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Metadata: field/section to reference papers/articles about the dataset
Hi,
If I'm not mistaken, I couldn't find any section in the IPT metadata to reference articles and paper related to the dataset. I think it would make sense to have something there.
For example, we encounter cases when people have a dataset generated especially for a publication, and they want to publish the data only after releasing their article. It would be great if that link could be expressed in a structured way in the dataset's Metadata. That seems complementary to what GBIF already does when it finds (via DOIs) articles related to a previously published dataset.
Any opinion?
Thx!
The method I use is the following, and I hope it's right?: I create the resource in the IPT, populate the metadata in collaboration with the author of a paper that deals with the data that we also want to publish in GBIF. Then, I publish the dataset from the IPT, but without registering with GBIF! - Thereby I get the DOI to the dataset on GBIF, to give to the author of a paper that deals with the data. Thereby he or she can have the GBIF DOI inserted in the final version of the paper sent to the journal publisher. The author then provides me with the paper title and DOI, which I insert at the IPT metadata fields named "Bibliographic Citation" and "Bibliographic Citation Identifier" respectively. When the paper is out, I register the dataset with GBIF. See for example https://www.gbif.org/dataset/fb375f1e-75fd-4249-9230-3e6489696107#bibliography - Is this the solution you are looking for?
Hi @niconoe. We currently use the bibliographicCitation for related publications, but I agree that it would be useful to distinct between publications merely cited by the metadata and publications:
- that are the source of the dataset: e.g. a checklist derived from the supplementary material of a previously published paper
- for which the data was collected/used: e.g. occurrence data for a taxon described in a (to be published) paper
- that are a datapaper for the dataset: e.g. tracking data described in a data paper
In fact, it would be nice to describe the relationship between the dataset and related publications. Zenodo does this (in a section called related resources).
@DanBIF: yes, we also list related papers in the bibliographic citation. We make sure that the DOI is included in the full bibliographic citation (as a https://doi.org/xxx URL which is the current guideline) and have stopped adding the DOI to bibliographic citation identifier: it's duplicate information and GBIF recognizes and parses URLs from the bibliographic citation anyway.
I don't know however how you can get the GBIF-issued DOI for your dataset without first registering the dataset? We always have to 1) publish, 2) register, 3) get DOI, 4) add DOI to metadata (e.g. in resource citation identifier and 5) republish. I wish we could pre-register a DOI before publication... as is possible in Zenodo.
A quick answer to the last part: we don't have a proper way to reserve a DOI, but since the process to register a dataset takes two API calls:
- register with minimal metadata (title, organization key etc)
- add endpoints (DWCA, EML etc)
and the DOI is created after (1) but before (2), it could be done "by hand". I'm not sure how much work it would be to change the IPT to support this, or some other "proper" way.
