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Actor

The Actor component represents the experimenter who conducts the experiments. The metadata information about the Actor should include all available public information about the experimenter who actually executed the software of the experiments. Often this person is hidden behind the co-authorship and the metadata should report how to reach the experimenter for further questions. The role identifies if the author is the original experimenter or the reproducer of a run/experiment.

Checklist

  • actor → name
    Description: Name of the Actor.
    Type: Scalar
    Encoding: UTF-8 encoded string of characters (RFC3629); !!str.
  • actor → orcid
    Description: ORCID of the Actor.
    Type: Scalar
    Encoding: UTF-8 encoded string of characters (RFC3629); !!str.
  • actor → team
    Description: Team name of which the Actor is part of.
    Type: Scalar
    Encoding: UTF-8 encoded string of characters (RFC3629); !!str.
  • actor → fields
    Description: List of the Actor's research fields.
    Type: Sequence of scalars; !!seq.
    Encoding: UTF-8 encoded string of characters (RFC3629); !!str.
    Naming convention: nlp/natural language processing, ir/information retrieval, databases, data analytics machine/deep learning, statistics, bibliometrics, information systems
  • actor → mail
    Description: Mail address of the Actor.
    Type: Scalar
    Encoding: UTF-8 encoded string of characters (RFC3629); !!str.
  • actor → role
    Description: Role of the Actor. Can be experimenter if is an original experiment, or reproducer if it is a reproduced experiment.
    Type: Scalar
    Encoding: UTF-8 encoded string of characters (RFC3629); !!str.
    Naming convention: experimenter, reproducer
  • actor → degree
    Description: The academic degree of the Actor. Should be reported by the conventional abbreviations (see examples for the naming convention below).
    Type: Scalar
    Encoding: UTF-8 encoded string of characters (RFC3629); !!str.
    Naming convention: B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
  • actor → github
    Description: URL with the GitHub handle of the Actor.
    Type: Scalar
    Encoding: URI according to RFC2396; !!str.
  • actor → twitter
    Description: URL with the Twitter handle of the Actor.
    Type: Scalar
    Encoding: URI according to RFC2396; !!str.

Example

actor:
  name: Jimmy Lin
  orcid: 0000-0002-0661-7189
  team: h2oloo
  fields:
  - nlp
  - ir
  - databases
  - large-scale distributed algorithms
  - data analytics
  mail: jimmylin@uwaterloo.ca
  role: reproducer
  degree: Ph.D.
  github: https://github.com/lintool
  twitter: https://twitter.com/lintool