[LTER-im] Address info in metadata?

[Wade Sheldon]

Hi John,

Interesting posture in this era of transparency (intentional or not). Here in Georgia all that info plus salary and institutional travel history are considered public records, and are queryable on state websites, so I don't see the point of being coy with contact info for data we archive. We haven't made any special effort to suppress or mask contact info either online or in metadata docs. That hasn't been an issue for our investigators so far.

Wade

> On Apr 5, 2017, at 4:40 PM, John Porter <jhp7e at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
> In preparation for a seminar, I was looking at the local UVA library
> data archive (which uses Harvard's "Dataverse" software).  I was struck
> by their strong emphasis on not sharing personally identifiable
> information, which by their standards included full names, phone
> numbers, email addresses etc.. (see
> http://www.library.virginia.edu/libra/datasets/public-dataset-license/
> for the full info) - many of which are included in the "Party" elements
> of EML. 
> 
> The metadata display on PASTA only gives names and possibly a link to
> email, but the full addresses, phone numbers etc. seem often to be
> included in the underlying EML that I have browsed for several sites.....
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has had concerns expressed by researchers or
> institutions regarding what we should, or should not, put in our
> metadata......
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>  -John Porter
> 
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