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IAGA-VMOD / IGRF14eval

IAGA V-MOD International Geomagnetic Reference Field 14th generation (IGRF-14) candidate submission and evaluation
https://iaga-vmod.github.io/IGRF14eval/
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Releasing final coefficients #44

Open smithara opened 2 days ago

smithara commented 2 days ago

I imagine we can start with storing the finalised coefficients here under IGRF14eval/data/coefficients:

DGRF_Final.cof
IGRF_Final.cof
SV_Final.cof

We then need to create the various formats that are used for dissemination:

  1. igrf14coeffs.txt (see igrf13coeffs.txt)
  2. IGRF14coeffs.xls (see IGRF13coeffs.xls
  3. IGRF14.shc (see e.g. IGRF13.shc)
  4. ... ?

  5. I think these can be bundled together in one Zenodo archive. It will also be good to put some code used to generate these formats in this repository. I expect to archive this repository on Zenodo as well, so that the final publication can reference both this repo as a software artifact and the final coefficients as a "data" artifact.

(I made a start on the "release process" task list at https://github.com/IAGA-VMOD#release-process)

When I started drafting the Zenodo release (for the final coefficients - reserved DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14012303), I found some things we need to decide:

  1. License I guess this has just been glossed over before, but I think it should be CC0 - basically that it's fully public domain and can be used without citation
  2. Authorship I expect to fill in the list of all the authors here, though I can also add "IAGA V-MOD" itself as an organisation. There is the option to describe different roles both for creators and contributors
ciaranbe commented 2 days ago

Super. Thanks for starting the process and pages. 1) I hadn't come across CC0. We might want to check with the IAGA Executive Committee about that. 2) With regards to authorship, it is a cast of thousands (well dozens) usually so we won't know until the official IGRF-14 paper is released. Can we modify the creator/contributor list at that stage?

smithara commented 1 day ago

I suppose CC BY 4.0 is a likely choice for license, as is used by Kp - it just feels a bit funny to me because in practice these things are used as if they are CC0!