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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Protocol for citing sources of data? - an example |
| Date: |
01/16/2007 12:15:01 PM |
| From: |
DickBoyd .. aol.com |
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In a message dated 1/16/2007 3:25:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
J.CHAMBERLIN@CGIAR.ORG writes:
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).
Another means of quoting the source are the little personal Easter Eggs
added to the map. Cartographers often add a fictitious road, or give a personal
name to some feature, or introduce an error or use an open symbol, such as a
star to indicate some feature which normally calls for a solid star. Or the
legend is toggled. Normally the legend is not visible. A series of commands, hot
keys or the like is required to view this hidden data.
If someone does copy their work, the original identification established by
these tags is still there.
Metadata is good. Possibly the user of the data has a metadata link in one
of the tags.
Being able to identify the source of data simplifies quality control. Those
intermediate users of copied data feel no motivation to correct errors. So if
someone else tells them of an error, the most likely response is nothing. Or
if there is a response it is along the lines of "he's no my job". Or to
correct the error only in that application and allow the error to continue with
other uses of the prime data. The thinking is possibly what they don't know
won't hurt them.
_DickBoyd@aol.com_ (mailto:DickBoyd@aol.com)
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