Microcontributions

[suenjedt]

As a young scientists I would like that my contribution to a publication is distinguishable from my cowriters contribution, e.g. that it is clear who contributed to the code, data, analysis etc. [general use case, not specific to CERN]

[mfenner]

Contributor roles, as discussed in THOR? Using for example https://casrai.org/credit/ ?

[svandesandt]

Contributor roles are good. But maybe the publication can be thought as a container. There could be an overall PID for the whole package. And in the package, all components (such as data, software, data representations like figures, the text itself) could have a PID too with own metadata. This way it would be easy to tell who contributed to what part of the project and how the paper was built. So, a young professional could prove his/her value.

[markusstocker]

IMO a mixture of PIDs, contributor roles, and what researchobject.org does. The latter acts as the container. You could associate a PID to it (in the spec it is URI in a more general sense). It relates to items in the package (data, software, figures, text, etc.) and those relations could be qualified with authors, contributor roles, degree of contribution, etc.

[mfenner]

Thanks @svandesandt and @markusstocker. You probably know that Crossref sees the article as the container, what they call research nexus: https://www.crossref.org/blog/the-research-nexus---better-research-through-better-metadata/ .

I think it is fair to say that in terms of credit and attribution that is the current practice, i.e. the data underlying the paper is not citing directly, but rather the article itself.