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Create a config to remove UNF from sample citations #7328

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adam3smith opened this issue Oct 14, 2020 · 0 comments
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Create a config to remove UNF from sample citations #7328

adam3smith opened this issue Oct 14, 2020 · 0 comments
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Component: JSF Involves modifying JSF (Jakarta Server Faces) code, which is being replaced with React. Feature: Metadata Type: Suggestion an idea User Role: Depositor Creates datasets, uploads data, etc.

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adam3smith commented Oct 14, 2020

Following up on discussion here:
https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/UD3k8r8RdVE

From that discussion:

Reasons for retiring UNF

  1. Standardization: UNF is only used by Dataverse repositories. As far as I know, no other repository uses it and UNF (or other hashes) are not included in recommended citations as described by Datacite or the RDA data citation working group
  2. Limited use: UNF applies principally to numeric, tabular data. An increasing amount of data are not that -- this is obviously true for QDR-type qualitative data, but also applies to JSON, GIS-data, all sorts of imaging formats such as MRI data, etc.
  3. False security: Since UNF only applies to tabular files, it gives a false sense of security: a dataset could, e.g., be missing an entire (non-tabular) file or have a scale description reversed in the codebook and still show up with the same UNF

Implementation details

  • this should be a configuration; I'd suggest having UNF turned off by default for the reasons above, but installations may have good reasons to keep it
  • As per @mercecrosas argument, the change should only apply to new datasets, as removing UNF's from existing sample citations may cause confusion. Two margin cases to consider
    1. What about datasets currently in Draft?
    2. What about datasets that are being updated

I think the cleanest solution for both of these is to keep the UNF's, so that the config simply turns UNF off for any newly initiated dataset

@adam3smith adam3smith added this to Papercuts (Smaller issues) in Qualitative Data Repository Oct 14, 2020
@adam3smith adam3smith moved this from Papercuts (Smaller issues) to Implemented at QDR in Qualitative Data Repository Oct 12, 2022
@pdurbin pdurbin added Type: Suggestion an idea Feature: Metadata User Role: Depositor Creates datasets, uploads data, etc. Component: JSF Involves modifying JSF (Jakarta Server Faces) code, which is being replaced with React. labels Oct 13, 2022
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