Naming Collections of Solar Physics Data

To better deal with tracking cross-discipline data usage, a number of groups have come up with guidelines and principles for data citation. In 2012, the National Academy’s Board on Research Data and Information released the report “For Attribution-Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards” [1] and it was followed last year by the CODATA-ICSTI report “Out of Cite, Out of Mind”.[2] Participants from a number of groups synthesized a single set of principles for data citation that could be endorsed by all groups involved in research.[3] Implementing these principles can help to improve the scientific ecosystem by giving proper attribution to all contributors to data, improving transparency and reproducability, and making data more easily reusable to both astronomers and other researchers. Unfortunately, to implement these principles, we first need to come up with appropriate groupings of data such that they can be easily cited.[4] From this, we can determine appropriate names/titles to unambiguously identify them. The Virtual Solar Observatory will need to work with PI teams to determine these groupings and document them using the DataCite schema.[5] We will present the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles and the DataCite schema, discuss the implication of them for solar physics data, and recommend steps towards implementation. References: [1] National Research Council, 2012. “For Attribution-Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards”: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13564 [2] CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices (2013), “Out of Cite, Out of Mind: The Current State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of Data”, Data Science Journal V. 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2481/dsj.OSOM13-043 [3] 2014, “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles”, http://www.force11.org/datacitation [4] Wynholds, 2011, “Linking to Scientific Data: Identity Problems of Unruly and Poorly Bounded Digital Objects”. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i1.183 [5] DataCite, 2013. “DataCite Metadata Schema for the Publication and Citation of Research Data: Version 3“, http://dx.doi.org/10.5438/000