Data Citation & Digital Object Identifiers DOIs

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Digital Object Identifiers 101

Persistent identifier

Identifies intellectual property in the digital environment

Global - journals, data, software...

For citation -> metadata requirements -

Styles• doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.745927 (not Australia)• 10.4225/13/50BBFCFE08A12• http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/13/50BBFCFE08A12• http://doi.org/10.4225/13/50BBFCFE08A12

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Some DOIs words

“Minting” = creating the DOI and attaching it to a recordis free i.e. vow to persistently love, care for and maintain your DOIs & landing pages

one minter per institution (mostly)

= clicking a DOI --> the metadata record (not the data)DOIs resolve to a landing page

= Metadata record~ Query for large datasets query must be persistent

Minting

Resolving

Landing page

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Why DOIs

• Easy and persistent access to online research data

• Disambiguation and accuracy for authors, datasets

• Enhanced discovery, retrieval and management of data to enable data reuse and verification of research results

• Support for automated tracking of data outputs• Indexing services - Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index

• Altmetrics - views, downloads and 'likes’

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DOIs for articles

CrossRef mints DOIs for Journal articles and some datasets

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DOIs for data

ANDS mints DOIs for Australian • research datasets and collections

• software & workflows for research data

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DOIs for computational models

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DOIs connect your profile

Publications DOIs

Data DOIs

DOIs for Software

DOI.org • 64 million registered DOI names• 1 billion DOI resolutions expected in 2013

DOIs for Data • DataCite.org• 2+ million DOIs for datasets

NISO RP-15-2013 Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials• DOIs are recommended for all Supplemental Material types

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Who uses DOIs?

http://www.datacite.org/

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PLAN > CREATE > USE > MEASURE > REWARD

ands.org.au/cite-data/institutions.html

1. Resource planning gather people and skills, infrastructure, support and resourcing

2. Business rules & procedures write policy, guidelines, business rules for identifying citable data

3. Metadata capture (minimum) metadata to form a data citation

4. Data and metadata storage guarantee persistence of data and metadata for the appropriate time for a scholarly record

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PLAN > CREATE > USE > MEASURE > REWARD

ands.org.au/cite-data/doi_q_and_a.html

1. Determine your workflow

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PLAN > CREATE > USE > MEASURE > REWARD

2. Mint - ANDS Cite My Data

ands.org.au/services/cite-my-data.html

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ands.org.au/cite-data/index.html

PLAN > CREATE > USE > MEASURE > REWARD

Questions.... Burning questions

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...How will data citation & DOIs work at your institution?