Data Publication Process

Introduction

The data publication process through the Scientific Drilling Database was developed in the context of the project "Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data" (STD-DOI). The project was funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) from October 2003 until March 2009. The aim of the project was to make primary scientific data citeable as publications. In this system, a data set would be attributed to its investigators as authors like it would be done for a work in the conventional scientific literature. Thus, scientific primary data should not exclusively understood as part of a scientific publication, but may have its own identity.

To make primary scientific data citeable as publications, several organisational and technical pre-conditions have to be met:

Quality control of the primary data set by the author and by the data publishing agency,
Quality control of the descriptive metadata set by the author and by the data publishing agency
Long-term availability of the published data in online reporsitories (World Data Centres and GFZ Potsdam)
Search function for data publications in library catalogues (e.g. TIBORDER)
Access to the primary data with assignment of a persistent identifier and resolver system (DOI resolver)

With the beginning of January 2009, the STD-DOI service for the registration of Digital Object Identifiers for data publications has become a permanent service of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB Hannover).This service has now been expanded further by the founding of DataCite e.V., an international initiative to facilitate access to research data. (read more about DataCite).

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