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28. July 2010

TIB and DataCite win award

The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) has been awarded the "2010 Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Award" for DataCite, the international initiative for referencing research material.

The aim of the international consortium is to make it easier for scientists to access research data via the internet and to safeguard and ensure worldwide uniform standards when accessing this research data.

This award is given to institutions that promote an improvement of access to information, thereby making the work of scientific users easier. The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative Jury, who gives the award annually, was impressed by DataCite’s international scope and its technical innovation and creativity.

As representative for the TIB, Dr. Jan Brase received the award on 25th July 2010 in Washington as part of the Association of Specialised and Cooperative Library Agencies ASCLA conference.

The association DataCite, founded in December 2009, has set itself the goal of making the online access to research data for scientists easier; promoting the acceptance of research data as individual, referable scientific objects in their own right and in doing so guarantee the adherence to the rules of sound scientific practice.

12 partners from 9 countries have come together under the DataCite umbrella: the British Library, the French L’Institut de L’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST), the Technical Information Center of Denmark, the TU Delft Library from the Netherlands, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), the California Digital Library (USA), the Purdue University (representing the Committee on Institutional Cooperation USA) and the TIB belong to DataCite’s founding members. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS), the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED), the Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences GESIS and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich have been accepted as new members.

For further information about DataCite: www.datacite.org

DataCite is orientated to TIB’s successful work. TIB is the first registering agent for research data worldwide. TIB has already registered around 700,000 research data with a DOI-name since they began in 2005 and in doing so have enabled the simple access to data that can be referred to.

DataCite is an official DOI-registering agent and a member of the international DOI Foundation (IDF). The DataCite’s office is with the TIB in Hannover.