Open Science for Arts, Design and Music/Guidelines/Citation guidelines
Citation guidelines
[edit]- Acknowledging all contributors involved in knowledge creation
Citations are hard currency in academia, a currency that you will never run out of as a re-user. This is a circumstance to keep in mind when deciding which contributions to your work to cite and which only to mention in a first footnote. The following guidelines https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/747 provide you with a step-by-step citation guidelines. It covers both the perspective of the re-user who wishes to keep a clear provenance trail and acknowledge all contributions and contributors to their work as well as the creator/author's perspective who wants to make sure that their work is properly cited.
If you work in a team, adding the CREDiT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to your work can make clear role distributions and responsibilities regarding your output.
- Citing digital resources that are not papers or books (with examples)
Although scholarly work in the 21st century goes way beyond what can be placed on a bookshelf, in reality, such digital scholarly objects are still largely out of sight from research evaluation and recognition. Giving proper citations of them is first, essential step to change this for the better. An obvious golden rule is to follow the "Cite as" information on the landing page. In many cases, digital tools or software are still "gift rapped" to a research paper like in the following case: Csaba Oravecz, Tamás Váradi, Bálint Sass: The Hungarian Gigaword Corpus. In: Proceedings of LREC 2014, 2014.
In the absence of a "Cite as" notice, you can follow the examples below. Importantly, always add a Persisten Identifyer to the citation where possible, so that the citation can be tracked.
| Content type | Schema | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Blog posts | [Authors], "Title" in [Name of the blog], [Date], [URL]. | Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, "10 practical tips to fight against the culture of non-citation in the humanities," in DARIAH Open, 29/02/2020, https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/747. |
| Data (in a broad sense) | [Creators]. (Year of creation). [Title] (version number, if relevant) [Content type] [Name of the repository], [URL, including the Persistent Identifier] | Toscano, Maurizio, & Aitor Díaz. (2020). Mapping digital humanities in Spain - 1993-2019 (v1.0). [Data-set] Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3893546 |
| Corpus | [Creators]. (Year of creation). [Title] (version number, if relevant) [Content type] [Name of the repository], [URL, including the Persistent Identifier] | Truan, Naomi. 2016. Parliamentary Debates on Europe at the House of Commons (1998-2015) [Corpus]. ORTOLANG (Open Resources and TOols for LANGuage). https://hdl.handle.net/11403/uk-parl |
| Software | [Creators]. (Year of creation). [Title] (version number (important!)) [Content type] [Name of the repository], [URL, including the Persistent Identifier] | Strupler, Néhémie. (2018). Project Panormos Archaeological Survey: Data Visualisation Code (survey-analysis) (0.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1185024 |
| Training material | [Creators]. (Year of creation). [Title] (version number, if relevant) [Content type] [Name of the repository], [URL, including the Persistent Identifier] | Marilena Daquino (2022). Polifonia - Making sense of musical heritage on the web. Version 1.0.0. DARIAH-Campus. [Webinar recording]. https://campus.dariah.eu/id/oPe9gFztuJQhQYwGhOtJF |
| Digital cultural heritage resource | [Creators], (Date). [Title] [Holding institution, collection, subcollection as detailed as possible] [Found in (if relevant)] [URL, including the PID or URL + PID] | Gertrude Käsebier, 1905. Happy Days. [Photograph.] Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Sammlung Juhl. Found in Europeana Collection 2048429_Ag_DE_DDB_MKG. CC0, Source: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2048429/item_36FQJ2YT6YSX4LYPEPBEBVEFT6P6G23G.html?q=%22Gertrude+K%C3%A4sebier%22#dcId=1583140820017&p=2 |
Digital assets are worth citing even if not all components of the citation data are known. For instance, we do not only know the creators of certain resarch tools. In this case the citation can look like as follows: OpenCOLLADA. [Research tool] Retrieved Oct 14, 2022 from https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/5mpQoK .
- How this all translates to citation styles?
Needless to say, all citation styles have their own, detailed guidelines covering a rich variety of content types to be cited. By using the open source reference management software, Zotero, you can select and format all your citations from one style to another by one click, or by following his manual.