Data licence and use limitations, data citation

[xhoenner]

Currently there's no pop-up window on the AATAMS web app when people download detections through the Tag Detections page. The data committee would like a similar pop-up as the one on Step 3 of the portal

Furthermore, since IMOS only funds some receivers and no tag, additional fields are needed in the CSVs that people download, namely for each detection we need the email address of (1) the person owning the receiver, and (2) the person owning the tag.

That's all I can think of, any suggestion @smancini, @atkinsn, @jachope?

[atkinsn]

I have looked back through my notes - and had a meeting with @jachope and Marian on 7th of May last year. We discussed the need to have a specific AATAMS data acknowledgement page, with a division of whether it was IMOS data or "other". We needed to provide guidance on how to determine the citable party - wasn't clear from current set-up. And therefore do we need to make it clear? So then Jac and I, had a meeting with @xhoenner . We spoke about marking the IMOS data as "IMOS", add a column? identify by project? All others are therefore "non-IMOS". So I am thinking that something would of been generated by Jac at the time to go on backlog??

[jachope]

Thought I commented on this last Wed, but must have not pressed the right buttons - I was in a rush!

Nat's recollection is correct in that we were looking at ways that we could advise users to identify the owners of the AATAMS collections and therefore cite and acknowledge data use correctly. We knew this was going to become increasingly important with other (non-IMOS) data providers. We were discussing the ability to identify a project (see email to Jon & Kate posted below). We were going to load details into the User Guide as for the FY15/16 we had insufficient resources to complete any new feature implementation in the app, the focus would be on bug correction.

At the time Nat suggested that metadata wouldn't be the answer as there is not a metadata record for every collection scenario i.e. ownership and citation requirements. Without the required metadata how would we achieve what Xav is suggesting in the CSV?

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Hi Jac,

The answer is... it depends.

It is not straight forward since the detection data is a combination of both tag data and receiver data, each of which is often owned by different organisations. Aside from that, most things in the DB are associated with a project, as you note. Each project is associated with one or more organisations - so you can derive ownership based on that.

But it depends on how you classify data which is "owned" or comes from a combination of sources.

Let me know if you have more questions about this.

Jon

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From: Jacqui Hope Sent: Friday, 8 May 2015 3:11 PM To: Kate Reid; Jon Burgess Subject: AATAMS - App/database

Hi Kate & Jon,

I am wondering if it is possible to identify either within the database, from reports or within a data download which data is IMOS data or which is not? If it is possible how is it exposed? I am assuming that it is possible to tell based on project i.e. if the project name starts with AATAMS then we would know it is IMOS, but I am thinking there must be another (better?) way?

Thanks Jac

[fjaine]

Hi there,

I have recently received a few inquiries from community members about the right way to reference IMOS, ATF and data issued from the database in scientific papers.

It would be good to add a citation template for users to follow on the web app, somewhere on the Homepage or in a new tab in the left menu maybe?

Something like this (feel free to edit as you see appropriate):

Please acknowledge the IMOS Animal Tracking Acoustic Database in publications using the below wording:

In a manucript: “Data was sourced from the Animal Tracking Database (https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au) of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS, www.imos.org.au) - IMOS is a national collaborative research infrastructure supported by the Australian Government. The database is a central acoustic telemetry data repository maintained by the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility (ATF).”

In a list of references: IMOS [year-of-data-download], Animal Tracking Database, http://animaltracking.aodn.org.au, accessed [date-of-access].

[atkinsn]

Hi Fabrice,

I was going to start by pointing out that we have some of this in a aatams github issue already - but just noticed its this one!

So as you can see above - one of the things we need to achieve in the future is to be able to identify who are the citable parties in relation to data that people download - but I am sure we will get there in the future!

We do currently provide a suggestion citation at the following place (which you have probably seen):

• All animal tracking metadata records associated with the Portal: The citation in a list of references is: "IMOS [year-of-data-download], [Title], [data-access-URL], accessed [date-of-access]." Any users of IMOS data are required to clearly acknowledge the source of the material derived from IMOS in the format: "Data was sourced from the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is a national collaborative research infrastructure, supported by the Australian Government." If relevant, also credit other organisations involved in collection of this particular datastream (as listed in 'credit' in the metadata record).

Based on previous meetings we have a the link to the Acknowledgement page added (at the bottom of the homepage) - https://help.aodn.org.au/user-guide-introduction/aodn-portal/data-use-acknowledgement/, which I helped write, but there isn't a suggested citation there either (you have to follow the link to the IMOS data policy). So I will work with Kate - @kereid to provide a clearer path from this page to both the suggested acknowledgement and citation from this page.

Your suggested "data was sourced...: statement and reference citation may be able to be put onto the homepage and I think the most appropriate place - and good as it also jumps out at you - is the the Acknowledgement box on the home page - above the CAAB reference. BUT before we do this, we need to run this past the IMOS Office and some people here (some of whom are on leave), both for its placement on the homepage (as @jachope and @kereid have worked hard to simplify the process around future edits of this information), and for making it Animal Tracking specific.

So happy to pop along and chat whilst you are still in town, but otherwise, will get back to on the suggested points above.

[xhoenner]

Finalised version as instructed by @fjaine on Sep 20.

1. Change the descriptive text about the database on the web app homepage to read as follows:

The IMOS Animal Tracking Database is a centralised passive acoustic telemetry repository maintained by the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility (http://imos.org.au/facilities/animaltracking/) and the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN, https://portal.aodn.org.au/). The data it contains were compiled from a nation-wide array of over 1,000 receivers and document movements of over 100 marine species within Australian coastal waters between 2007-present.

The IMOS Animal Tracking Facility is one of eleven facilities of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). One of its main objectives is to oversee the development and maintenance of a national marine acoustic telemetry network and a public database for the Australian research community, thereby facilitating regional- to national-scale collaborative research and helping the management of Australia’s marine resources.

Researchers involved in the field of acoustic telemetry are encouraged to join the IMOS Animal Tracking community by sharing their tag and receiver data and metadata, thereby contributing to this critical national infrastructure and benefitting from automated email notifications when their tags are detected within the continent-wide network.

2. The paragraphs below should be added (A) to the web app homepage, into the Acknowledgments box, above the Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) section and (B) as a pop-up window similar in design to the one on Step 3 of the portal when users click on the Export data as CSV in the Tag Detection Download page. Note the link to the attached pdf in the last sentence.

Acknowledging the IMOS Animal Tracking Database:

Any use of the acoustic telemetry data obtained through the IMOS Animal Tracking Database or the AODN portal requires the following acknowledgement and citation:

In the Acknowledgments: “Data was sourced from the Animal Tracking Database (https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au) of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS, www.imos.org.au) - IMOS is a national collaborative research infrastructure, supported by Australian Government. ”

In the Reference List: IMOS [year-of-data-download], Animal Tracking Database, http://animaltracking.aodn.org.au, accessed [date-of-access].

Using data from the IMOS Animal Tracking Database:

For use of the contents of the IMOS Animal Tracking Database, the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility recommends adhering to the Recommended guidelines for using data from the IMOS Animal Tracking Database.pdf.

[xhoenner]

Closing as addressed by https://github.com/aodn/aatams/pull/409.