WorkshopPersistentIdentifiers,10april 2017Weekv/hDigitaal Erfgoed

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DataCite

• Globalconsortiumcarriedbylocalinstitutions• Focusedonimprovingthescholarlyinfrastructure

arounddatasetsandothernon-textualinformation• Focusedonworkingwithdatacentresand

organisationsthatholddata• Providingstandards,workflows,bestpractice• FoundedDec.1st 2009inLondon

http://www.datacite.org/

DataCite structure

Responsibilities

TheDataCite registrationagency:• Maintainstheresolutioninfrastructure• Maintainsasearchabledatabaseofmetadata• Managestheidentifiersoverthelongterm• Establishesandsharesbestpractice

Publishingagents(datacentres,researchinstitutions):• Contentstorageandaccess• Qualityassurance• Creatingtheidentifier• Creatingandupdatingmetadata

WhatisaDOI?

• Whatyousee:alphanumericstring(neverchanges)• Associatedwith:location(suchasURL)• Accompaniedwith:who,what,when…(metadata)

ExampleDOI

• String:10.4121/uuid:57acdc8d-5c86-478a-9ada-8c075cc30b0a• Htmlversion:http://doi.org/10.4121/uuid:57acdc8d-5c86-478a-9ada-

8c075cc30b0a

• Location:http://data.4tu.nl/repository/uuid:57acdc8d-5c86-478a-9ada-8c075cc30b0a

• Metadata– Creator:Westhoff, M.C.(Martijn)

– Title:Highresolutiontemperatureobservationstoidentifydifferentrunoffprocesses

– Publisher:TUDelft– Publicationyear:2011– Resourcetype:dataset

WhyDOIs?

• Easyandpermanentaccesstoresearchdataviatheinternet

• enhanceddiscovery,retrievalandmanagementofdatatoenabledatareuseandverificationofresearchresults

Benefitsofdatacitation• Includingcitabledatainrelatedpublicationsincreasesthecitationrateofthosepublications

• Routinecitationofdatawillassistingainingacknowledgementofdataasafirstclassresearchoutput

• Citationsforpublisheddata canbeincludedinCVsalongwithjournalarticles,reportsandconferencepapers

• Onlyciteddatacanbecountedandtracked(inasimilarmannertojournalarticles)tomeasureimpact

DataCite and metadata

• Metadatamakedatadiscoverable.• Long-termmaintenanceofmetadataisan

importantpartofthepersistenceofanidentifier.• SchemaisinspiredbyDublinCore.• CorevalueoftheDataCite MetadataSchema:

Linkingbetweendataandrelatedobjects.• (Future)vision:Linksbetweenallrelatedpublications

andobjectshttp://schema.datacite.org/

Metadata

Datacitation(example1)

Datacitation (example 2)

Yang,S.,Lui,K.,Mayo,S.,Tullon,A.(2012)CIPSSandstoneMicrostructure.CSIRODataCollection.http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/08/5045B5990B44

DataCite Netherlands

• Enablesresearchorganisations toassignDOIstoresearchdatasetsorcollections

• Machinetomachineservice• Clientsembedtheservicewithintheirdatamanagementworkflows

• Noaccessibilityforindividualresearchers• UserinterfaceforclientstolistandupdateDOIs

http://datacite.tudelft.nl/

CreatingDOIs

https://mds.datacite.org/

CreateaDOI

CreateaDOI

CreateaDOI

CreateaDOI

HowtouseaDOI?• TherecommendedformatforDOIsisanactivelink,soifyourDOIstarts

withhttp://,simplypasteitintoyourwebbrowser

• YoucanturnanyDOIintoaURLbyaddinghttp://doi.org/beforetheDOI

• ResolveaDOIname:https://dx.doi.org/

• DOIlookup:https://search.datacite.org/ (ifyoudon’tknowtheDOI)

Services around DOIs

Integrated search

Statistics

Service status

Citation formatter

re3data

OAI-PMH

Questions?

Moreinfo:datacite.tudelft.nlwww.datacite.org

Orcontact:m.m.e.desmaele@tudelft.nllibrary@tudelft.nl