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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Protocol for citing sources of data? - an example |
| Date: |
01/16/2007 05:30:00 AM |
| From: |
Chamberlin, Jordan (IFPRI-Addis Ababa) |
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I think you have an obligation to cite whenever possible. There are many
ways to indicate the value-addition that you have provided, without
neglecting to give credit to your inputs. If a map or table that I
produce for publication draws in any substantial way from someone else's
primary dataset, I might cite something like this within the text:
Source: Author's calculation, based on CIESIN/IFPRI/WB/CIAT (2006).
Or
Source: Authors, based on source data described in Box 1
or something like that, with the full citation in the references section
of the document, including any links or contact information of the
data-producing institution, e.g.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
Columbia University: The International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI): The World Bank: and The International Center for Tropical
Agriculture (CIAT), 2004. Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP):
Urban Mask - Downloaded from: http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/
on 15 January 2007.
By the way, on the question of *how* to cite, check out
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/citations/CitationGuidelines.html
for a very helpful guide, based on standard guidelines for different
types of data and their status (e.g. whether they are or not part of a
published collection).
Jordan
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of wolfe
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:59 PM
To: 'Jeremy Olynik': pibinko@gmail.com: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] Protocol for citing sources of data? - an example
Jeremey,
I'm going to come at your question from a slightly different direction.
My
purpose for citing sources is two fold: 1. I want to give credit where
credit is due (didn't plagerize)and I want to show the validity of my
data
sets and the analysis based upon them (I used data at the appropriate
scale
and from a reliable source).
Much of the work I'm currently doing is used by scientists that know
nothing
about GIS or cartography. Their back ground is in chemistry, soil
science,
hydrology, etc... That's their area of expertise. However, the maps I
generate are used as an integral part of their decision making process
and
they need to know that the data is reliable and that the analysis I have
provided them can be defended if need be.
Kathy Wolfe
Wolfe Geographics
Custom Cartography and GIS
www.wolfegeographics.com
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Olynik
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:29 PM
To: pibinko@gmail.com: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] Protocol for citing sources of data? - an example
Thanks for your replies on this matter Dick and Andrea. You give a good
example Andrea!
I didn't want to give the impression that I wanted to "get away with"
anything, or "re-engineer the stolen car".
What I was trying to get at is what Andrea mentioned with the
derivative/updated data. I would have thought that this would be a very
common question among GIS'ers.
Thanks again!
>From: "andrea giacomelli" <pibinko@gmail.com>
>To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
>Subject: Re: [gislist] Protocol for citing sources of data? - an
>example
>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:20:27 +0100
>
>Jeremy,
>
>As far as I know, there is no general consenus on the topic you pose -
>but rather than looking for consesus you should inquire with licensing
>typologies for data, remembering that data providers have done the same
>before you.
>
>Also, in my opinion, the question you pose is too open to get you a
>straight
>reply, and the community may think you are trying to re-engineer stolen
>cars.
>
>In an different (and more positive) interpretation I can give to your
>question, I would rather think you are trying to understand how to
>expose and provide proper acknowledgement for processing you may
>perform on a given data set, to produce "derivative"/updated data.
>
>An example:
>you acquire a data package from a provide, including a road network,
>place name data, and land use for the region where you live, because
>you need it for a presentation, and you want to save time to prepare
>some maps.
>
>you load the data on your beautiful preferred viewer, and you note
>blatant errors in the spelling of place names, and even more
>interesting errors in land use (specifically, a 2000 square km natural
>park area is classified as "urban").
>
>but you need to have the correct data, for your presentation! T.B.I.C.!
>(the
>boss is coming...he signed the purchase order for the data set, and he
>lives
>right next to t
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