OpenAtlas

Thank you very much Victoria for this idea and the detailed document.

• The user who creates an entry will be saved as the creator
• Every user who later updates an entry will be tracked as modifier. Note that the change itself isn't recorded, it could even be that nothing changed and someone just clicked the update button.

Global Accreditation¶

One OpenAtlas project, MEDCON, was already archived in ARCHE and you can see what it looks like here: https://arche.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/browser/oeaw_detail/66765. In this case it is possible to credit multiple people and which is worked out in detail in the curation process. Another location for accreditation would be for example your own project site where you already began with this: http://www.connectedclerics.com/.

These are location where people are credited for the whole project and the implementation is done manually (e.g. at the curation process in ARCHE) and are not directly related to the database.

The same goes for the database disclaimer, it would have to be implemented individually where it is used, e.g. at ARCHE (where licensing and similar is already a substantial part of the system) or the planned presentation site where I created an issue (#1314) for that.

Entry Specific Accreditation¶

The information tracked with the software (see above) has definitely it's uses but seems not really be suited for this purpose e.g. there is only one creator and the information cannot be changed. So we would either have to expand the existing feature (e.g. make editing and more creators possible) or would have to implement new features. I will put it up for discussion on our next development meeting and also added some people as watcher for this issue.

Once solved we could implement citation options in e.g. the planned presentation site too.

Sorry, we discussed this at a team meeting but I lost track of this issue. So to summarize the detailed explanation before:

We think the right place for accreditation would be where the results are shown e.g. at the frontend, a project report or at the project description when archived. Furthermore we suggest a more global approach e.g. The data of case study XYZ was acquired by person A and person B.

Please let me know if this would work for you.

Dear Victoria, thank you for your quick feedback. We will keep that in mind for the presentation site and for archiving.