Author roles draft definitions
Herbert J. Bernstein
yayahjb at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 11:20:27 BST 2020
How will authors with multiple roles be handled?
What if the actual role is not one of the ones enumerated?
What happens if a person who declines to be cited as an author is a person
who actually performed one of the roles cited?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:10 PM James Hester via coreDMG <coredmg at iucr.org>
wrote:
> Dear Core DMG,
>
> Please see the draft definitions for author roles provided below,
> developed in consultation with the CCDC and Chester. Please advise if you
> feel any roles are missing. The roles are listed at the very end of the
> definitions, the rest is boilerplate for setting up a new category.
>
> Note that we have explicitly decided not to adopt the CREDIT taxonomy, as
> that did not capture the way crystallographic experiments are conducted
> with sufficient granularity. The option remains open for us to include a
> separate category where "CREDIT" roles are assigned to authors.
>
> An important decision that is encoded in the definitions below is that the
> "primary" author identifier is found in the audit_author loop rather than
> e.g. publ_author. This expands the role of audit_author authors to cover
> anything related to the production of the data, whereas you could argue
> that this category was originally intended to cover "just" the author of
> the data block. If you expect this subtle in interpretation to cause
> problems, please speak up.
>
> thanks,
> James (Acting chair)
> ================================
> #
> # Draft definitions for author roles, for discussion
> #
> save_AUDIT_AUTHOR_ROLE
>
> _definition.id AUDIT_AUTHOR_ROLE
> _definition.scope Category
> _definition.class Loop
> _definition.update 2020-08-06
> _description.text
> ;
> The CATEGORY of data items used to describe the role that
> authors took in the production of the dataset.
> ;
> _name.category_id AUDIT
> _name.object_id AUDIT_AUTHOR_ROLE
> _category.key_id '_audit_author_role.id'
> loop_
> _category_key.name
> '_audit_author_role.id'
> '_audit_author_role.role'
>
> save_
>
> save_audit_author_role.id
>
> _definition.id '_audit_author_role.id'
> _description.text
> ;
> Unique identifier for the author for whom a role is identified.
> This may be repeated where an author took on multiple roles.
> ;
> _name.category_id audit_author_role
> _name.object_id id
> _name.linked_item_id '_audit_author.id'
> _type.purpose Encode
> _type.source Recorded
> _type.container Single
> _type.contents Code
> save_
>
> save_audit_author_role.role
> _definition.id '_audit_author_role.role'
> _description.text
> ;
> The role taken by the author identified by _audit_author_role.id,
> drawn from a predefined list.
> ;
> _name.category_id audit_author_role
> _name.object_id role
> _type.purpose State
> _type.source Assigned
> _type.container Single
> _type.contents Text
> loop_
> _enumeration_set.state
> _enumeration_set.detail
> design 'conceived and/or designed the experiment'
> synthesis 'synthesised the samples'
> preparation 'prepared the samples for measurement, e.g.
> crystallised or recrystallised the sample'
> characterisation 'performed non-crystallographic measurements on
> the samples'
> measurement 'collected and/or reduced diffraction data'
> analysis 'worked on the structural model'
> software 'developed bespoke software for specialised data
> processing and/or analysis'
> submission 'prepared the final CIF file'
> save_
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