Hi Georgina,
I used the DataCite, ESRC and DCC's citation guidance when developing guidance, though they don't really offer suggestions on dealing with the order of authors. There's a CODATA Data Citation Standards/Practices WG that's looking at various issues related to citation at http://www.codata.org/task-groups/data-citation-standards-and-practices And various other resources can be found at http://wiki.datadryad.org/Citing_Data.
The key lesson I learnt when talking to researchers is that you should emphasise that it's the authors who made an *intellectual contribution* to the data's creation, processing and analysis who should be cited. Many of the social surveys that we publish are collected by PhD students or hired workers who are acting under instruction. These individuals do the legwork involved in data capture and should be recognised as contributors to the work, but don't make a contribution to the project as a whole. The notion of intellectual contribution also allows you to list the Principal Investigator and others who had a key role in overseeing the work, but didn't necessarily get involved in the day-to-day work.
Gareth
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Subject: Data authorship guidelines
Hello,
Does anyone have guidance or a policy on who can be a named creator/author of a dataset? Perhaps along the lines of the Vancouver protocol for publications.
We're starting to think we need one here as there isn't full agreement on the point. Generally, this is in the case of datasets underlying publications: one point of view being that the authors should only be the project team members who were actually involved in data creation/processing, but the other being that all researchers involved in authoring the article should be listed as data creators.
The http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-3/doc/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v3.1.pdf says for creator: "The main researchers involved in producing the data, or the authors of the publication, in priority order" which doesn't help much, and it can be a sensitive point so we'd like to set out some guidance before getting involved in further discussions.
Many thanks,
Georgina Parsons
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