Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University , Portland, OR, USA.
Institute of Ethics, School of Theology, Philosophy and Music, Dublin City University , Dublin, Ireland.
Account Res. 2021 Jan;28(1):23-43. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2020.1779591. Epub 2020 Jun 30.
Assigning authorship and recognizing contributions to scholarly works is challenging on many levels. Here we discuss ethical, social, and technical challenges to the concept of authorship that may impede the recognition of contributions to a scholarly work. Recent work in the field of authorship shows that shifting to a more inclusive contributorship approach may address these challenges. Recent efforts to enable better recognition of contributions to scholarship include the development of the Contributor Role Ontology (CRO), which extends the CRediT taxonomy and can be used in information systems for structuring contributions. We also introduce the Contributor Attribution Model (CAM), which provides a simple data model that relates the contributor to research objects via the role that they played, as well as the provenance of the information. Finally, requirements for the adoption of a contributorship-based approach are discussed.
在许多层面上,为学术作品分配作者身份并认可其贡献具有挑战性。在这里,我们讨论了作者身份概念所面临的伦理、社会和技术挑战,这些挑战可能会阻碍对学术作品贡献的认可。该领域最近的研究表明,转向更具包容性的贡献者方法可能有助于解决这些挑战。最近为更好地认可学术贡献而做出的努力包括开发 Contributor Role Ontology (CRO),该 ontology 扩展了 CRediT 分类法,并可用于信息系统以构建贡献。我们还介绍了 Contributor Attribution Model (CAM),它提供了一个简单的数据模型,通过他们所扮演的角色以及信息的出处将贡献者与研究对象联系起来。最后,讨论了采用基于贡献的方法的要求。