Guidelines / Recommendations for Citing Data

On the issues with linking directly to data:

• Poster for 2013 AGU, ​DOIs Should Not Link to Data
• References :
  • CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices (2013), ​“Out of Cite, Out of Mind: The Current State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of Data”, Data Science Journal V. 12.
  • DataCite, (2013). ​“DataCite Metadata Schema for the Publication and Citation of Research Data: Version 3”
  • Force11, (2013) ​“DRAFT - Declaration of Data Citation Principles”
  • Hourclé, Chang, Linares, Palaniswamy & Wilson (2012), “Linking Articles to Data” (see below, 2012 RDAP)

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 (co-authors Chang, Linares, Palaniswamy & Wilson)
• 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)

Vocabulary for Data Citation

• Notes about the term "Data Citation" from the RDA / DataCite breakout Sept. 2013