Introduction to DataCite

Adam Farquhar PhD

Head of Digital Library Technology, The British Library

President, DataCite

June 2010

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Widening gap

No effective way to link between datasets and articles

No widely used method to identify datasets

No widely used method to cite datasets

Articles

Underlying data

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As a result…

Datasets are Difficult to discover Difficult to access Being lost

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Datasets – first class citizens?

Data is difficult to manage after project funding ceases

Informal networks provide the primary means of sharing

Only 21% use a national or international facility

Datasets are not included in impact analysis

Good luck finding it or getting permission to use it (your discipline may vary)

Source: UKRDS Study

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DataCite – an award winning global consortium

DataCite aims to:

Establish easier access to scientific research data

Increase acceptance of research data

Support archiving of data for verification and re-use

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Membership

From Canada to Australia

Currently twelve members across nine countries

Over 800,000 records registered with DOI names so far

AUS Australian National Data Service (ANDS) CAN Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical

Information CH Library of the ETH Zurich DK Technical Information Center of Denmark FR Institute for Scientific and Technical Information GER German National Library of Science and

Technology (TIB) German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Science NL TU Delft Library UK The British Library USA California Digital Library (CDL) Purdue University Libraries Associated Members UK Digital Curation Centre USA Microsoft Research

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Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) offer a solution

Mostly widely used identifier for scientific articles

Researchers, authors, publishers know how to use them

Put datasets on the same playing field as articles

DataCite uses DOIs for Data:DataCite : Data Centres :: CrossRef : Publishers

DatasetYancheva et al (2007). Analyses on sediment of Lake Maar. PANGAEA.doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.587840

URLs are not persistent

(e.g. Wren JD: URL decay in MEDLINE- a 4-year follow-up study. Bioinformatics. 2008, Jun 1;24(11):1381-5).

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Rapid progress builds on foundational work

TIB begins to issue DOIs for datasets

0503.09

06.10

12.09

Paris Memorandum

DataCite Association founded in London

7 members

12 members All members

assigned DOIs Over 800,000

items registered Pilot projects

with Data Centres

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Production services with Data Centres

Shared technical infrastructure

Integrated services with key partners

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DataCite

The DataCite registration agency Maintains the resolution infrastructure Maintains a searchable database of metadata Manages identifiers over the long term Establishes and shares best practice

Publishing agents (data centres, research institutes, publishers) are responsible for Quality assurance Content storage and access Creating the identifier Creating and updating metadata

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Structure

Carries

International DOI Foundation

DataCite

MemberInstitution

Data CentreData CentreData Centre

MemberInstitution

Data CentreData CentreData Centre

… Works with

Managing Agent(TIB)

Member

AssociatedMembers

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Supporting the community

DataCite

Supports researchers by enabling them to locate, identify, and cite research datasets with confidence

Supports data centres by providing workflows and infrastructure to identify and cite datasets

Supports publishers by enabling research articles to be linked to the underlying data

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DataCite Summer Meeting: Making Datasets Visible and Accessible

Explore the issues

Ensure that DataCite takes the right next steps

Strengthen the community of practice across national and disciplinary boundaries

Establish best practice for dataset metadata and citation

Understand roles and responsibilities among publishers, data centres, and libraries

DataCite supports researchers by enabling them to locate, identify, and cite research datasets with confidence

www.datacite.org

adam.farquhar {@} bl.ukjan.brase {@} tib.uni-hannover.de