| | 1 | (this is a snapshot of the AuthorChecklist from 2015/Apr/23, as I'm going to edit that one so it's more cronological) |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | = Checklist for Authors of Science Articles in Solar Physics = |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | TODO: clarify which of these apply to raw data vs. intermediary data vs. final results / published data. Also, try to clean this up so it's more cronological : (1) where you got the data from, (2) how you reduced the data, (3) other processing applied. |
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| | 7 | == Background: == |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | * [http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/2009AGUTownHall AGU Town Hall on Data Citation] |
| | 10 | * [http://ipydis.org/data/citations.html "How to Cite a Data Set" from IPY] |
| | 11 | * [http://sdac.virtualsolar.org/catalogs/catalog_checklist.txt "Catalog Checklist" (for people publishing catalogs)] |
| | 12 | * [http://www.agu.org/pubs/authors/policies/data_policy.shtml "AGU Data Policy"] |
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| | 14 | |
| | 15 | == Goal : == |
| | 16 | Ensure that research is reproducable. |
| | 17 | |
| | 18 | === Secondary goal: === |
| | 19 | Provide attribution for the data/archives, and software or other tools, so they can justify their continued funding. |
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| | 21 | |
| | 22 | == Policy : == |
| | 23 | * Data used in articles should be made publicly available. |
| | 24 | * If the data is not already available from an archive, it should be included as a supplement to the article. |
| | 25 | * Observations should be sufficiently described to allow reviewers or other scientists to easily verify the article's claims. |
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| | 27 | |
| | 28 | == Checklist for Submitters: == |
| | 29 | |
| | 30 | * Have I described the data that was used in this research? |
| | 31 | * In terms of the instrument / observatory / observatory group used? |
| | 32 | * And the specific dataset that was used? (eg, used the PI provided Level 2 data vs. the L0 data that you processed yourself) |
| | 33 | Note : working on recommendations for data providers to provide consistent names or identifiers to each dataset. |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | * In terms of day/time being analyzed? |
| | 36 | * In terms of location being analyzed (if not 'full disk') |
| | 37 | * In terms of any subsetting done of the data? |
| | 38 | * If using a lower cadence than the original data: |
| | 39 | * What cadence was used ('1 per minute' vs. '1 per day') |
| | 40 | * How the cadence aligned (eg, '1 per day, first image after midnight UT' vs. '1 per day, closest to local solar noon') |
| | 41 | * If using only a specific observing mode or filter: |
| | 42 | * 'total brightness' vs. 'polarized brightness' for instruments such as SECCHI/COR2 |
| | 43 | * Specific wavelengths from SOHO/EIT, STEREO/SECCHI/EUVI, SDO/AIA, etc. |
| | 44 | * AEC vs. non AEC for SDO/AIA. |
| | 45 | * If using cutouts from the original data |
| | 46 | * eg, "200 arcsec patch centered on AR10943" vs. "200 arcsec wide by 400 arcsec high centered on ... xSun, ySun" - |
| | 47 | ‘... at 400 xSun,-600 ySun’ ; ‘... at 45W60N’ |
| | 48 | |
| | 49 | * If using reduced resolution images |
| | 50 | * The size of the resulting images, and how it was reduced. |
| | 51 | * '1024x1024 images, 4x4 binned' vs. '2048x2048 images, sampled using the lower left' |
| | 52 | * In terms of where I obtained it from (from which archive, at what time) |
| | 53 | * Specified which specific version of the data you used, if the archive provides more than one. |
| | 54 | * eg, 'daily movies' vs. 'level 0 FITS files' vs. 'level 1 JPEGs' |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | * Have I described the processing that I did to the data for analysis? |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | * Have I acknowledged software and tools used ... |
| | 59 | * to find & obtain data (HEK, VSO, EGSO, !AstroGrid, Solar Monitor, etc.) |
| | 60 | * to visualize data (Helioviewer, JHelioviewer, !SolarWeather Browser, etc.) |
| | 61 | * to process the data (SolarSoft, PDL, !SunPy, IRAF, etc.) |
| | 62 | |
| | 63 | * If there were models or catalogs used: |
| | 64 | * Have I provided a reference to the article in which they were introduced? |
| | 65 | |
| | 66 | * If discussing specific events: |
| | 67 | * Have I given the time and coordinate of the event(s)? |
| | 68 | * Have I provided an [http://solarnews.nso.edu/2009/20090801.html#section1 identifier for the event(s)]? |
| | 69 | |
| | 70 | * Is the data available for others to review? |
| | 71 | * Is the data available from an archive online, or have I included it for submission as a suplement to the article |
| | 72 | * If I have significantly processed the data, have I included my data for submission as a suplement to the article? |
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