<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm one of those people who sits and watches movie credits - especially if I want to find out who did the music. SAG and AFTRA have had a long time to figure this problem out in their context, and most people a familiar with the result. The director, the producer, and the stars get "billing", everyone else gets something else that, if there's someone like me interested in a particular point, will wait to see and will appreciate having.</div><div><br></div><div>I am reminded of a quote from Kermit the Frog during the credits for one Muppet movie, in which he was riding in a hot air balloon with Fozzy Bear. They watched the scroll, and FOzzy asked sadly, "Do you think anyone ever reads these credits?"</div><div><br></div><div>To which Kermit chirpily replied: "Sure! They all have families!"</div><div><br></div><div>I had a point....oh, yes. So I would be happy to include many roles that are never considered for "citation" credit because that relationship is special in research literature and I really don't want to dilute it. But I would like to get the contributor metadata into the record so that those who are looking for it can find it and brag about it.</div><div><br></div><div>The DataCite Contributor Role standard value list is a Tall Pole problem for DataCite, however, so tread carefully.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-Anne.</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM Henneken, Edwin via semantics <<a href="mailto:semantics@ivoa.net">semantics@ivoa.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear all</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">This is a challenge that is very much on our (i.e. the Astrophysics Data System) radar as well. For one, we need to consider whether we need to update our metadata model to include the same distinction between different types of authors/contributors that the DataCite metadata model has. Updating the metadata model and capturing the associated metadata is probably the easy part. Integrating the distinction between different types of authors in our API/UI is definitely more work, but a solvable problem too. Attribution can be the hardest part, depending how you want to weigh citations. Does a curator get the same level of attribution as, say, the creator? This is particularly true when you look at derived metrics like normalized citations and citation-based indicators.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Edwin</div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Edwin Henneken </b></span></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">(he | him | his)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2"><span 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I mean: the EPNcore or ObsCore table metadata should be very explicit on what it is, and how to has been produced. The title and description has to be very clear on the content and the scope. </div><div><br></div><div>With your example:</div><div>The EPNTAP service is a "Curated catalogue of planetary observations by HST". The EPNcore metadata has been produced by Erard, et al. The original datasets used to produce the metadata are provided by the NASA/MAST database (or any other that has been used). <br><div><br></div><div>The metadata in the Registry concerns the catalog metadata, and should (must?) contain reference to the progenitor data if required, e.g., with relation like "is-metadata-for" linking to the DOI (or any identifier) of the original dataset (possibly included as a provenance statement)</div><div><br></div><div>So to me:</div><div>- the metadata of the EPNcore/Obscore table should relate to the metadata and not the original data, </div><div>- the relation to the source data should be explicitly stated and presented, both on the service description, as well as in the registry metadata.</div><div>- the EPNcore/Obscore table landing page should propose explicit citation policies ("how to cite this metadata", "how to cite the underlying datasets") </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Baptiste</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Le 2 févr. 2025 à 11:01, Stéphane Erard via semantics <<a href="mailto:semantics@ivoa.net" target="_blank">semantics@ivoa.net</a>> a écrit :</div><br><div><div>Hello<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm reviving an old request from the Solar System community but more general in scope:</div><div>What are the c<span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px">ommon practices concerning references to data services? How do we cite creators of content (ie: </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px">data)</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px"> vs services (ie, very often: a metadata table)? Can there be 2 different roles? - this is a recurring request from our providers, and a sensitive one.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px">Example: I'm maintaining an EPN-TAP service identifying planetary data from the HST catalog. Creating the metadata table is a significant work which deserves identification and involves a responsibility; but I can't pretend I've created the data. How do I call my role there?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px">VESPA distinguishes 3 roles, following current practices: </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px">Creator, Contributor, Publisher</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px"><div>But there is an obvious ambiguity with Creator that needs to be addressed.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Stéphane</div></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div>
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