[ckan-dev] Citations in CKAN

[Ross Jones]

Hi Joss,

Currently we have a social extension which has a means of sharing to twitter, facebook etc, and whilst it probably isn't the correct place for citations it does show how one might write an extension to insert content into the page - the code is at https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-social and is fairly specific to the 1.X branch.

 This is also likely to change in the upcoming 2.0 branch, and so it would be good to see if this was something that could be built as an extension specifically for 2.0.  I could fairly easily make this change for the data hub, but maybe a better plan would be to work out how it might be possible to allow sysadmins to choose their favoured format.

Is this something that the orbital project might want to take on? It could be a reasonable place to start with writing extensions.

Ross


> Good to see this being worked on. The Orbital project is certainly interested in this. 
> 
> In academia, datacite is being pushed as the defacto standard for data citation. It's handle/DOI based and led by the British Library. There have been workshops recently at the BL and quite a lot of write ups on blogs. Although datacite is a service for minting DOIs for data, it also makes recommendations for citation formats, which CKAN could adhere to, even if CKAN didn't include the option of using datacite for minting of DOIs (which costs money).
> 
> Here are some useful links:
> 
> List of data archives: http://datacite.org/repolist These aren't all using datacite by any means, but it's interesting to see how they publish research data.
> 
> http://mds.datacite.org/static/apidoc API docs!
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> http://schema.datacite.org for metadata required. 
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> For Orbital, I'd like to ensure that all the datacite mandatory and optional medata attributes are included by default:
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> Mandatory (5): http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-2.2/doc/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.2.pdf (page 8)
> Optional (12): http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-2.2/doc/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.2.pdf (page 11)
> 
> Some of these are already being captured by a vanilla CKAN install, others we could add ourselves, but it maybe its a useful benchmark for CKAN's default metadata? Page six of that PDF document also gives guidance on Citation formats. They recommend this format:
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> Creator (PublicationYear): Title. Version. Publisher. ResourceType. Identifier
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> Example:
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> Irino, T; Tada, R (2009): Chemical and mineral compositions of sediments from ODP Site 127‐ 797. Geological Institute, University of Tokyo.doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.726855. http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.726855
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> Using this format, your example citation would look like:
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> Song, Steve. (2012) African Terrestrial Fibre Optic Cables. the Data Hub. http://thedatahub.org/dataset/afterfibre
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> You can use http://search.datacite.org to find data that is using datacite and study the citation format. e.g. http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.57053 orhttp://esds.ac.uk/doi/?sn=86#0
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> and finally, http://test.datacite.org is a self-contained testing environment if you/we decide to write a datacite extension for CKAN.
> 
> Cheers
> Joss
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