[Rdap] CrossRef or Other DOIs for Data Sets

[Eugene Barsky]

Here @ the University of British Columbia, we are using Datacite to issue
DOIs to all our digital assets (around 150,000 DOIs so far) -
https://open.library.ubc.ca/

We have also developed a GUI to mint any number of DOIs as needed since
Datacite does not have this capability.

We are allowing campus partners (UBC is a very large school with more than
60K students and more than 5K faculty) to work with us to issue DOIs for
their digital assets as well - http://researchdata.library.
ubc.ca/plan/get-dois/)

Happy to answer any questions!

Eugene



On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Sebastian Karcher <skarcher at maxwell.syr.edu
> wrote:

> I'm curious what other people say, but my sense is that using CrossRef for
> Data is fine depending on the (meta)data.
>
> It is more common to use DataCite DOIs for data and the biggest
> advantage would be that the DataCite XML schema can hold richer and
> more meaningful metadata for data than CrossRef's UnixRef. (There are also
> differences in the cost structure, which DataCite basically using a flat
> fee structure and CrossRef charging per DOI).
>
> Whether that's worth it depends on the quality of the metadata curated for
> the and budget constraints if you're already a CrossRef member: it is
> definitely _hugely_ more important to assign a DOI to a dataset at all than
> which RA issues it.
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> Hth,
>
> Sebastian
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> *To:* 'Research Data, Access and Preservation'; rdap at mail.asis.org
> *Subject:* [Rdap] CrossRef or Other DOIs for Data Sets
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> Does anyone feel strongly about using (or not using) a certain flavor of
> DOI for research data sets?
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> We are the CrossRef registration agency for the Smithsonian and we’ve been
> doing publications for years but lately have been approached by scientists
> who want a DOI both for link permanence and citability.
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> Would anyone recommend against using CrossRef in favor of another DOI
> type? And if so, which one(s)?
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> Please pardon my ignorance and let me know if there’s something obvious I
> am missing.
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> Thanks,
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> Alvin
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> Alvin Hutchinson
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> Smithsonian Libraries
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> 202.633.1031
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