[Esip-preserve] How to cite the works of the committee

[Robert R. Downs]

Mark -

If the committee becomes the designated author, a common way to provide 
attribution for individual contributions to a document that designates a 
fluid committee as the author is to include the names and affiliations 
of contributors in an acknowledgement section. If that approach is 
taken, most of the contributors could be identified from the revision 
history of the wiki and from the email trail. Similarly, most of those 
individuals' affiliations, at the time of their contributions, might be 
found in their email addresses. When listing contributors, it also is 
common to ask each if she or he wants to be included on the list as some 
may prefer to contribute anonymously.

Thanks,

Bob

On 8/30/2012 4:00 PM, Mark A. Parsons wrote:
> Good idea, Bob. Not all contributors made direct edits, though. For example, Bruce Barkstrom, had lots of input on the mailing list, but I don't think he made many direct edits. There were also valuable comments form the community (including yourself) during the review that  I incorporated. It's always difficult to sort out authorship after the fact. I guess I lean to making the committee the author.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -m.
> On 30 Aug 2012, at 1:24 PM, Mark A. Parsons wrote:
>
>> Dear ESIP Preservationists and Stewards,
>>
>> Our committee has published two documents on the new ESIP commons:
>> - Data Citation Guidelines for Data Providers and Archives
>> - Interagency Data Stewardship Guidelines
>>
>> The question now is to how to cite documents. In particular, who should have the credit and accountability of authorship?
>>
>> Since both documents have been approved by the ESIP assembly, we could just use ESIP as the author. That's vague but sounds authoritative. We could be more specific and use the Preservation and Stewardship Committee, but the membership is fluid so that's not particularly specific. With both documents, I think there was a clear lead author or two so one could use a name or two plus the committee. For example, we might have something like:
>>
>> Ramapriyan, H. K. and the ESIP Data Preservation and Stewardship Committee. 2012. Interagency Data Stewardship Guidelines . ESIP Commons. [DOI or ARK].
>>
>> or
>>
>> Parsons, M.A., R. Duerr, C. Tilmes  and the ESIP Data Preservation and Stewardship Committee. 2012. Data Citation Guidelines for Data Providers and Archives. ESIP Commons. [DOI or ARK].
>>
>>>  From a credit and general authority perspective I don't like naming specific individuals, but there's value in being specific from an accountability perspective. Plus it will always be tricky to decide who exactly should be named. The citation guidelines, for example, were definitely a group effort.
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -m.
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