Conference on open access and open data

Published by Tom Pollard on 5 October 2010 - 12:00am

On 13-14 December 2010, the Conference on Open Access and Open Data will take place in Cologne. The conference will focus on how the open access movement has developed within the last five years and what is going to happen within the next five to ten years. While “open access” has become daily routine for scientists from many disciplines, access to research data has only recently been put on the agendas of libraries, data centres and research institutions.

NRC-CISTI takes first steps to become data registration agency for Canada

Published by Tom Pollard on 27 September 2010 - 12:00am

NRC’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has become a Member of DataCite. NRC-CISTI is now developing the technical infrastructure to establish iteself as a data registration centre for Canadian datasets. It expects to complete this process by March 2012.

NRC-CISTI has also received funding from the Government of Canada’s Program for International Polar Year (IPY), the largest ever international program of coordinated interdisciplinary science focused on polar regions, to register and assign DOIs to data collected during 2007-2008.

California Digital Library launch EZID (easy-eye-dee)

Published by Tom Pollard on 15 September 2010 - 12:00am

EZID is a service providing researchers and others a way to manage identifiers persistently for datasets, files, and resources of all types. The service is available via a machine to machine programming interface (an API) and as a web user interface.

GESIS registration agency begins DOI service

Published by Tom Pollard on 23 July 2010 - 12:00am

In July, the GESIS registration agency for social science data da|ra officially began its registration service with the assignment of a DOI for a research dataset of the European Values Study (EVS). With this registration the EVS IDS 2008 is now permanently reachable and identifiable via the persistent identifier DOI (doi: 10.4232/1.10059). Since February 2010, Gesis is an official member of DataCite.

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For questions or more information please visit the da|ra homepage at
http://www.gesis.org/dara/

Videos of the DataCite Summer Meeting now online

Published by Tom Pollard on 13 July 2010 - 12:00am

"Making Datasets Visible and Accessible" was the motto of the first DataCite Summer Meeting in Hannover from 7-8 June 2010. Access to research data via the internet took centre stage at the conference which was organised by DataCite and the TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology). The internationality of the more than 100 participants was remarkable: library and information specialists, as well as researchers and representatives from publishers and data centres, had travelled from 12 countries. Below you will find the videos and slideshows of the conference:

DataCite Summer Meeting 2010

Published by Tom Pollard on 7 June 2010 - 12:00am

DataCite invites together with the TIB to the first summer meeting from June 7th to 8th 2010 in Hannover, Germany. The scope of this meeting is to allow data centers from all over the world to exchange experience and workflows concerning the handling of research data. The following subjects shall be covered by international experts:

DataCite at CeBIT 2010

Published by Tom Pollard on 2 March 2010 - 12:00am

DataCite is represented at this year’s CeBIT on the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) stand from the 2-6 March.

TIB’s successful work as the worldwide first DOI registration agency for research data served as the model for the international initiative.

Visit us at the worldwide largest exhibition for Information and Communication Technology at the State of Lower Saxony’s (Niedersachsen) joint stand in Hall 9, Stand B22.

DataCite’s 1st Official Members' Meeting

Published by Tom Pollard on 5 February 2010 - 12:00am

After the founding of the DataCite international initiative in London in December 2009, leading research libraries and information centres converged for the first official members’ convention in Paris.

On the 5th February 2010, the inclusion of five further members was approved in the offices of the International Council for Science (ICSU):

Founding of DataCite

Published by Tom Pollard on 1 December 2009 - 12:00am

World-leading research libraries and technical information centres founded DataCite, an international initiative to facilitate access to research data. Our objectives are to establish easier access to scientific research data on the Internet, to increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scientific record, and to support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study. DataCite will promote data sharing, increased access, and better protection of research investment.

DataCite Memorandum of Understanding

Published by Tom Pollard on 2 March 2009 - 12:00am

Recognizing the importance of research datasets as the foundation of knowledge and sharing a common commitment to promote and establish persistent access to such datasets, we, the signed parties, hereby express our interest to work together to promote global access to research data. Our long term vision is to support researchers by providing methods for them to locate, identify, and cite research datasets with confidence.

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