[ckan-discuss] Should we ask researchers for citations or provide guidance on citations?

[William Waites]

Some related thoughts on this from opb,

  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/opb/papers/ssdbm2006.pdf

-w

* [2011-05-24 10:30:06 +0100] David Read <david.read at okfn.org> écrit:

] I think some sort of citation helper would be a good thing - we've had
] some other interest in this.
] 
] How about something small on the package page that could open-up to
] provide citations to copy and paste?
] 
] I agree that there are various use cases, with someone wanting to
] refer to the metadata in CKAN or one of the  and resources (although
] surely they'd just refer to the URL in the resource instead?). We
] could also add a timestamp, or revision ID in the link, perhaps as an
] alternative to the 'Accessed on 31/5/11' bit.
] 
] I understand there are various exacting standards for citations, but I
] would have thought the key thing is to suggest the idea and make it
] easy access to the key information required for whatever format the
] user needs.
] 
] Anyone else with thoughts on this?
] 
] David
] 
] On 18 May 2011 23:59, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
] > I'm looking at Dataverse for the first time[0]. It seems very popular in the
] > social sciences. I noticed that there is a recommended citation for each
] > dataset. For example, [1] is has this one: "Targeted Input Programme (TIP)
] > 2000-01", http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/SSC-MWI-TIP2000-01-M1 V1 [Version]"
] > Do people think that citations are important to CKAN? I guess it may be
] > useful to provide some guidance for academics/researchers who are creating
] > knowledge.
] >
] > Tim McNamara  |  @timClicks  |  timmcnamara.co.nz
] >
] > [0] http://thedata.org
] > [1] http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/SSC-MWI-TIP2000-01-M1
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