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

Bruce Barkstrom brbarkstrom at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 16:59:14 EST 2012


Any thoughts about lightening the load on the user if
he or she if familiar with the site and has downloaded
other files before?  Why does a user like that need the
full collection of metadata?

Bruce B.

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Kenneth S. Casey <kenneth.casey at noaa.gov>wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -Jeff DLB
>
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> Jeff de La Beaujardière, PhD
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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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