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Daily summary 2021-02-19
What is a Unit of Work Worthy of Credit?
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@qgroom asked if we want to use specimen attribution for credit, could we then see similar problems as with publication metrics? (e.g. perverse incentives / gaming the system.) What should be emphasised: number, quality or impacts? Maybe metrics best used by scientists themselves to track own development
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@debbie acknowledge the point re tracking own development & points at the Bionmia to Zenodo link as an example of a tool facilitating this
What new communities of stakeholders might benefit from access to biodiversity data that includes tokens of attribution?
- @debbie notes that our own communities will be new to getting credit
What are the drivers for attributing work and how might meeting these needs contribute to the long-term sustainability of collections or other producers of primary biodiversity data?
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@debbie better support for people who create / curate / manage collections and the related digital resources through professional routes & career options
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@debbie Knowing who also gets us much closer to sharing our much-needed human stories for “why do this work?”
Where to publish or share the attribution information
- @sharif.islam suggested data papers as published descriptions of datasets and the activities necessary for their compilation
Technologies / standards: Nanopublications
- @kylecopas suggests we identify all the aspects of the work around specimens (curation, data wrangling et al.) and treating them as part of a dynamic individual nanopublication that is steadily updated, corrected and reissued
What are the sociological/ethical/legal pitfalls we need to be sensitive to?
- @shaif.islam notes that a historical look worthwhile here - modern scientific breakthroughs are marred with not giving proper credits to the appropriate person, e.g. Telling the Truth About Who Really Collected the “Hero Collections”
Pointers to useful resources
- Similar working / interest groups:
- TDWG Attribution Interest Group (from @qgroom)
- Research Data Alliance working group - a precursor to the TDWG group (google drive link to materials folder) (from @annethessen)
- Models:
- Data papers:
- Chavan, V., Penev, L. The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science. BMC Bioinformatics 12, S2 (2011). The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science | BMC Bioinformatics | Full Text (from @sharif.islam)