citing a vocabulary / including preferred example citation within an encoded vocabulary

[Rowan Brownlee]

Hi all,

Would you encourage use of datacite, describing the vocabulary as a resource of type "dataset"?  Are there other preferred approaches to citing semantic resources?

If you are (or might imagine yourself to be) a creator or publisher of semantic resources such as vocabularies or ontologies, do you, or would you include within the encoded file,  

• an example of a preferred citation format
• a pointer to a web page illustrating a preferred citation format
• nothing explicit to citation, but would include author, contributor, publisher details

Have you seen examples of recommended citation format within a semantic resource file?  I've seen non-machine readable approaches to recommending a citation format.  See for example, GCMD.

bye

rowan

[Rob Atkinson]

There are a few issues packed in here...at least...

1.  the informational requirements for citations and what this means to be able to traverse the citation to get to the resource in the form you need it

2. interoperability across different citation systems

3. granularity (term vs vocabulary)

4. provenance - where did things come from.

There are multiple citation formats (bibtex  etc...)  - so i thinks its safe to say that no single approach is going to be ubiquitous, so registering transformations between the _set_ of formats is what is required for a system-of-systems

From the granularity perspective, citation for terms can be done in a system that requires URI dereferencing with a SKOS profile (without assuming this is the only way)

 - e.g. http://www.opengis.net/def/metamodel/profiles/skos_shared

of course without URIs (explicit or implicit with namespace bindings) this will devolve into idiosyncratic solutions (or lack of solution) in every system 

(note that the lack of support for sharing vocabularies in the wider architecture means that someone has to roll-their-own solution - but also note it has been isolated from other concerns and encapsulated in a reusable form)

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[rowan.brownlee]

thanks Rob