Identification and citation in EMBRC

Context of identification and citation in EMBRC / St Andrews

Questionnaire answers from EMBRC/St Andrews on Identification and Citation available at: https://envriplus.manageprojects.com/projects/requirements/notebooks/470/pages/40

Detailed requirements

Identification

1. What granularity do your RI’s data products have:
   a. Temporally (yearly, monthly, daily, or other)?
   > It varies
   
   b. Spatially (by measurement station, region, country or all together)?
   > It varies
   
   
2. How are the data products of your RI stored - as separate “static” files, in a database system, or a combination?
   > It varies
   
   
3. How does your RI treat the “versioning” of data - are older datasets simply replaced by updates, or are several versions kept accessible in parallel?
   > No policy to my knowledge
   
   
4. Is it important to your data users that
   a. Every digital data object is tagged with a unique & persistent digital identifier (PID)?
   > No policy
   
   b.The metadata for data files contains checksum information for the objects?
   > No policy
   
   c. Metadata (including any documentation about the data object contents) is given its own persistent identifier?
   > No policy
   
   d. Metadata and data objects can be linked persistently by means of PIDs?
   > No policy
   
   
5. Is your RI currently using, or planning to use, a standardized system based on persistent digital identifiers (PIDs) for:
   > No to all
   
   
6. Please indicate the kind of identifier system that are you using - e.g. Handle-based (EPIC or DOI), UUIDs or your own RI-specific system?
   > None
   
   

Citation

1. How does your “designated scientific community” (typical data users) primarily use your data products? As input for modelling, or for comparisons?
   > Modelling
   
   
2. Do your primary user community traditionally refer to datasets they use in publications:
   a. By providing information about producer, year, report number if available, title or short description in the running text (e.g. under Materials and Methods)?
   > yes
   
   b. By adding information about producer, year, report number if available, title or short description in the References section?
   >Yes
   
   c. By DOIs, if available, in the References section?
   > Not necessarily doi but things may be placed in a data depositry
   
   d. By using other information?
   > Supplemental data added to paper submission
   
   
3. Is it important to your data users to be able to refer to specific subsets of the data sets in their citation?
   > Very important: Date and time intervals, Geographic selection, Specific parameters and observables
   
   
4. Is it important to be able to refer to many separate datasets in a collective way, e.g. having a collection of “all data” from your RI represented by one single DOI?
   > No
   
   
5. What strategy does your RI have for collecting information about the usage of your data products?
   > No strategy different methods used.
   
   
6. Who receives credit when a dataset from your RI is cited ?
   > It varies

Formalities (who & when)

Go-between	Cristina Adriana Alexandru
RI representative	Charles Paxton
Period of requirements collection	November 2015
Status