[Developers] Attribution/Citation best practices?

[Raymond Yee]

I agree with Tom that Freebase should support some sort of attribution 
mechanism.  When I upload data, I'd like to have the ability to say 
where I got the data from.  I was thinking that it might be useful to 
cook up a schema to do some attribution that would work for at least my 
own purposes -- but attribution support would be nice to have system-wide.

-Raymond

Tom Morris wrote:
> So I take it that the lack of response means that nothing like this
> exists, at least in written form.  Is it seen as something useful and
> worth developing or is the assumption that Metaweb will do all the
> bulk data loads and can deal with this type of thing as an internal
> matter?
>
> Tom
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Data provenance is key to almost any type of research and good
>> citations/attribution are what allows a researcher to follow the
>> provenance back and figure out whether or not they should trust a
>> piece of information.
>>
>> In looking at what the Bulk Data Operations do, it appears that there
>> some underlying machinery in place to do most or all of what's needed,
>> but I haven't seen any documentation or recommended "best practices"
>> for applications which are doing data loading.
>>
>> What should we be doing to make sure that the data we load is
>> attributed properly?  While it's fun having big numbers against my
>> name on the leaderboard, I'd really like to be able to point at the
>> external data source that was used and include things like the date it
>> was accessed, etc.  Is there a little cookbook entry someplace on how
>> to do this?
>>
>> There's a similar issue for individual data entry.  I bet a lot of the
>> structured data is coming from people transcribing Wikipedia blurbs,
>> yet there's no way for them to indicate this, or the data of the
>> Wikipedia article, as they do the data entry.  I little UI flag that
>> they could click to say "I'm transcribing from Wikipedia" might help
>> resolve conflicting information later.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>     
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