12-14 November 2024, Costa Rica and Online
RDA 23rd Plenary Meeting (RDA P23) | Sustainable Science
Recommendations for handling Complex Citations
Collaborative Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17O97PcO4l1Oj3zIEN3I4tve9ZqD5JBIt �RDA Complex Citation WG: https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/complex-citations-working-group/
Draft Recommendation:�Agarwal, D., Ayliffe, J., J. H. Buck, J., Damerow, J., Parton, G., Stall, S., Stockhause, M., & Wyborn, L. (2024). Complex Citation Working Group Recommendation (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14106603
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What is a “Complex Citation”?
The Problems to be solved:
Motivation:
Complex Citation is to enable the creators, and other contributors for data, digital objects and physical samples to receive credit and better track the continued and growing value of a digital asset born from its original funding.
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What is a “Complex Citation”? - Initial Use Cases
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Justin Buck & James Ayliffe
Intergovernmental Panel �on Climate Change
Martina Stockhause
AmeriFlux & FLUXNET
Deb Agarwal / Joan Damerow
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What is a “Complex Citation”? - Workflow Actors
Workflow Actors
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Introduce WG’s draft recommendations
New Vocabulary:
Draft Recommendations:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14106603
Menti:
Code: 3605 3622
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Introduce WG’s draft recommendations: R1-R4 “must”
R1: Each Complex Citation Object must capture a sufficient level of granularity to ensure the credit and provenance to the specific cited material is included.
R2: Each Complex Citation Object must enable the mechanism of automated attribution and credit of each of the individual objects that are referenced.
R3: Each Complex Citation Object must be a clearly demarcated object that is not a primary output and should not accrue credit itself.
R4: Each Complex Citation Object must be identifiable, referenceable, remain stable and resolvable through use of a suitable PID mechanism. As such they may not be deleted. The reference to the linked digital objects of a complex citation object cannot be changed; any reference update to the content would require a new version to be issued (i.e., a new complex citation object).
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Introduce WG’s draft recommendations: R5-R8 “should”
R5: Each Complex Citation Object should employ a suitable versioning mechanism to support supersedence.�
R6: Each Complex Citation Object should adhere to a standardized structure, agnostic of� any particular provider, utilizing linked data defined elements to ensure interoperability� and machine actionability.
R7: Each Complex Citation Object should primarily support the use of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for the Linked Digital Objects within a Complex Citation where possible, but permit non PID-items to be provided via a stable resolvable reference, e.g. URLs.
R8: Each Complex Citation Object should be sufficiently flexible to allow easy adoption by providers of complex citation objects for a wide range of use-cases.
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Introduce WG’s draft recommendations: R9-R10 “should”
R9: Each Complex Citation Object should be provided, such that its metadata and content are always as open and accessible as possible/reasonable.
R9.1: The Complex Citation Object license applies only to itself and does not transfer� to any of the Linked Digital Objects.
R10: Each Complex Citation Object should have sufficient provenance metadata for its creation.
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What next? - Can Complex Citation solve the problem?
| Use Case: Complex Citation | |
Requirements | Meets Requirement | Comment |
Requirement 1 (citing subsets of larger datasets) | Y | Allows large listings of linked digital objects from subsets of large datasets |
Requirement 2 (Underpinning data for graphs, chapters) | Y | Allows graphs to identify data used for the graph |
Enable credit | Y | Through the provision of authors in the linked data objects allows the attribution of credit to the underpinning data bu needs further work |
Citing larger group of datasets | Y | Allows large listings of linked digital objects to collate information akin to one larger dataset |
Compression of knowledge graph levels | Y | Provides nodes that allow the compression of the knowledge graph to be unzipped by indexers |
User base beyond academia | Y | Complex Citation Objects are to be provider agnostic so as to allow non academics to create their own Complex Citation Objects and could be used for gray or white papers |
Traceability (historical connections between data, objects and citation outputs) | Y | By using DOI services will allow historic traceability and transparency of data used even if data are no longer available i addition to graph connections |
Knowledge graph to be limited to 2 levels | | Indexers require a restriction to the knowledge graph to ensure it is usable, manageable and sustainable. The how of the unzipping of the Complex Citation Object for the graph and interaction with indexers. _ |
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What next? - Implementation!
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THANK� YOU
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