[OSM-Science] [OSM-talk] correct (scholarly) attribution?

[Levente Juhász]

Good question. I personally prefer inserting it in the main text without
putting it in the bibliography (e.g. "a full OSM history dump1 was used "
with a footnote to planet.osm). It still gives the proper attribution.
Otherwise, we might as well start citing all software and tiny pieces of
data as if it was a scientific reference. And I don't think that's the
direction we should go. If OSM was a static dataset with a DOI, I would
cite it no doubt. +1: I don't like "citing" websites pointing to extra
information I might want to mention. I usually insert them as footnotes
unless the journal/conference requires otherwise.

In any case, I believe proper attribution to the project and its
contributors can be given in the main text if that was the original
concern. In addition, most studies that use OSM data explain what OSM is in
more detail anyway.







On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 1:55 PM Jennings Anderson <
jennings.anderson at colorado.edu> wrote:

> This is interesting — putting this out to the science list.
>
> Most research says something like “downloaded the planet file as of <date>
> and then did <type of data analysis>"
>
> But actually citing the database as a source… Perhaps something like:
>
> OpenStreetMap Contributors (2019). OpenStreetMap Data [For a specific
> region if appropriate]. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
> https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
>
> (Or a different URL to wherever you got an extract from)
>
> That’s just one proposed format that I think captures all of the necessary
> information for a complete citation (website-like)
>
> -Jennings
>
> On May 16, 2019, at 11:30 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> if someone writes a scientific paper and wants to reference an OSM data
> set they used, what would be the correct way to do that? Typically such
> mentions contain author and name of the work, and publication place and
> year. Or maybe the web-like "retrieved on ..."?
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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