[Esip-preserve] ESIP Citation Guidelines

[Raskin, Rob (388M)]

Mark-

The only formal ESIP process is to bring the suggested recommendation to the ESIP Executive Committee who could vote to adopt it as a recommended Best Practice. Promotion of such an accepted guideline would be largely left to the Cluster.  There would be no enforcement mechanism at all, and we would have to create an effective method to convey its content to the membership. A Committees could use it to justify an expenditure that advances the guideline's goals. I suspect there are several other related recommendations that the Cluster could come up with to deal with other aspects of stewardship.

-Rob

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Rob Raskin
Group Supervisor, Science Data Engineering and Archiving
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA 91109
(818) 354-4228

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Subject: [Esip-preserve] ESIP Citation Guidelines

Hi all,

We have been talking a lot about data citation over the last year. The broader data community has too (GEO, DataCite, CODATA, ...). It seems to me that it is incumbent upon ESIP to make some sort of statement on the issue. Our statement of principles to be presented at the annual meeting mentions "appropriate citation," and say that "Data intermediaries will work with data creators to develop clear citations." We should give more guidance on how to do this. Probably not as part of the principles, but as a separate evolving document.

My understanding is that there is general consensus that, for the moment, the IPY Guideline (http://ipydis.org/data/citations.html) are suitable for collections, especially extant collections, but more work needs to be done to more precisely identify specific granules, subsets, versions, etc. The Committee that developed and maintained the IPY Guidelines no longer exists, and the website where they reside will close soon. Would it be reasonable for ESIP to adopt, update, maintain, and promote these guidelines?Do you all think it's a good idea? Is there some official process for this?

Cheers,

-m.
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