[Esip-preserve] DataCite to require "landing pages"

[Kenneth S. Casey]

Jeff,

On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Dr.Jeff de La Beaujardiere wrote:

> Can an ISO 19139 (XML) metadata record serve as a landing page?
> If not, what about HTML produced from the XML using a stylesheet?

Sure... that is basically what a lot of portal systems do right now, with ISO or FGDC.  We in fact fought the battle with data.gov to get them to allow us to have their "one-click to data" policy mean "one-click to the landing page", since pointing a user directly to a binary data file is a completely stupid thing to do. Without the metadata, the user has no idea what they are being "one-clicked" to.  Even if it is a well-structued netCDF with lots of internal metadata it is not generally a good idea.

Ken

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> -Jeff DLB
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> On 2012-02-22 12:55, Greg Janée wrote:
>> There are some changes brewing at DataCite regarding DOI requirements. Per Joan
>> Starr:
>> 
>> "There is a very strong push within the group for a requirement that all DOIs
>> point to landing pages and not to the object directly. [For submitters that
>> don't provide their own landing pages] DataCite is going to create canned
>> landing pages based on the metadata that submitters provide."
>> 
>> What constitutes a "landing page"? Again, per Joan:
>> 
>> "The landing page typically contains one or more of the following:
>> +full citation of the data
>> +statement on access to data (such as a link to the data or usage restriction
>> information)
>> +associated metadata
>> +information, software, or context required for unpackaging, reading and
>> interpreting the data"
>> 
>> I'm curious what this group thinks about this requirement. It certainly narrows
>> the scope of applicability for DOIs.
>> 
>> -Greg
>> 
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Kenneth S. Casey, Ph.D.
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