Compilation of Recommendations

Details

Short Title

6. The landing page should include metadata required for citation, and ideally also metadata facilitating discovery, in human-readable and machine-readable format.

Source Documnent

A data citation roadmap for scholarly data repositories

Source Document Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0031-8

Publishing Organisation

FORCE11.org and BioCADDIE Data Citation implementation Pilot Repositories Expert Group

Date of Publication

2021-04-10

Topic

Metadata richness/ ingest/ submission, Machine-actionability

Addressed Stakeholders

data service providers

Keywords

landing page, metadata, discovery, citation

Text

Landing pages should provide metadata required for data citation in both human- and machine-readable format, and should be accessible without requiring authentication. The landing page should show the citation metadata in human-readable form, e.g. formatted in one or more citation styles common to the community in a Cite this Dataset fi ld and, possibly, provide means of copying/downloading the citation as text. The landing page should also show all versions, or link to a page with version information. A visible link to machine-readable metadata should be provided. All metadata fields required for citation are part of Dublin Core (with the exception of version), the core schema.org specification, and by extension Bioschemas (https://bioschemas.org). The metadata standards Dublin Core, schema.org and DataCite by their very nature of being generic only provide some metadata helpful for discovery, while DATS can provide much more detailed information about a biomedical dataset. Further information can be found in the DATS specification. Information about related datasets should be provided where possible, as should information about related publications. They provide important information that can help with discovery. When a data repository knows about a publication citing a dataset, this information should be included in the metadata, complementing the information about the dataset found in the citing publication and enabling navigation between publication and dataset in both directions.