Infrastructure

I've done a lot of Googling and some emailing/chatting and found some useful references.

The overall question is: "Who should show up in the data citation for an ISO 19115 record?"* Other considerations are:

• When people are authoring ISO metadata, are they thinking specifically about how their record will be rendered into a citation. If so, what's their interpretation?
• What will surprise users the least. We want to minimize surprise ("Why is this person listed in the citation?")
• We may need to balance best practice (whatever that is) with community practice

Re: Best practice

I essentially had no clue here prior to digging in. Data citations and citations in general are a total quagmire. I'm hearing and seeing essentially two things:

1. Most likely: Data citations should include the roles that logically map onto the idea of 'creator' and we need to decide on which roles we want to include.
2. Less likely: Perhaps data citations should be constructed from all citedResponsibleParty listed in the ISO Citation, regardless of role

For (1), the only official-ish source I can find is on the NOAA wiki (https://geo-ide.noaa.gov/wiki/index.php?title=ISO_19115_and_19115-2_CodeList_Dictionaries#CI_RoleCode):

| ISO | DataCite |
|-------------------------|----------|
| author | creator |
| custodian | |
| distributor | |
| originator | creator |
| owner | |
| pointOfContact | |
| principalInvestigator | creator |
| processor | |
| publisher | |
| resourceProvider | creator |
| sponsor | |
| user | |

From that list, wee see the cited roles should be author, originator, principalInvestigator, and resourceProvider.

For (2):

The ISO 19115 workbook, which is a human-readable manual for the standard, defines the element 'gmd:citation" as:

citation – Citation for the dataset

and its type, CI_Citation as:

CI_Citation – Bibliographic information to reference the resource.

My naïve reading of this is that all of the citedResponsibleParty contained inside the gmd:citation should (could?) be used in the citation for the data which would lead me use all roles.

The NOAA wiki for ISO_Citations (https://geo-ide.noaa.gov/wiki/index.php?title=ISO_Citations) says:

CI_Citation serves two purposes in the ISO 19115 Standard. First, it gives the information required to cite the data or the service (the resource) that is being described in the metadata. This CI_Citation can be part of the gmd:MD_DataIdentification or srv:ServiceIdentification objects.

The FORCE11 Data Citation Principles declarataion (https://www.force11.org/group/joint-declaration-data-citation-principles-final) says:

Data citations should facilitate giving scholarly credit and normative and legal attribution to all contributors to the data, recognizing that a single style or mechanism of attribution may not be applicable to all data[2].

This last point seems to making the case that either citations shouldn't just be the creators or that more people should be considered creators. I'm not sure which is the more sensible interpretation.

Re: Community practice

I'm not really familiar enough with the ISO metadata community to know where to even start trying to establish community practice. The only example of generating a single-line data citation from an ISO record comes out of . Help from the community would be greatly appreciated.

Had a great conversation yesterday with a NOAA researcher (Josh London, NMML) and was able to get their feedback on this topic. After sharing all the relevant details, he recommended a solution I hadn't even considered: Only map roles author and coAuthor into the origin field. This is probably quite different to what others want but I think he makes a great point. At the very least, it's what he finds least surprising.

Another important point he made is that, from a researcher perspective, it'd be nice to know two things: (1) what information you enter will go into the citation and (2) how I can control the order. These are separate concerns to this ticket but totally related and I at least wanted to write them down somewhere.