how to cite the "Global Holocene" lipdverse dataset

[chrisdane]

Hi

How should I cite the "Global Holocene" lipdverse dataset https://lipdverse.org/globalHolocene/current_version?

Also, why should I use the temp12k subset (Kaufman et al. 2012) if the global one has more data?

Thanks a lot for any help,
Chris

[nickmckay]

Good question. Let me answer the second on first. If you're looking for Holocene temperature data, you're much better off using the Temp12k dataset which is a bit more updated and much better curated than the Global Holocene, which is a bit of a grab bag at the moment, but that also includes non-temperature records.

If you also need the hydroclimate data, you can use Global Holocene, which is mostly a combination of Temp12k, data used in Routson et al 2018, and Routson et al. 2020, with a few additional records added in.

So for how to cite it. The best solution would be to cite each of the individual records you end up using; the publication metadata are included in each file. Or you could use and cite one or more of the papers that describe the compilations, and then restrict your analysis to those datasets.

We hope to have a better solution for tracking and assigning credit for data reuse, and facilitating citations, but that's still under development.

[chrisdane]

Thanks for your help. I'm afraid citing every time series used in a paper would yield a far too long list ;)

Maybe you could get a DOI for the global dataset? Maybe here: https://zenodo.org/?

Chris

[chrisdane]

May I cite it like this

@MISC{mytag,
AUTHOR = {Nicholas McKay},
YEAR = 2020,
TITLE = {Global {H}olocene {L}inked {P}aleo {D}ata ({L}i{PD}) version 1.0.0},
NOTE = {accessible at: \url{https://lipdverse.org/globalHolocene/current_version}.}
}

?

[nickmckay]

Is this for a paper? If so, and if you can't cite each record, then I suggest you cite Kaufman et al. 2020 for the records that are in Temp12k, and Routson et al., 2019 for the records that are in there, and then cite each of the few remaining records separately.

Please do note that you got the data from lipdverse, just in the acknowledgements, with something like this:

"The LiPD datasets used in this study were obtained from the Global Holocene v1.0.0 compilation at LiPDverse.org (http://www.lipdverse.org/globalHolocene/1_0_0/). The work of data contributors, data compilation project members, and data stewards is gratefully acknowledged.”

[chrisdane]

Ok (the path is without www).

In addition, is it ok if I put something like

The LiPD reference denotes the suffix to the URL https://lipdverse.org/globalHolocene/1_0_0/<LiPD reference>.html, maintained by Nicholas McKay (McKay and Emile-Geay, 2016).

in a caption of a table or in the text?

[nickmckay]

Yes, Right, no www. Good to include the links to where you found the data, but you shouldn't reference McKay and Emile-Geay 2016, since that describes the LiPD format, not the lipdverse.

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