<div dir="ltr"><div><b>Reminder that our VWC is this today!</b></div><div><br></div><div>
<div>Monday
December 16th
at 12 pm PDT / 3 pm EDT<br><br>Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: <a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/419931872" target="_blank">https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/419931872</a><br><br>Or Telephone:<br>Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):<br>US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833<br>Meeting ID: 419 931 872<br><br><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>December VWC - Dataset Attribution</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Part 1: <b>Organizations in attribution<br></b><br>Driving questions: Should organizations appear in dataset citations? What rules should EDI follow for display of organizations?<br><br>ESIP
guidelines state that a particular group or small organization may
sometimes be the author of a dataset. EML best practices v3 state that
the creator list should include the organization using
<organizationName>, or the current principal investigator using
<postitionName>. <br><br>Using <organizationName> impacts how the citation is auto-generated on the LTER Data Portal:<br><br>If the creator list only includes organizations, then the organizations show up in the citation.<br><br>If the creator list includes an organization and a person, **only the person shows up in the citation**.<br><br>Some
LTER sites get around this by using <individualName> instead of
<organizationName> for the organization, i.e., they treat their
site as a person.<br><br>If EDI changes their practice to include
organizations in citations which also include individuals, then this
will after a great many datasets in EDI. IMs may want to revise their
EML if they had provided their organization as both organizations and
individuals.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>Part 2:<b> Attributing long-term datasets</b><br><br>Driving
questions: Should the citation for a long-term dataset include the
ever-growing list of PIs associated with the dataset, or just the
organization name? What about the potentially monstrous list of
associated parties? Who goes in that list? How could one supply
information on when a given party was involved with the dataset (e.g.,
as a CSV table), and should that temporal information be in the
metadata?<br><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Suggested reading material prior to the VWC<br></b><br>Best
Practices for Dataset Metadata in Ecological Metadata Language (EML
Best Practices V3). 2017. Environmental Data Initiative. <a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/emlbestpractices-v3.pdf" target="_blank">https://environmentaldatainitiative.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/emlbestpractices-v3.pdf</a><br><br>ESIP
Data Preservation and Stewardship Committee. 2019. Data Citation
Guidelines for Earth Science Data. Ver. 2. Earth Science Information
Partners. <a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8441816" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8441816</a>. <div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU"><div id="gmail-:1o4" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 12:44 PM Jason Downing <<a href="mailto:jpdowning@alaska.edu">jpdowning@alaska.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings IMC,</div><div><br></div><div>For the month of December we will once again be postponing our monthly VWC by one week so as not to conflict with AGU. Therefore we will look forward to seeing you all on Monday December 16th at our regular time and channel. Below the connection details is an overview of our topic and links to background material.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Monday
December 16th
at 12 pm PDT / 3 pm EDT<br><br>Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: <a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/419931872" target="_blank">https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/419931872</a><br><br>Or Telephone:<br>Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):<br>US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833<br>Meeting ID: 419 931 872<br><br><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>December VWC - Dataset Attribution</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>Part 1: <b>Organizations in attribution<br></b><br>Driving questions: Should organizations appear in dataset citations? What rules should EDI follow for display of organizations?<br><br>ESIP guidelines state that a particular group or small organization may sometimes be the author of a dataset. EML best practices v3 state that the creator list should include the organization using <organizationName>, or the current principal investigator using <postitionName>. <br><br>Using <organizationName> impacts how the citation is auto-generated on the LTER Data Portal:<br><br>If the creator list only includes organizations, then the organizations show up in the citation.<br><br>If the creator list includes an organization and a person, **only the person shows up in the citation**.<br><br>Some LTER sites get around this by using <individualName> instead of <organizationName> for the organization, i.e., they treat their site as a person.<br><br>If EDI changes their practice to include organizations in citations which also include individuals, then this will after a great many datasets in EDI. IMs may want to revise their EML if they had provided their organization as both organizations and individuals.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>Part 2:<b> Attributing long-term datasets</b><br><br>Driving questions: Should the citation for a long-term dataset include the ever-growing list of PIs associated with the dataset, or just the organization name? What about the potentially monstrous list of associated parties? Who goes in that list? How could one supply information on when a given party was involved with the dataset (e.g., as a CSV table), and should that temporal information be in the metadata?<br><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Suggested reading material prior to the VWC<br></b><br>Best Practices for Dataset Metadata in Ecological Metadata Language (EML Best Practices V3). 2017. Environmental Data Initiative. <a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/emlbestpractices-v3.pdf" target="_blank">https://environmentaldatainitiative.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/emlbestpractices-v3.pdf</a><br><br>ESIP Data Preservation and Stewardship Committee. 2019. Data Citation Guidelines for Earth Science Data. Ver. 2. Earth Science Information Partners. <a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8441816" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8441816</a>. <br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jason Downing<br>Bonanza Creek LTER Information Manager<br>Institute of Arctic Biology<br>University of Alaska Fairbanks<br><br><span><span><a href="mailto:jpdowning@alaska.edu" target="_blank">jpdowning@alaska.edu</a></span></span><br>907.474.6364 (Office)<br>907.474.6251 (Fax)</div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jason Downing<br>Bonanza Creek LTER Information Manager<br>Institute of Arctic Biology<br>University of Alaska Fairbanks<br><br><span><span><a href="mailto:jpdowning@alaska.edu" target="_blank">jpdowning@alaska.edu</a></span></span><br>907.474.6364 (Office)<br>907.474.6251 (Fax)</div></div>