<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Matt,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Back in the NSIDC days; it truly depended on the dataset. If a set of people were funded by an agency to create a product and to archive it at NSIDC; they were the authors and NSIDC was the publisher. However if a product was sponsored/developed by a group (e.g. Callista Elders Council); the group name is used.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ruth<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 26, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Robert Downs via Esip-citationguidelines <<a href="mailto:esip-citationguidelines@lists.esipfed.org" class="">esip-citationguidelines@lists.esipfed.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">
<div class="">Hi Matt,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I appreciate that you raised the issue and agree with the thoughtful comments in favor of group authorship that were offered by Karen Stocks, below. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At CIESIN, we often create or contribute to the creation of data sets where institutional entities are listed as the authors. While there may be arguments for or against such practices, one advantage in having an institutional entity as an author is the existence of policies that can be referenced when making decisions about the data. For example, when CIESIN is the sole author of a data product, the data are assigned an open data license, such as the CC BY license, as stated in the CIESIN Open Data Policy, which is available at the <a href="http://ciesin.columbia.edu/documents/CIESINDataPolicy.pdf" target="_blank" class="">http://ciesin.columbia.edu/documents/CIESINDataPolicy.pdf</a> URL. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Below, please find some examples of references to recently released SEDAC data products that are authored or co-authored by CIESIN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University.
2021.
Global Subnational Infant Mortality Rates, Version 2.01.
Palisades,
NY:
NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
<a href="https://doi.org/10.7927/0gdn-6y33" target="_blank" class="">https://doi.org/10.7927/0gdn-6y33</a>. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
Hauer, M., and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University.
2021.
Georeferenced U.S. County-Level Population Projections, Total and by Sex, Race and Age, Based on the SSPs, 2020-2100.
Palisades,
NY:
NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
<a href="https://doi.org/10.7927/dv72-s254" target="_blank" class="">https://doi.org/10.7927/dv72-s254</a>. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University.
2020.
Food Insecurity Hotspots Data Set.
Palisades,
NY:
NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
<a href="https://doi.org/10.7927/cx02-2587" target="_blank" class="">https://doi.org/10.7927/cx02-2587</a>.
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University.
2021.
Annual PM2.5 Concentrations for Countries and Urban Areas, 1998-2016.
Palisades,
NY:
NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
<a href="https://doi.org/10.7927/rja8-8h89" target="_blank" class="">https://doi.org/10.7927/rja8-8h89</a>.
</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bob</div>
<div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif" class=""><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)" class="">Robert R. Downs, PhD<br class="">
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of
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Acting Head of Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics Research and
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN),<br class="">
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P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA<br class="">
Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922<br class="">
E-mail: <a href="mailto:rdowns@ciesin.columbia.edu" target="_blank" class="">rdowns@ciesin.columbia.edu</a><br class=""></span></span><div class=""><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif" class=""><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)" class="">Pronouns: he/him/his
</span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif" class=""><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)" class="">Columbia University CIESIN Web site:
<a href="http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu</a></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif" class=""><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)" class="">
ORCID: 0000-0002-8595-5134</span></span></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:13 PM Stocks, Karen via Esip-citationguidelines <<a href="mailto:esip-citationguidelines@lists.esipfed.org" class="">esip-citationguidelines@lists.esipfed.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_-8455316680412049298WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">Hi Matt,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">Group authorship is something I have used occasionally. It is useful not just when the staff list on a project gets so large as to be unwieldy, but also when you want it to be clear that the published product
(maybe describing a standard or a practice) was put out and thus endorsed by the program and not just by a set of individuals.
<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">HTH,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">-Karen<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<b class="">Reply-To: </b>Matthew Mayernik <<a href="mailto:mayernik@ucar.edu" target="_blank" class="">mayernik@ucar.edu</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Date: </b>Monday, April 26, 2021 at 10:40 AM<br class="">
<b class="">To: </b>Esip-citationguidelines <<a href="mailto:esip-citationguidelines@lists.esipfed.org" target="_blank" class="">esip-citationguidelines@lists.esipfed.org</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Subject: </b>[Esip-citationguidelines] Individual vs group authorship<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">We're having some discussions at NCAR about the relative merits of listing individual authors names vs a collective author name for a group. The ESIP data citation recommendations V2 indicate that both are acceptable. I generally understand
the rationale for both: individuals like to see their name and can potentially get credit more easily if their individual name is listed. On the other side, collective names bypass issues of "who is an author", which as you all know are difficult and situational
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">My question for all of you is: How common is it to use collective/organizational names as authors in data citations, instead of individual names? Do you (or your organization) list collective names? If so, is it your typical practice,
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any insight,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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