[Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora

[Christian Pietsch]

Dear all,

traditionally, corpus authors have indicated in the accomanying
documentation how they prefer to receive credit for this data
publication, usually indicating one or more research papers one of
which you should cite when publishing work that used this corpus.

This has not been an ideal situation because many corpus users ignored
this wish when it came to publishing results. Recently, corpora and
other research data collections are increasingly recognised by funding
bodies etc. as publications in their own right, namely as data
publications that can and should be cited directly.

There is an international consortium of research organisations called
DataCite <http://www.datacite.org/> which assigns DOIs (digital object
identifier) to research datasets to make them more easily citable. As
a creator of a dataset, you do not usually contact DataCite directly
but a subject-specific publication agent or a service at your
institution. Your academic library should be able to help you get your
data DOI, and perhaps they can even provide persistent data storage.

DataCite does not store the research data itself, just the metadata.
If you need a service that offers both, FigShare <http://figshare.com>
is a good option. Despite the name, they are happy to accept other
date besides figures provided that they are licensed under the liberal
CC0 Creative Commons license. They also hand out a free DOI.

If you have more questions, feel free to ask. I am involved in
creating a technical infrastructure at Bielefeld University for
registering research data with DataCite.

Cheers
Christian

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  Christian Pietsch · http://purl.org/net/pietsch
  LibTec · Library Technology and Knowledge Management
  Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany

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