1. ACS 2016
Moving research forward
with persistent identifiers
and services
Patricia Cruse,
Executive Director
DataCite

2. Outline What is DataCite? The value and benefits
Core services supporting data sharing
Integration and bringing it together

3. The Problem Data form the foundation of research
Curie notebook
Data form the foundation of research
yet, data are treated as second class citizens
We need reliable and unambiguous access to data
attribution
collaboration and reuse
reproducibility
faster (and efficient) progress
feed future researcher
Automated
Measurement

4. DataCite, providing solutions
Provides technical infrastructure:
create DOIs for research data
develop and adopt services that promote data sharing
integrate with other community services
Provides community infrastructure:
advocate & communicate about the importance of data

5. DataCite snapshot Not-for-profit global initiative
30 members worldwide
> 680 data centers
> 7,100,000 DOIs created
> 6,600,000 resolutions/month

6. DOI = Digital Object Identifier
The centrality of a DOI
an alphanumeric string created to:
uniquely identify/name digital content
serve as a stable, persistent link to that content’s location on the web
DOI = Digital Object Identifier

7. Down in the weeds

8. Good things – DataCite DOIs
Higgs boson - CERN
Gravitational Waves - LIGO

9. Datacite services

10. Search service: American Chemical Society
<search.labs.datacite.org/>

11. Service: creating downstream impact
Query & retrieve metadata (7 million records) via Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
Different metadata formats available
Service is open and free!
Thomson Reuters (Data Citation Index)
Elsevier (Exlibris)
Center for Open Science (SHARE)

12. Search service: content integration
relationship of registered resource and related resource
Link to journal article (Dryad data package is associated with article)
Indicates that there are 6 citations to data package

13. Service: integrating with other services
ORCID / DataCite / Crossref
auto-update
Researchers: (1) use ORCID iD when submitting a dataset (2) authorize DataCite via profiles to update your ORCID record. Data centers: (1) collect ORCID identifiers (2) embed the iD in the published work and include the iD when submitting to DataCite. DataCite: automatically pushes information to the researcher’s ORCID record.

14. Service: integrating with repositories
A searchable catalog of 1,394 research data repositories from around the world in all disciplines,
Many different flavors of data repositories…
Publisher, e.g., Dryad
Sub/Disciplinary, e.g., RKMP
Consortium, e.g., ICPSR
Country, e.g., Research Data Australia
Government, e.g., Data Portal India
Research center, e.g., NASA GES DISC
Instrument, e.g., CHANDRA
General-purpose, e.g., FigShare
Roll-your-own, e.g., DataVerse
University, e.g., PURR

15. Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research
Our goal is to ensure that every researcher, at any phase of their career, or at any institution, will have seamless access to Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for their research artifacts and their work will be uniquely attributed to them
Technical and Human infrastructure
for Open Research

16. establish seamless integration between articles, data, and researchers
THOR Project
establish seamless integration between articles, data, and researchers
EU funded
30-months
Partners
DataCite
ORCID
Repositories (Dryad, Pangaea)
CERN
EBI
plus
PIDs for datasets: DataCite DOIs
PID’s for researchers: ORCID IDs
So it is possible to:
grant credit to authors (through citation)
support reproducible research (through citation)
build new interoperable services

17. Datacite Advocacy & Outreach

18. Advocacy & Communication:
Adapting the message to different audiences:
Data centers, researchers, developers, librarians, publishers, funders
blog.datacite.org
Training events, conferences, workshops, webinars
Knowledge Hub:

20. In sum: working to further data sharing
1. Researchers:
find, identify, and cite research data and other research objects with confidence
3. Journal Publishers:
enable research articles to be linked to the underlying data/objects
2. Data centers:
provide persistent identifiers for datasets, workflows and best practices for data sharing and citation
4. Funders:
help to track the impact of research funding

21. Through technology and communication
DataCite develops and supports methods to…
research data in order to:
locate
establish easier access
identify
increase acceptance
cite
foster reuse

22. patricia.cruse@datacite.org datacite.org Twitter: @datacite
Thank you!
datacite.org