How to a non-person resource creator as author?

[gbif-portal]

How to a non-person resource creator as author?

For the citizen science datasets by Natuurpuntwe always addall observersas the last resource creator, to make sure they are acknowledged in the citation of the dataset. To avoid having to split this into a first and last name, we only populateOrganizationwith e.g.all Hemiptera observers`.

This works fine on the IPT:`

Lock K, Chérot F, Libeer R, Claerebout S, Aukema B, Verhoeyen K, Uitterhaegen B, Gielen K, Vanreusel W, Herremans M, Desmet P, Swinnen K, all Hemiptera observers (2017): Waarnemingen.be - Hemiptera occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. v1.1. Natuurpunt. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/dkd0sg

On the GBIF page the observers are also correctly listed as contributor, but unlike the IPT, not listed in the authors of the dataset or the citation:

Lock K, Chérot F, Libeer R, Claerebout S, Aukema B, Verhoeyen K, Uitterhaegen B, Gielen K, Vanreusel W, Herremans M, Desmet P, Swinnen K (2018). Waarnemingen.be - Hemiptera occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. Natuurpunt. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/dkd0sg accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-05-17.

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Can this behaviour be made consistent throughout IPT and GBIF, so non-person creators can be included in the citation, using an empty first/last name and populated organization?

One can argue of course that this type of unnamed contributor should not be added as an author, but I think the benefit of doing so (credit to the contributors) outweigh the disadvantages.

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Side note: Trying to force this information into first and last name leads to undesirable citations:

• populate in first name only => not allowed
• populate in last name only => empty author
• populate as all / Hemiptera observers => Hemiptera observers A
• populate as organization => works fine, but not on GBIF page (see above)

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[MortenHofft]

@ahahn-gbif and @dschigel I believe you were the principal designers of the citation format - this use case might interest you.

[dschigel]

The roles are set for individuals, and if there are any aggregations that act as authors in my opinion would need to be treated as organizations. Think journals - try that with Nature, how this would look like, John Smith, Jack Daniels, and 27 ginger haired sailors 2018?

[peterdesmet]

Ok, but how could a citizen science community then be included? It works for OpenStreetMap contributors so I don't see why this would not be allowed for citizen science datasets citations.

[dschigel]

@peterdesmet, you are right we have examples of that e.g. iNaturalist.org (2018). iNaturalist Research-grade Observations. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ab3s5x accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-05-25. What I meant is that a combination of humans and organizations looks weird and is hard to recommend.