New thoughts on citations

Different perspectives

• I have a dataset and I want to “tell” other people about my dataset referencing articles etc.
• I have a journal article and I want to “tell” other people about the data I used as a basis of my study

Even Newer Thoughts on citations November 6, 2015

Newer thoughts on citations

Current Model

Current Model Overview

Questions

• Is a citation an information blog or actual machine readable structures?
  • Example: Do we model the authors (agents)? YES!
• Do we care only about IDs based on web best practices or any identifiers?
• Do we care about concepts like retractions?

Activities

• http://www.sparontologies.net/
  • There's lots here, a word of caution, attempting to assimilate everything in these ontologies may make your head explode. ;-)
• https://www.force11.org/datacitation/endorsements
  • We'll want to get feedback from this community.
• http://taxonomies.labs.crossref.org/?p=201
  • Impressive efforts, lots of abundant detail here to support various journals that goes way beyond the scope of DUV.
  • May have some good examples for citing authors that we could use along with other information.

Standards (Not necessarily web) Activity Examples

• http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/citedata
• https://peerj.com/preprints/697/
• https://www.force11.org/node/4771
• https://www.datacite.org/services/cite-your-data.html

Additional Examples

• APA Style Guide: http://www.misericordia.edu/uploaded/documents/library/Books/APAStyle.pdf?1436800286903
  • Provides four main parts.
  • Provides guidance on what to do when a part is missing.
  • Summary of APA Style Guide http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/c.php?g=96245&p=626239
  • Contains info on DOI contents (which also might be useful)
• Science example of describing data on the web. (version):
  • Dataset description page: http://www.arm.gov/data/vaps/armbe/armbecldrad?site=sgp&facility=c1
  • A technical report refering to ARMBE dataset: http://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-21831.pdf

Path forward on building the model

• There isn't a clear single standard way of citing data on the Web, and we need to acknowledge this at some level.
  • Perhaps one way is reusing existing properties from other vocabularies, but not attempting to reuse vocabulary fragments
• We need to borrow heavily from standards citations efforts and bring them to the web.
• Citations can be used in a number of ways:
  • Part of feedback
  • As a reference to a QA document
  • A users guide for the data.