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Breakout Session on Technical Issues
Pages 189-192

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... The group created a list of issues that were considered important regardless of the order in which they were discussed: · Determining the right versions to cite; · How we can use existing web conventions, such as landing pages; · The need for standards in creating human-readable and machine-actionable landing pages (e.g., XML, RDF) ; · How this relates to web mechanisms and how to leverage existing paradigms and not reinvent the wheel; · The need for a of a set of examples of existing technologies that are being used to illustrate; · How to put a dataset into a bibliographic tool, including syntax; · Views of data citations, and how to identify referenced datasets, granularity, and subsets; · How to determine what is really being identified (e.g., the item itself, a descriptive landing page, or a journal article or the XML document representing that article)
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From page 190...
... MOD12QA1 collection 5 is an identifier for a particular concept, but does not identify the specific files used for a particular scientific analysis. It is an identifier that is sufficient for assigning credit, but it does not provide enough information to identify the source of the particular data.
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From page 191...
... Questions that could be discussed more in the future While most of the discussion in this breakout group covered data citations and how to identify referenced datasets, granularity, and subsets; other questions were identified by some participants as potential subjects of a subsequent meeting:
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From page 192...
... For example, if one is citing three or fewer datasets, each one could be cited individually, but if four or more datasets are aggregated, then could one use the citation page to aggregate them? If as part of the research, a new dataset is derived or synthesized, and is going to be made available, are the researchers obligated to cite back to the original data source, or just to their "new" data, which then might have the link back to the landing page from the data source?
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