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Manuscript describing the creation of the data set 'sPlot Open'
https://fmsabatini.github.io/sPlotOpen_Manuscript/
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Privacy of Relevé authors #135

Open fmsabatini opened 3 years ago

fmsabatini commented 3 years ago

wiser-susan commented 8 hours ago in PR https://github.com/fmsabatini/sPlotOpen_Manuscript/pull/131

Does it violate privacy regulations to be providing the names of the Releve author's in a database? I would expect their permission would be required.

fmsabatini commented 3 years ago

In most cases, plots come from published sources, so my feeling is that there's no break in privacy by reporting the author names. When this is not true, I still think it is correct to give credit to plot's authors, but I don't know whether this represent a privacy break. If this is the case, I only see two ways out: 1) delete the field altogether (Bob Peet and Brian Enquist were particularly keen on having it, though) 2) ask all custodians (groan!)