17-12-22 GRSF citation policy¶
Meeting Notes
Topics: A first draft for the GRSF citation policy and examples have been prepared. RAM, FishSource and FIRMS representatives are interviewed in order to identify the most appropriate way to cite their data. Such citation policy is needed for the public release of the Global record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRSF) through a dedicated iMarine VRE, and it is back-boned by the iMarine infrastructure which supports its implementation along principles and features designed in the past iMarine projects.
RAM (Susana Segurado, Merul patel)
FAO (Vivi Katifori, Nicolas Bailly, Aureliano Gentile)
- Table of contents
- 17-12-22 GRSF citation policy
Notes¶
What is the legal status of the organization?
Fishsource is a program of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation, which is US-registered nonprofit.
The data comes from different sources. It is public information available on-line. There are no agreements in place.
What would be the format of the citation provided in GRSF for Fishsource?
The GRSF record is referring to the profile in Fishsource, like https://www.fishsource.org/stock_page/2280.
A citation approach similar to the one proposed for RAM could be sufficient.
Contributors may be many and the citation would be too lengthy, so it is better not to add them.
A citation example for FishSource records was discussed and formulated:
[© SFPF]
[Title of content]. -> Pacific chub mackerel - Ecuadorian
[Series title]. -> FishSource profiles
In: [Publisher]. -> FishSource online
Updated [Update date]. -> 22 November 2017
Accessed [Date accessed and/or downloaded]. -> Creation date in GRSF (Reporting Year)
[URL] -> https://www.fishsource.org/stock_page/2280
“Date created” is optional. In the FishSource database lately there has been a migration so this date gives no particular information, as the migration date has replaced it.
The “Update date”, in this case is the data the GRSF has harvested this information from Fishsource.
What happens if a resource from Fishsource becomes obsolete and removed?
If a Fishsource record is updated then in the new harvesting it should be updated accordingly with a recent access date. The update date in GRSF will be the access date from GRSF.
Maybe the record will be moved from published to archived in the case the record becomes obsolete.
What about the original providers?
We refer to the source of the information and ask the users to cite it.
GRSF will provide a very brief instruction in the citation box
Exploitation perspectives.
The data will remain public and accessible and possible additional services are provided with fees and the data providers can share on this income. This could be an incentive for the data providers to agree on the exploitation. Examples of services include to retrieve URIs, submitting records…
SFP would like to verify the legality of this approach. Terms specify that the use of data can be also commercial.
Follow-up¶
Resources¶
- GRSF Definitions
- EAB TWG2 on GRSF report http://www.fao.org/fi/static-media/MeetingDocuments/BlueBRIDGE/EAB-TWG2-GRSF/EAB-TWG2-GRSF_REPORT.pdf
- EAB TWG1 on GRSF report http://www.fao.org/fishery/docs/DOCUMENT/FIGIS_FIRMS/TWG5/FIRMS-TWG5-Report.pdf (See Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries - Agenda Item 7)
- GRSF requirements: https://support.d4science.org/projects/stocksandfisherieskb/wiki/GRSF_database_overview
- GRSF Admin VRE https://i-marine.d4science.org/group/grsf_admin/data-catalogue
- FishSource Terms of Use - Paragraph 5 - https://www.fishsource.org/terms
