1. A GEOSS (Data) Citation Standard: Status, Issues, Next Steps Hans-Peter Plag IEEE University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA;

2. A GEOSS (Data) Citation Standard: Status, Issues, Next Steps - The ST-09-02 Activity - Brief History - STC Plan

3. Activity 2: Encourage relevant scientists and technical experts to contribute to GEOSS in a truly participatory way. That will result in two levels of activities, i.e. by creating an environment that is generally attractive for scientists and technical experts, and by specifically targeting relevant groups: 1. (Roadmap 2a) Getting GEOSS acknowledged: In the scientific community in particular, recognition and renown are important currencies. In order to increase the attractiveness of GEO and GEOSS for scientists, their contributions must be acknowledged visibly when others use it to their benefit. A GEOSS citation standard will be proposed by the end of 2009 and its use will be promoted thereafter. ST-09-02 Task Definition Questions: - Proposed to whom? - ST-09-02 to STC; - STC to ExCOM; - STC to Plenary - Promoted by whom and how?

4. Activity 2: Encourage scientists and technical experts to contribute to GEOSS 2.1 Roadmap Activity 2a; a GEOSS citation standard: - Delayed due to lack of resources - Preliminary overview compiled prior to the M2, September 30, 2010. - Input from Mark Parsons, ESIP - EGIDA Task 3.1: lead by BLB Brief History

5. Task 3.1 GET GEO/GEOSS better acknowledged (Activity 2a) [BLB, IIASA, NERC, CNR, ISPRA, IEEE] This task aims to contribute to the GEOSS citation standard currently under development by ST-09-02. EGIDA will participate in and monitor the international discussion of data citation rules and standards. Specific attention will be paid to the related activities performed in the context of planned and on-going FP7 European Projects contributing to GEO/GEOSS. EGIDA will collect and elaborate on them, thus proposing and supporting their contributions in the international discussion. A possible collaboration with CEN TC287 will be explored. In fact CENT TC 287 will play a major role in collecting, publishing, and maintaining significant deliverables stemming from FP7 projects dealing with interoperability for GEO/GEOSS, GMES and INSPIRE. Based on the information gathered in this step, EGIDA together with ST-09- 02 will propose a GEOSS data citation standard which is as far as possible consistent with the emerging international consensus on data citation rules. The GEOSS data citation standard to be proposed will ensure that contributions to GEOSS services and data sets are traceable and fully credited. Together with ST-09-02, EGIDA will support the STC in the process of getting the standard accepted by GEO and implemented for GEOSS. Brief History D3.1 (PM9) “Proposal for a GEOSS citation standard”. Document. This deliverable is the output of T3.1 and it details the proposed GEOSS citation standard.

6. Activity 2: Encourage scientists and technical experts to contribute to GEOSS 2.1 Roadmap Activity 2a; a GEOSS citation standard: - Parson at M2: Better to have a standard now than to wait until all problems are solved. - EGIDA developed draft standard based on IPY rules. - ST-09-02 iterated draft in March 2011. - Draft GEOSS Citation Standard V1.0 presented to STC-16 (Sydney, April 14-15, 2011): Decision to take it to the ExCom. Brief History

7. Minutes of STC-16: 6.5 GEOSS Citation standards H.P. Plag presented the document he prepared for a proposal on GEOSS Citation standard. The document reports a lot of technical details and should be considered as a first draft to open the discussion between the GEO main Organizations. There are several issues that remain open such as reproducibility and quality control that are not considered in the current version of the document. The document proposes IPY data citation standard as interim solution to implement a first version of the GEOSS citation standard. H.P. Plag reported that no single citation existing is able to solve the issues posed by GEOSS. R. Sayre reported that USGS publishes the data only after the data have been published in peer-reviewed papers. In this case the citation refers to the publication. S.I. Khalsa reported that NASA also always reference the paper because the data must be validated prior its dissemination but there was also a citation of the dataset per se. Action STC16.05: the STC to take Citation Standard forward and share the process with the broader Committees and the Executive Committee. Action STC16.06: the STC Co-Chairs to prepare a proposal for ADC to implement the citation standards within the GCI. Brief History

