SPAR ontologies

[jcolomb]

Discussion started with including by-line order in the schema (done in #26), keep it now for discussion about contribution role and spar ontologies.

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How to code order of authors in the byline ? This should also integrate the *these authors contributed equally information, maybe using some more informative elements than a footnote ?

Most schemas I saw do not encode it, but the order of the element signals it.

I could not see anything about co-frisco-firstt authorship elements in jats4r, did I miss it (@hubgit ?)

So far, I only saw crossref integrating an element with indication of sequence = oneof( first, additional, last)(https://www.crossref.org/education/content-registration/descriptive-metadata/contributors/#00009, last is not indicated here, but I did see it in some downloaded data).

[hubgit]

JATS has equal-contrib="yes" on the contrib element:
https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/archiving/tag-library/1.3d1/attribute/equal-contrib.html

[the-solipsist]

I've noticed a shift away from "author" to more granular contributor roles. I know of two projects that define a taxonomy/ontology of such roles:

1. SCoRO, the Scholarly Contributions and Roles Ontology
2. CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy + CRediT JATS xml v1.2 specs

Given that the eventual output might be to JATS or other formats which allow for granular roles, it might make sense to think about how to systematize notation of roles, rather than just order of authors.

As an aside, going through the various SPAR Ontologies might be helpful for the JAMS project.

[jcolomb]

Hello @the-solipsist, thank you very much for your insights. Introduction of CRediT and (maybe later its following ontology CRO (http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/cro.html)) is indeed a major motivation for many of us.

I was not aware of the SCoRO project and SPAR ontologies, do you know who is using/pushing it, in which context and whether it will be consistent with/included in JATS ?

[jcolomb]

working on this in this PR #26, please have a look and comment.

[the-solipsist]

do you know who is using/pushing it, in which context

I'm sorry, but I don't really know much about the uses of CRediT/SPAR (SCoRO) beyond what I've read on their websites.

SPAR has a separate page on community uptake, which includes amongst others:

• BioTea
• DataCite
• Data.open.ac.uk
• Data on the Web Best Practices WG @ W3C
• Europeana Professional
• FAIR* Reviews
• Linked Chemistry
• Nature Ontologies
• OpenCitations
• Pandoc Scholar
• PDFX
• PubChemRDF
• ScholarMarkdown
• Semantic Science
• United Nations System Document Ontology (UNDO)
• US Global Change Information System
• Utopia Documents
• Wikidata

@essepuntato (Silvio Peroni of the University of Bologna) seems to be the best person to contact for info on SPAR.

whether it will be consistent with/included in JATS ?

I found this 2012 blog post / conference paper on mapping of JATS to RDF using SPAR ontologies.

[mjaquiery]

I've suggested in PR #52 a taxonomy-agnostic structure: credits are available that link roles to authors/groups, and those can be defined and described outside the schema (e.g. by tools tied in to particular taxonomies like CRediT). The credits have a 'score', an arbitrary field designed to differentiate the contribution of individuals within the same credit.

Fields could be added to authors or groups for inclusion order, or inclusion order/authorship/bibliographic credit could be an additional object or an extension of the credit objects.

[essepuntato]

Hi all,

Just missed the previous messages, apologies for the late response to this. Please, let me know if you have specific questions on SPAR and related things. In terms of credits, the ontology dedicated to that in SPAR is SCORO (http://www.sparontologies.net/ontologies/scoro).