[OSGeo-Standards] DOIs for Datasets

[Peter Löwe]

Hello Joanna, all,

maybe useful: DOI allow to reference different versions of a data (or software) publication.

Depending on your use case this might be a desirable feature - or irrelevant:

If the initial publication of the dataset is followed by publications of new versions of the dataset, these trigger the minting of additional "version-DOI", which are tied to the initial data publication. All versions of the dataset together can be referenced by the "concept-DOI".

This allows to cite either the dataset as a whole, or a particular release, in scientific literature.

When a DOI-referenced dataset is cited in a scientific publication which itself has a DOI (Open Access or other), this can be
tracked via the CrossRef.

This apporach is being used by a growing number of OSGeo projects, which have minted DOI for their codebases. The software-repositories are GitHub-based, with automated (version-)DOI-minting through the Zenodo data repository.

More info on DOI use by OSGeo-Projects here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI#DOI_available_for_OSGeo_Projects



Best,
Peter
<peter.loewe at gmx.de>