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Complex Citations: Next steps towards a Demonstration Prototype

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11 Jun 2023
Group(s) submitting the application: 
Complex Citations Working Group
Meeting objectives: 

 

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The Complex Citations WG addresses the use case of citing a large number of existing objects (e.g., datasets, software, or physical samples) such that credit for individual objects is enabled properly.  Such collections of objects may contain hundreds to millions+ of elements with a citation needing to include subsets of elements potentially from multiple collections. There are a number of terms used for this concept, to include Data Collection, Package, Crate and more.  Infrastructure and guidance are still required to make it easier for researchers to use this type of citation and receive/give credit for the object used in the research. This is critical to enable reproducible research, and important for researchers to be able to trace citation and usage of their work and report on impact to funders. For policy makers it allows for accurate tracking of policy decisions to the supporting data. 

In this session, we want to 

  • Provide a brief review of the scope and objectives of our work. 

  • Brief overview of the current use cases and an update on the current status of the work.  

  • Welcome any additional use cases; and 

  • Continue the discussion on requirements for the creation of a demonstration prototype. 

Meeting agenda: 
  1. Introduction to ESES Complex Citation WG and previous work (15 min)

  2. Brief overview of use cases and example reliquaries/collections (25 min)

    1. BODC - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IhMNyK0-B8PuMA57HyNRemHz9g9BpSsCoir0xrlJsd0/edit?usp=sharing

    2. IPCC - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sdAiAv3hzk9nNSLt_k0o41QHxF_lfj9QwSKXrHGmdSA 

    3. LCESP - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10v58s_ZeMlffXy_pxjleK08LEhbVhYOetqh80BzGT_8/edit?usp=sharing

    4. Geophysical Networks 

    5. Physical samples cited in papers 

    6. Geochemical Data 

  3. Discussion on current status of the reliquery requirements and prototype. Discussion.  (20 min)

  4. Discussion on work plan for next 6 months: what are our priorities (30 min): 

  5. Wrap-up (5 min)

Target Audience: 

Although the definition of the problem initially comes from the Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences, we want to engage with the broad RDA community to welcome all use cases.  We are especially inviting those with interest in PIDs (re: DOIs), FAIR Digital Objects, DOI Collections, repositories creating DOI collections, journals supporting citing DOI Collections, and Credit for the elements of a DOI Collection.

We particularly seek input from:

  1. Researchers that need to cite more than 10 research artifacts/objects in a research paper to help define the problem and  fully develop the recommendations and identify adopters. 

  2. Repositories working on challanges with granularity and tracking derived data products created from their data holdings.

  3. Journal staff and indexers to help develop a basic approach that applies to most variations and comment on some of the early drafts of the recommendations. 

Group chair serving as contact person: 
Shelley Stall
Brief introduction describing the activities and scope of the group: 

Starting in December 2020 during a Data FAIR Town Hall at AGU’s large meeting we reached out across the community for interest in supporting virtual working sessions that would lead to recommendations, adoption, and a better way of citing large numbers of data/digital objects in journal articles and other publications. 

During 2021 we held three large working sessions as well as smaller group development efforts, which are documented at. https://data.agu.org/DataCitationCoP/

The discussion was continued at a BoF at RDA-19: the BoF “Complex Data Citations: Formulating a Community Recommendation” session.

Short Group Status: 

Endorsed. Meeting regularly to develop recommendations. 

Type of Meeting: 
Working meeting
Additional links to informative material: 

  • Website: https://data.agu.org/DataCitationCoP/ 

  • Workshop Materials and links to recordings

    • Agarwal, Deborah, Coward, Caroline, Stall, Shelley, & Erdmann, Christopher. (2021, April). Data Citation Community of Practice - 8 April 2021 Workshop. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4673622

    • Agarwal, Deborah, Goble, Carole, Soiland-Reyes, Stian, Sarkans, Ugis, Noesgaard, Daniel, Schindler, Uwe, Fenner, Martin, Manghi, Paolo, Stall, Shelley, Coward, Caroline, Erdmann, Chris, 2021. Data Citation Community of Practice - 8 June 2021 Workshop. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4916734

    • Stall, Shelley, Buck, Justin, Ayliffe, James, Stockhause, Martina, Agarwal, Deb, Coward, Caroline, & Erdmann, Chris. (2021, October 29). Data Citation Community of Practice - 29 October 2021 Workshop. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5641236

Avoid conflict with the following group (1): 
Data Granularity WG
Avoid conflict with the following group (2): 
ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences IG
Meeting presenters: 
Deb Agarwal, Justin Buck, James Ayliffe, Martina Stockhause, Lesley Wyborn, Shelley Stall
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