[Esip-preserve] Citations - and Identifiers

[Alice Barkstrom]

It would probably be highly beneficial to have some examples of
how versions appear in the collection structure and how the identifiers
would deal with cases of the type Curt has identified in which there
are updates to single files in a time series that are associated with
such things as replaced raw data.

Bruce B.

At 06:52 PM 4/14/2010, Ruth Duerr wrote:
>Actually these descriptions correspond pretty well to the 
>descriptions of research, resource, and reference collections  in 
>the report NSB (National Science Board). 2005. Long-Lived Digital 
>Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st 
>Century. Washington, DC: National Science Foundation. 87 pp. despite 
>the factor that you are talking about production approaches and they 
>are talking about types of data.
>
>Ruth
>
>On Apr 14, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Alice Barkstrom wrote:
>
> > It may be useful to deal with a simple separation of approaches to
> > production that incorporates the size of the groups involved:
> >
> > 1.  Single author production and publication - classic 
> sociological scenario
> > that has supported a great deal of previous work
> >
> > Scenario: author collects measurements, analyzes the data, and writes
> > up a summary paper; data may be preserved on paper, or in electronic
> > files; peer-review accomplished by submission of paper to journal, with
> > a moderate number (three to five) of referees; data publication 
> would involve
> > having paper or electronic copies of data accepted by a library 
> or data center
> >
> > 2.  Working group production and publication - field experiment 
> (of a variety
> > of different kinds) would be a typical example
> >
> > Scenario: group sets up equipment, with single person in charge of each
> > instrument that will collect data, management of WG done by one or two
> > people (PI); data from individual instruments combined and intercompared
> > within the group; data preserved in electronic files - which may 
> be distributed
> > amongst the WG; each instrument's scientist writes up a paper on his or her
> > data; peer-review accomplished by submission of papers to a journal special
> > issue and perhaps a special editor who selects a fair number of referees;
> > data publication requires formal accession planning by a data center owing
> > to the volume of data and the cost of curation
> >
> > 3.  Large-scale production and publication - "Big Science" owing 
> to the size
> > of the effort involved
> >
> > Scenario: instrument and producer teams selected by large scale proposal
> > effort - may involve one hundred to two hundred people over a 
> decade; long time
> > period (5 years is typical) of preparation before data collection 
> begins, including
> > design of production system and data production software; 
> substantial pre-collection
> > peer-review, including ATBDs and related algorithm outlines, as 
> well as such documentation
> > as coordinate transformations, data formats, calibration plans 
> and procedures, etc.;
> > production highly rigid, with extensive planning and scheduling; 
> periodic (two to three
> > times per year) science team reviews of progress - stretching out 
> over a decade or
> > more; multiple publications, both jointly as a team and as 
> individual contributions to
> > journals; multiple calibration and validation exercises in 
> support of establishing bounds
> > on uncertainties; peer-review may involve intercomparisons with 
> competing instruments
> > or data sources; data publication requires resources for 
> large-scale, special purpose
> > data centers owing to cost of computing resources, storage 
> resources, and curation
> > over long periods.
> >
> > These could be neatened up - and perhaps enumerated.  We really 
> need samples of
> > each different kind of scenario and group interaction.  Is it 
> worth writing these thoughts up into
> > a format that can go into the wiki?
> >
> > Bruce B.
> >
> >
> > At 04:06 PM 4/14/2010, Mark A. Parsons wrote:
> >> After hearing today's discussion, I thought it might be useful 
> for everyone to see the essay that Ruth and I wrote on citations.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> -m.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 14 Apr 2010, at 9:38 AM, Ruth Duerr wrote:
> >>
> >> > Wednesday March 10, 1 pm MST (3 pm EST)
> >> > Telephone: 877-326-0011
> >> > Meeting #: *4917475*
> >> > Agenda:
> >> >
> >> > - Identifiers paper status
> >> > - Identifiers testbed report
> >> > - Status of report on AGU townhall
> >> > - Provenance paper status
> >> > - Data management recommendations status
> >> > - Summer ESIP meeting plans
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