Hi folks,
I'm posting this question by Kyle Kwaiser that he put on the Ecoinformatics
list, since I'm curious what information you might be able to add. The most
in-depth response is further below.
Please respond to the list.
Thanks,
Brian
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From: Kyle Kwaiser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:15 AM
Subject: [ecoinfo] Citation norms for datasets
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Hello Colleagues,
I am working with graduate students this summer to archive their work at our
field station. I want to tell them to cite their datasets on their CV's but
I know this is not yet the norm.
Any general thoughts on how close we are to including datasets on CV's? Can
you suggest recent papers that argue (decisively) for this practice? Here
are two relevant but slightly tangential examples:
Reichman, O. J., M. B. Jones, and M. P. Schildhauer. 2011. “Challenges and
Opportunities of Open Data in Ecology.” Science 331 (6018) (February):
703-705. doi:10.1126/science.1197962.
Vision, Todd J. 2010. “Open Data and the Social Contract of Scientific
Publishing.” BioScience 60 (5) (May): 330-331. doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.5.2.
Best,
Kyle
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Kyle Kwaiser, Information Manager
University of Michigan Biological Station
9133 Biological Rd.
Pellston, Michigan 49769-9149 USA
Ph: 231-539-8789
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This response from Carl Boettiger provides the most material:
Kyle,
Are your students archiving these in repositories that will issue a doi for
the citation information? (Merritt, Dryad if they correspond to already
published work, etc)?
Here's a few more refs that have argued for this, some quite extensively.
This whole piece is essentially an argument for data citation:
Mons, B., Haagen, H. van, Chichester, C., Hoen, P.-B. ’T, Dunnen, J. T.
den, Ommen, G. van, et al. (2011). The value of data. Nature genetics,
43(4), 281-3. Nature Publishing Group. doi: 10.1038/ng0411-281.
Birney, E., Hudson, T. J., Green, E. D., Gunter, C., Eddy, S., Rogers, J.,
et al. (2009). Prepublication data sharing. Nature, 461(7261), 168-70. doi:
10.1038/461168a.
"another would be to track the usage and citation of data sets using
electronic systems similar to those used for traditional publications" who
cite this in support:
Sharing Data from Large-scale Biological Research Projects: A System of
Tripartite Responsibility (Wellcome Trust, 2003); available at
www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/ corporatesite/@policy_
communications/documents/ web_document/wtd003207.pdf
Tenopir, C., Allard, S., Douglass, K., Aydinoglu, A. U., Wu, L., Read, E.,
et al. (2011). Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. (C.
Neylon, Ed.)PLoS ONE, 6(6), e21101. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021101.
"Providing a secure but flexible cyberinfrastructure while promulgating
best practices such as data citation and metadata reuse, will help build
confidence in data sharing"
Rod discusses data citation quite a bit here:
Page, R. D. M. (2010). Enhanced display of scientific articles using
extended metadata. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World
Wide Web, 8(2-3), 190-195. doi: 10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.004.
Constable, H., Guralnick, R., Wieczorek, J., Spencer, C., & Peterson, a T.
(2010). VertNet: a new model for biodiversity data sharing. PLoS biology,
8(2), e1000309. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000309.
"By ensuring that data remain curated at the source, and by showing the
importance of data sharing to promote data citation and usage, we have grown
past our original technology implementation and are ready to move into a
long-term production environment that departs from the original model."
These three make mention of data citation, mostly in reference to increased
citation rates of papers.
Moore, A. J., McPeek, M. a, Rausher, M. D., Rieseberg, L., & Whitlock, M.
C. (2010). The need for archiving data in evolutionary biology. Journal of
evolutionary biology, 23(4), 659-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01937.x.
Whitlock, M. C., McPeek, M. a, Rausher, M. D., Rieseberg, L., & Moore, A. J.
(2010). Data archiving. The American naturalist, 175(2), 145-6. doi:
10.1086/650340.
Whitlock, M. C. (2010). Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best
practices. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1-5. Elsevier Ltd. doi:
10.1016/j.tree.2010.11.006.
Mark Parson's talk: http://ands.org.au/guides/data-citation-awareness.html
