Bagrow & Ahn, "Network Cards: concise, readable summaries of network data" (2022)

James Bagrow and Yong-Yeol Ahn, Applied Network Science 7(1), 84 (2022)
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@article{bagrow2022networkcards,
    title = {Network Cards: concise, readable summaries of network data},
    author = {James Bagrow and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
    journal = {Applied Network Science},
    volume = {7},
    number = {1},
    pages = {84},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {2206.00026},
    primaryClass = {cs.SI},
    doi = {10.1007/s41109-022-00514-7},
    year = {2022},
}

Proposes network cards as concise documentation for network datasets, covering basic statistics, construction, provenance, ethical considerations, and other metadata. The paper provides a schema, templates, examples, and a software package for generating the cards.

Network datasets, Data documentation

The same authors’ textbook Working with Network Data covers the practical side of network data more broadly.