Making processed subset of data in Dataverse available inside an R package

[Giuseppe Arena]

Good day everybody,

I worked on a (preprocessed) subset of a dataset in Dataverse and I would like to make it available inside an R package which I've been coding for my project. 

I wonder whether apart from the Data citation that I am going to write among the references in my paper how I should behave when it comes to the data made available inside the package.

Will the writing of the Data citation in the vignette/help function be enough? 

The data had to be preprocessed, as in removing records and some re-labelling where needed. Therefore, I think I also have to make this clear when citing Dataverse as the data I  provide inside the package are not the source data but a byproduct of them.

Does anybody know any best practice guide for citing/referencing when it comes to this specific case?

Thank you in advance for paying attention to my issue.

Best wishes,

Giuseppe Arena

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Giuseppe,

As you say, citing the original data seems like a good place to start. Since you are preprocessing the data, perhaps you can include the script you used to transform it. There are tools that help capture the provenance of the data, including any transformations that have been made. Renku comes to mind.

I hope this helps. Again, I think the main thing is to at least cite the original data. Others on this list probably have opinions too. :)

Thanks,

Phil

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[Giuseppe Arena]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for your answer!

I am going to give a look at Renku which seems to suit my case and to be a valid solution. :D

Best wishes,

Giuseppe

[Rok Roskar]

Hi Giuseppe,

Rok here from the Renku project :) Thanks Phil for pointing this thread out to me, the use-case sounds very much aligned with what Renku is trying to provide. You can import Dataverse datasets into a Renku project and capture the provenance of your pre-processing using the renku CLI. We've been thinking about some closer interoperability between Renku and Dataverse, as well as archiving projects for the purposes of publication and citation so this comes at a good time.

If we can assist with getting your project going on Renku, please feel free to sign up at https://renkulab.io and reach out to us on renku.discourse.group.

Best,

Rok