Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of CitationVocabulary

Timestamp:

09/19/13 06:06:03 (11 years ago)

Author:

joe

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CitationVocabulary

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+= Notes about Vocabulary / Terminology on Data Citation =
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+(these notes were made late at night, September 18th, 2014 after 3 days of meetings ... might not be fully coherent, especially not without the context of the "Data Citation Principles" proposal we were discussing -Joe H.)
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+After thinking about it while stuck in DC traffic on the way home, I realized that there might be as many as five[!1] different things that we've been calling "Data Citation" :
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+1. There is the reference from a given item to another item.
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+        example : "SOHO/EIT level 1 data" is derived from "SOHO/EIT level 0 data" and "SOHO/EIT calibration".
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+2. There is the string that is a serialized reference to the data.
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+        example : Hutyra, L., S. Wofsy and S. Saleska. 2007. LBA-ECO CD-10 CO2 and H2O Eddy Fluxes at km 67 Tower Site, Tapajos National Forest. Data set. Available online at [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. U.S.A. doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/860
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+3. There is the document containing information about the data. (ie, the 'landing page' that we're not trying to mention.)
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+        example : http://daac.ornl.gov//LBA/guides/CD10_EddyFlux_Tapajos.html
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+4. There is the information contained in #3.  (the DataCite metadata, plus whatever other metadata that community may deem useful)
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+5. There is the whole process as a more abstract concept.
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+        example : data citation should be part of tenure & promotion considerations.
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+6. There is the action of citing data.  (I might be starting to stretch things a bit ... but a specific instance of citation;  the action vs. the linkage or the record of the action)
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+If we know what 'potato' is, and we know what 'pancakes' are, we're likely to make an assumption that when someone says 'potato pancakes' they mean something closer to matafan, boxty or a potato fritter rather than latkes.[!2]
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+Because of the different definitions for 'citation', it's likely that most people will assume 1, 2 or 5, and might get those from context.  I believe it's unlikely that they're going to know we're talking about 3 or 4 from the 'Data Citation Principles' document.
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+I think we need some new term for 3 & 4 ... 'metadata' is likely too generic for #4, and there were problems with just 'description' as we're dealing with a much more formalized item.
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+I don't think I have a good term yet, but just some notes to might spur someone to think of something:
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+        Data Record (we're trying to establish a record for data ... Ruth thought this is likely to be confused with Data Granule)
+        Data Description (maybe capitalized we suggest that it's got a more formal definition? ... although I don't want to get into the 'publication' vs. 'Publication' discussions all over again)
+        Front Matter
+        Bibliographic Record (the 'BR' in 'FRBR')
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+I mentioned to Maryann in a break that I think it's important to distinguish 1/2 vs. 3/4:
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+        in 3/4, we only have attributes about the data, and the publication of the data (eg, when it was released)
+        in 1/2, we also have information about the linkage itself.  (subsetting of the data being cited and the CITO relationships)
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+-Joe
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+[!1] I had three when I started writing this, but then realized I had to differentiate 1&2 and 3&4.  And now I just added a 6th.  Blah.
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+[!2] Not all of you have seen my various pancake presentations ... see http://vso1.nascom.nasa.gov/pancakes/ or for the 5 min video : http://igniteshow.com/videos/polysemous-terms-did-everyone-understand-your-message
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