide Web, 8(2-3), 190-195. doi: 10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.004.
>>
>>
>> ?Constable, H., Guralnick, R., Wieczorek, J., Spencer, C., & Peterson, a
>> T.
>> (2010). VertNet: a new model for biodiversity data sharing. PLoS biology,
>> 8(2), e1000309. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000309.
>> "By ensuring that data remain curated at the source, and by showing the
>> importance of data sharing to promote data citation and usage, we have
>> grown
>> past our original technology implementation and are ready to move into a
>> long-term production environment that departs from the original model."
>>
>>
>> These three make mention of data citation, mostly in reference to
>> increased
>> citation rates of papers.
>> ?Moore, A. J., McPeek, M. a, Rausher, M. D., Rieseberg, L., & Whitlock, M.
>> C. (2010). The need for archiving data in evolutionary biology. Journal of
>> evolutionary biology, 23(4), 659-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.**
>> 01937.x.
>>
>> Whitlock, M. C., McPeek, M. a, Rausher, M. D., Rieseberg, L., & Moore, A.
>> J..
>> (2010). Data archiving. The American naturalist, 175(2), 145-6. doi:
>> 10.1086/650340.
>>
>> Whitlock, M. C. (2010). Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best
>> practices. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1-5. Elsevier Ltd. doi:
>> 10.1016/j.tree.2010.11.006.
>>
>> Mark Parson's talk: http://ands.org.au/guides/**
>> data-citation-awareness.html<http://ands.org.au/guides/data-citation-awareness.html>
>>
>> -Carl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Cook, Robert B. <cookrb at ornl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>  Kyle,
>>>
>>> At the ORNL DAAC we have been providing recommended citations for our
>>> published data sets since the early 2000s.  These citations are appearing
>>> in
>>> papers that use the data publication.  Citing data products gives the
>>> authors credit for the intellectual effort in generating the data set.
>>>
>>> Please refer to the attached note for additional information.
>>>
>>> When we publish these data products, I send a note to each author
>>> congratulating them on their publication and encouraging them to place
>>> the
>>> citation data pub on their cv.
>>>
>>> Many journals will allow data product citations to appear in the
>>> references
>>> section of papers.
>>>
>>> We are working with the Web of Knowledge to place these data pubs into
>>> their indexing service, so that authors can view both their publications
>>> and
>>> their data products.  Plus they can readily see who has used their data
>>> in
>>> subsequent publications.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
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>>> From: ecoinfo-bounces@**ecoinformatics.org<ecoinfo-bounces at ecoinformatics.org>[mailto:
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>>> On Behalf Of Kyle Kwaiser
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:16 AM
>>> To: ecoinfo at ecoinformatics.org
>>> Subject: [ecoinfo] Citation norms for datasets
>>>
>>> Hello Colleagues,
>>>
>>> I am working with graduate students this summer to archive their work
>>> at our field station.  I want to tell them to cite their datasets on
>>> their CV's but I know this is not yet the norm.
>>>
>>> Any general thoughts on how close we are to including datasets on
>>> CV's?  Can you suggest recent papers that argue (decisively) for this
>>> practice?  Here are two relevant but slightly tangential examples:
>>>
>>> Reichman, O. J., M. B. Jones, and M. P. Schildhauer. 2011. "Challenges
>>> and Opportunities of Open Data in Ecology." Science 331 (6018)
>>> (February): 703-705. doi:10.1126/science.1197962.
>>>
>>> Vision, Todd J. 2010. "Open Data and the Social Contract of Scientific
>>> Publishing." BioScience 60 (5) (May): 330-331.
>>> doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.5.2.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Kyle
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Carl Boettiger
>> UC Davis
>> http://www.carlboettiger.info/
>>
>>
>
>
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UC Davis
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