Support CRediT roles for contributors

[peterdesmet]

Based on comment from reviewer.

Should contributors adopt roles that align with the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy)?

• Conceptualization
• Data curation
• Formal Analysis
• Funding acquisition
• Investigation
• Methodology
• Project administration
• Resources
• Software
• Supervision
• Validation
• Visualization
• Writing – original draft
• Writing – review & editing

[Tim-Hofmeester]

The reviewer mentioned the MeRIT system which builds upon the CRediT system but suggests to be more specific when it comes to the methodology. My translation to camera trap data would be that one could specify the contributor roles more specifically tailored to camera trap studies, e.g., "set-up of cameras", "retrieval of cameras", "classification of images" etc. This would allow for total transparency about what each contributor contributed with. I think such a system would be good, but needs some thinking/development to create useful and complete roles/contributions.

[peterdesmet]

Note that it is possible to indicate in the data who set up each camera in setupBy and who classified each observation in classifiedBy. This is at a much more detailed level than is possible in the metadata/methodology and in my opinion what MeRIT strives to do ("more granularity"). Still, we could also indicate more detailed roles than the five we currently have.

[Tim-Hofmeester]

Note that it is possible to indicate in the data who set up each camera in setupBy and who classified each observation in classifiedBy. This is at a much more detailed level than is possible in the metadata/methodology and in my opinion what MeRIT strives to do ("more granularity"). Still, we could also indicate more detailed roles than the five we currently have.

Great, I had missed that this is already covered by setupBy and classifiedBy! I fully agree that this is better as it is at a more detailed level.