Citation information for individual datasets is often provided in the metadata. However, not all datasets have this information embedded in the discovery metadata. On a general basis a citation of a dataset include the same components as any other citation:
author,
title,
year of publication,
publisher (for data this is often the archive where it is housed),
edition or version,
access information (a URL or persistent identifier, e.g. DOI if provided)
The information required to properly cite a dataset is normally provided in the discovery metadata the datasets.
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Norwegian Polar Institute’s marine database (https://doi.org/10.21334/marine-db) is organised in the following collections that contain results or metadata from seawater and sea-ice sampling:
- Darwin Core Occurrence records (quantities of an organism relative to a standard volume or area)
- Darwin Core Sampling Event metadata
- Biogeochemistry data
The occurrence (aka. abundance) data is split in the following sub-collections:
The Marine database contains metadata of all pelagic biological and biochemical sampling in addition it contains result of the main biological parameters listed below. The core of the data is from Kongsfjorden which has been sampled yearly since 1995, Rijpfjorden and the ice edge north of Svalbard but it also contains data from the Barents Sea and Arctic Canada. The background data /metadata includes; latitude, longitude, date and time, bottom depth, sampling depth, gear, project, animal group/biota and sample type. The Marine biological database contains result for the following parameters: Pigments (chlorophyll a & phaeophytin) Nutrients Phytoplankton taxonomy Microplankton taxonomy Ice algae taxonomy Zooplankton taxonomy Fatty acid (POM, zooplankton, fish, sea birds, seals) Lipid classes (POM, zooplankton, fish, seabirds, seals) We plan to also include the result of these parameters: Biological silicate Dissolved oxygen Dissolved organic carbon & total dissolved nitrogen (DOC/TDN) Particulate organic carbon & nitrogen (POC/PON) Flowcytometry Stable isotopes (POM, zooplankton, fish, seabirds, seals)