Data citation and DOIs

101 for PhD students, starting their academic career

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What will you learn?• What data citation is, and what the

benefits are.• How to use DOIs for data citation.• How to cite a dataset• How to find publications with DOIs• Link your publications to your dataset

(and vise versa) using DOIs

-claiming your data-DOI’s and data citation explained

Source: http://youtu.be/PgqtiY7oZ6k [4:51]

Why data citation with DOI’s is important

• Recognisable id in science• Authoritave data claim• Persistent link to data• Makes data discoverable

Data citation: example 1

Data citation: example 2

Yang, S., Lui, K., Mayo, S., Tullon, A. (2012) CIPS Sandstone Microstructure. CSIRO Data Collection. http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/08/5045B5990B44

Data citation: example 3

What is a DOI ?• What you see: alphanumeric string (never

changes)• Associated with: location (such as URL)• Accompanied with: who, what, when…

(metadata)

• Stable linking– Data can move, without breaking the link

Benefits of a DOI

Example DOI• String: 10.4121/uuid:57acdc8d-5c86-478a-9ada-

8c075cc30b0a

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

• Location: http://data.3tu.nl/repository/uuid:57acdc8d-5c86-478a-9ada-8c075cc30b0a

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

– Title: High resolution temperature observations to identify different runoff processes

– Publisher: TU Delft

– Publication year: 2011

DataCite

• Growing demand to make data citable.• DataCite is an international consortium whose aims

are:– to establish easier access to research data on the internet– to increase acceptance of research data as legitimate,

citable contributions to the scholarly record – to support data archiving that will permit results to be

verified and re-purposed for future study.• Development of standards, workflows, and best

practices.• 2013: 18 members from 13 countries, 9 associated

members, ~2.2 Million DOIs

What is the value of a data set with a DOI?

• Datasets with a DOI have to be:

• Stable (i.e. not going to be modified)• Complete (i.e. not going to be updated)• Permanent – by assigning a DOI we’re

committing to make the dataset available for posterity

• Good quality – by assigning a DOI we’re giving it our data centre stamp of approval, saying that it’s complete and all the metadata is available

Assignment: Find a paper using its DOI

• doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61345-8

Resolving DOI’s• Open the following DOI site in your browser:

http://dx.doi.org• Enter the entire DOI citation in the text box

provided, and then click Go. • The document that matches the DOI citation will

display in your browser window.

How to get a DOI

• Deposit your datasets with a DOI enabled data repository, e.g. 3TU.Datacentrum

• Deposit your article/paper or thesis at a DOI enabled journal publisher or institutional repository

Link your datasets to your publications

How to use DOIs in your publication for citing your data

• To enhance the visibility and sharing of your datasets, we strongly recommend you to include in your article or dissertation the DOIs you have applied for your datasets.

– Example 1: (at imprint section of the thesis)

Data citation usage: Example 2in References section of the publication

Data citation Example 3:Copy-paste ready in data archive

Copy and paste into your publication

Link your dataset to your ORCID

• ORCID and DataCite Interoperability Network– http://odin-project.eu/ – http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org/

• Link datasets to your ORCID profile

Questions?• contact us at: datacentrum@3tu.nl• website: http://datacentrum.3tu.nl or• website: http://datacite.tudelft.nl

• Follow us on twitter: @3TUDatacentrum

• Watch our short video on persistent identifiers and data citation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgqtiY7oZ6k