8. Activity 2: Encourage scientists and technical experts to contribute to GEOSS 2.1 Roadmap Activity 2a; a GEOSS citation standard: -... - Draft GEOSS Citation Standard V1.0 presented to STC-16 (Sydney, April 14-15, 2011): Decision to take it to the ExCom. - Draft reviewed by two reviewers in May 2011. Brief History

9. EGIDA Draft deliverable; two reviews: R1: - good start; - lack of motivation why GEO is a good framework; - does not include DOI; - very many technical details; - implementation not sufficiently explained; R2: - valuable, needed; - many open issues; data citation rather different from other publications; - GCI a good place to promote data citation; - can real-time data be included? Brief History

10. Activity 2: Encourage scientists and technical experts to contribute to GEOSS 2.1 Roadmap Activity 2a; a GEOSS citation standard: -... - Draft GEOSS Citation Standard V1.0 presented to STC-16 (Sydney, April 14-15, 2011): Decision to take it to the ExCom. - Draft reviewed by two reviewers in May 2011. -... - EGIDA deliverable prepared in June 2011. - Draft presented to ExCom at 22nd meeting, 12-13 July 2011: Brief History

11. Draft Minutes of 22nd Meeting of ExCOM: 1 0 REPORT OF COMMITTEES (DOCUMENTS 14 - FOR INFORMATION) Mr Cripe presented the report on behalf of the co-chairs of the four GEO committees. He highlighted the Science and Technology Committee’s request to the Executive Committee that it take note of work on a data citation standard that the STC has been developing based on the model used for datasets generated under the International Polar Year research program. The STC plans to invite comments on the standard from the other committees at the September co-located meetings and would then like to present the concept to Plenary in Istanbul. Brazil stated his view that this work was not limited to GEOSS and did not need to be carried out by GEO. Australia said that it could be a good thing and would add value if GEO became a catalyst for a standard that was broadly used, including outside of GEOSS. The United States appreciated the concept being presented and suggested that the work of ICSU and others on this topic be fully reviewed and incorporated; given the crowded agenda for GEO-VIII it would be best to delay action and take more time to consider the best approach. Germany confirmed that the proposal built directly on the work of ICSU and others and said that GEO could have a coordinating role; it could promote the concept and in this way add value to it. Japan said the data citation issue is particularly important for scientists who want recognition for the datasets contributed to GEOSS. The Secretariat Director agreed that the issue may not be sufficiently mature for the next meeting of the Plenary. ICSU and other GEO Participating Organizations were working on it and GEO should follow the issue. The Chair concluded that the issue of a citation standard was of interest but should be addressed at a later date.

12. Brief History Activity 2: Encourage scientists and technical experts to contribute to GEOSS 2.1 Roadmap Activity 2a; a GEOSS citation standard: - Parson at M2: Better to have a standard now than to wait until all problems are solved. - EGIDA developed draft standard based on IPY rules. - ST-09-02 iterated draft in March 2011. - Draft GEOSS Citation Standard V1.0 presented to STC-15 (Sydney, April 14-15, 2011): Decision to take it to the ExCom. - Draft reviewed by two reviewers in May 2011. - EGIDA deliverable prepared in June 2011. - Draft presented to ExCom at 22nd meeting, 12-13 July 2011: - issue of interest but should be delayed - GEO Director: GEO should follow the issue - Data Citation discussed at STC-17, 12 September 2011 - Data citation receives rapidly increasing attention: ESIP, ICSU/CODATA, WDS, U.S. Academy of Sciences, DataCite,... - Details will be discussed under Item 4

13. - Data Citation discussed at STC-17, 12 September 2011 My impression: - STC respects the guidance of the ExCOM. - STC recognizes that ST-09-02 was following the international discussion (as recommended by the GEO Director in the ExCOM) - STC understands the importance of having a GEOSS Data Citation Standards Actions agreed upon: - STC Co-Chairs will write to ExCOM and emphasize the importance of getting a standard accepted. - ST-09-02 is asked to prepare a V2.0 in the next weeks. Next Steps