publisher: Get or Set the Publisher of a Dataset Object

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Get or Set the Publisher of a Dataset Object

Description

The publisher is the entity responsible for holding, archiving, releasing, or distributing the resource. It is typically included in dataset citation metadata.

For software, this might refer to a code repository (e.g., GitHub). If both a hosting platform and a producing institution are involved, use the publisher for the institution and creator() with contributorType = "hostingInstitution" for the platform.

Usage

publisher(x)

publisher(x, overwrite = TRUE) <- value

Arguments

x	A dataset object created with dataset_df() or as_dataset_df().
overwrite	Logical. Should existing publisher metadata be overwritten? Defaults to FALSE. If FALSE and the field exists, a warning is issued.
value	A character string specifying the publisher.

Details

Adds or retrieves the optional "publisher" attribute for a dataset object. This property aligns with dct:publisher (Dublin Core) and publisher (DataCite).

Value

A character string of length one containing the "publisher" attribute. When assigning, the updated object x is returned invisibly.

See Also

Other bibliographic helper functions: contributor(), creator(), dataset_format(), dataset_title(), description(), geolocation(), get_bibentry(), language, publication_year(), relation(), rights(), subject()

Examples

publisher(orange_df) <- "Wiley"
publisher(orange_df)

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