The project “Publication and citability of primary data” was funded by the DFG from 2003 to 2008. As part of the project, procedures were developed to publish digital research data on the Internet and make it citable. Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and Universal Resource Names (URN) were used as persistent identifiers for Internet resources.

The first DOI for research data https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/EH4_OPYC_SRES_A2 was registered by DKRZ on March 18, 2004. Only a few months later, on 12.09.2006, the first DOI for a dataset was registered at the GFZ https://doi.org/10.1594/gfz.sddb.1003. 

Since 2006, the Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover has been the international registration centre for data publications in the system of the International DOI Foundation. The GFZ Potsdam was one of more than a dozen publication agents who have been registering data publications with their DOI at the TIB Hannover since 2006. As a result of this project, DataCite e.V. was established as an international network of libraries for the publication of data from the natural sciences, medicine and technology.

Time frame

• 01.10.2003 – 30.09.2008

Funding Agency

• German Research Foundation (DFG)

Cooperations

• Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover (Hannover)
• GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (Potsdam)
• MARUM an der Universität Bremen (Bremen)
• DKRZ Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (Hamburg)
• Deutsches Fernerkundungs Datenzentrum (DFD) im DLR (Oberpfaffenhofen)

Publications

• Brase, J. (2004). Using Digital Library Techniques – Registration of Scientific Primary Data. In R. Heery & L. Lyon (Eds.), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (pp. 488–494). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30230-8_44
• Brase, J., and J. Klump (2007), Zitierfähige Datensätze: Primärdaten-Management durch DOIs. In: WissKom 2007 - Wissenschaftskommunikation der Zukunft; 4. Konferenz der Zentralbibliothek, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 6. - 8. November 2007, vol. 18, edited by R. Ball, pp. 159–167, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany. https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/4917/1/Ball_2007.Wisskom.pdf
• Klump, J., Bertelmann, R., Brase, J., Diepenbroek, M., Grobe, H., Höck, H., Lautenschlager, M., Schindler, U., Sens, I., & Wächter, J. (2006). Data publication in the open access initiative. Data Science Journal, 5, 79–83. https://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.5.79
• Klump, J., Huber, R., & Diepenbroek, M. (2016). DOI for geoscience data—How early practices shape present perceptions. Earth Science Informatics, 9(1), 123–136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-015-0231-5

Links

• Projektwebsite: http://www.komfor.net/history.html