Some simple guidelines for management of HCNC and co-authorship
- HCNC has a decentralized structure, where PIs of the individual projects/groups are responsible for their own projects, but together comprise the steering committee.
- The steering committee meets as necessary to discuss anything necessary for the well-functioning of the entire HCNC project.
- The steering committee makes decisions through unanimous decision.
- The steering committee organizes an annual workshop for inspiration, information, and coordination.
- The steering committee determines matters relating to use of the HCNC database following these guidelines:
- Use of data should at the outset of working on a paper be cleared with those who have collected it, so it can be determined whether acknowledgement or co-authorship is required.
- Data must as a point of departure be shared freely among the various HCNC projects.
- The data will be made public through our Danish and Norwegian partners, following the agreement of the steering committee.
- The data construction team (Danish, Norwegian, or both) must as a point of departure be included as coauthors. They can however choose not to be, and can suggest other members of their teams who should be coauthors.
- If members of the data collection team are not included as coauthors, they should anyway be properly acknowledge/cited.
- Use of related data, in particular the Danish individual level data from Link-Lives and the same for Norway from the Norwegian Historical Data Centre should be acknowledged/cited as per their guidelines.
- Any disputes will be arbitrated by the steering committee.
Attribution
As a starting point, use of the Danish data should involve Christian Møller Dahl, Kristin Ranestad and Paul Sharp as co-authors; use of the Norwegian data should involve the same plus Hilde Sommerseth. However, these individuals may choose not to be co-authors or suggest others from the team who can be co-authors together with them, or instead of them.
- Christian Møller Dahl
- Professor
- University of Southern Denmark
- Kristin Ranestad
- Associate Professor
- University of Oslo
- Paul Sharp
- Professor
- University of Southern Denmark
- Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
- Professor
- University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway