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Geospatial ML Model Catalog Spec
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Require citation information #6

Closed duckontheweb closed 3 years ago

duckontheweb commented 3 years ago

The citation field in the main model metadata document follows the STAC Scientific Citation extension, which requires that at least one of the fields (doi, citation, publications) must be specified.

I'm opening this issue to discuss whether this requirement is sufficient for the GMLMC spec as well. Is requiring "at least one" of these fields enough? Do we need to specifically require any one field?

HamedAlemo commented 3 years ago

Models (as an object) can have a doi. The doi will naturally generate a citation for the model. So requiring a doi, means a citation should be provided as well. Publication is separate then the model doi.

I suggest requiring doi and citation, and the publication be optional (high recommended). This will ensure that at model is version controlled similar to datasets.

duckontheweb commented 3 years ago

I suggest requiring doi and citation, and the publication be optional (high recommended). This will ensure that at model is version controlled similar to datasets.

I'll open a PR to make both doi and citation required.

The doi will naturally generate a citation for the model. So requiring a doi, means a citation should be provided as well.

Perhaps we should we open an issue to enforce this in the Scientific Extension, as well. It seems like if it's universally true that the presence of a DOI means that a citation is possible then there might be interest in tightening that restriction.