Action-176 Comments from Annette G.

Hi Annette,

Forgive me, I remember now that you had brought up some of the original
thoughts on citation at the F2F.  Thank you for sharing your perspective
again.

I am copying your thoughts on the Action assigned to Phil for the data
citation.

Cheers,

Eric

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov> wrote:

> I *may* be the person you are thinking of as having made a strong case for
> citation. I do think it is extremely important for researchers, though I
> was trying to make the case for something a little different that I think
> is covered by DataUsage (s/b DatasetUsage?). What happens frequently where
> I work is that agencies who fund research set a requirement to report back
> who uses the results and how. What this means is that funding of web-based
> data-sharing efforts is dependent on our ability to report back who is
> using the data we make available. Unless we make users register before
> downloading, that usually means we are stuck just checking IP addresses on
> download requests. Even with registration, whether and how the data is
> actually used by the downloader is still a mystery. One way of finding out
> who has used your data is by finding citations in published journal
> articles, but this is a matter of luck (if you happen to read the article
> and see an acknowledgment mentioning it). What is needed is a means of
> discovering these uses without depending on the reuser to report it.
>
> Citations seem to me not only different from reporting usage but also
> different from feedback. The stakeholders are very different, and the flow
> of information is in the opposite direction in a way. The usual intent of a
> citation is to show the consumer (user of an app or reader of a report,
> etc.) that you’ve used authoritative sources, done your homework, and
> therefore are trustworthy. So the flow is mostly from a data reuser to an
> end user. On the other hand, the flow for feedback is from the data reuser
> or end user to the publisher.
> -Annette
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> Annette Greiner
> NERSC Data and Analytic
>