Feedback on authorship guidelines

[EKaroune]

Email from Welmoed Out.

Github is @WelmoedO

The email included comments about authorship guidelines:

• "the authorship guidelines are not clear to me. If one deposits a data set or code, does one become an author in the group open phytolith community or active contributor?

We need to make this more clear so that it is easier to understand the distinction between the different groups.

We also need to make it clear that we are currently not creating a repository so the data that can be offered to us is just for FAIR assessment of it as case studies for training the community.

For discussion at a meeting I think.

[cl379]

We can definitely discuss this at a meeting although I think the guidelines are pretty clear as they are and it might be just the person who raised the question who has not really read them properly. It clearly say that you will be a named author if you fulfill the 4 criteria and that open phytolith community will always be the last author. Then the description of who goes into the Open phytolith community says that it includes anyone who has made a named contributions (including "depositing" data or code) so it is pretty clear to me....maybe we should make a chart for people who don't want to read the whole thing? :-)

[jruizperez]

It is pretty clear to me as well but I second the idea of making a chart. Otherwise, we might add a FAQs section (which could also include the chart). Let's discuss it during our next meeting.