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Geospatial ML Model Catalog Spec
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Is author field needed? #7

Closed duckontheweb closed 3 years ago

duckontheweb commented 3 years ago

The spec currently has both an author field and a citation field. The only additional information that the author field provides over citation is a contact email and (optional) organization.

This issue is being opened to discuss the value of the author field. Does it provide useful information above and beyond the other fields? If so, is the current definition sufficient or does it need changes?

HamedAlemo commented 3 years ago

Contact is essential to have (I think on STAC collections contact is also required, I may be wrong though). So one suggestion is to change the author field to contact, and require a ContactName and ContactEmail. I agree that author is duplicate with the citation/doi.

duckontheweb commented 3 years ago

So one suggestion is to change the author field to contact, and require a ContactName and ContactEmail. I agree that author is duplicate with the citation/doi.

I like this. In addition to reducing the redundancy with the citation field I think it makes the intention more clear.