Guidelines / Recommendations for Citing Data

On "Landing Pages" : Documents to serve as an interstitial proxy to citing data.

• Poster for 2012 RDAP meeting,  Linking Articles to Data, and  accompanying handout
• References for the poster:
  • Ball, A. & Duke, M., (2011).  “Cite Datasets and Link to Publications”.
  • DataCite, (2011).  “DataCite Metadata Schema for the Publication and Citation of Research Data”.
  • Domenico, B. (2011).  “White Paper on Data Interactive Publications”.
  • OAI, (2008).  “ORE User Guide - HTTP Implementation”.
  • Parsons M. & ESIP, “How to Cite an Earth Science Data Set” ( ESIP wiki page; and a  more stable URL)
  • SURF Foundation,  “Enhanced Publications”

• Not referenced in the poster, but an excellent explanation of the problems of leaving it up to the citing authors to identify the data being cited:
  • Wynholds L. (2011),  Linking to Scientific Data: Identity Problems of Unruly and Poorly Bounded Digital Objects;  (presentation at IDCC 2010)

• Last minute presentation at 2012 RDAP meeting :  SlideShare,  PowerPoint,  PDF w/ notes
• And more references from the talk:
  •  BagIt file packaging format
  •  Metalink standard for specifying files to download (RFCs  5854 and  6249)

Specifically for Solar Physics Data

•  Proposal for solar event identifiers
•  Checklist for documenting event / feature catalogs
• Recommendations for FITS headers ( poster at 2012 SPD meeting,  earlier checklist)
• Recommendations for Data & Software Citation in Solar Physics ( poster at 2012 SPD meeting)
•  Labeled examples of good things in FITS headers (a supplement to a  2011 AGU poster on the review of metadata)