"Making Datasets Visible and Accessible" was the motto of the first DataCite Summer Meeting in Hannover from 7th- 8th 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. The highly-distinguished speakers and lectures/talks given by, amongst others, the OECD, Harvard University and Microsoft Research emphasised the international significance of this first conference on the theme of research data. The evaluation of the appraisal showed particularly positive feedback from the participants. The content and quality of the programme, the selection of speakers and the 'time for networking' were especially identified as 'very good' or 'good'.

Below you will find the videos and slideshows of the conference:

PROGRAM
Monday / 7 June 2010 /14.00–19.30

14.00 Welcome addresses / Uwe Rosemann, TIB
        » video (51.7 MB)
14.15 What is DataCite? / Adam Farquhar, the British Library
        » video (146 MB) / slideshow

Session 1 / Metadata for datasets - More than pure citation information?
14.30 OECD paper on metadata standards for data citation / Toby Green, OECD publishing
        » video (177 MB) / slideshow
15.00 DataCite Metadata Jan Brase, DataCite, TIB
        » video (182 MB) / slideshow
15.30 DDI – Metadata for social science data / Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, Gesis
        » video (195 MB) / slideshow
16.00 Discussion Session 1
        » video (134 MB)

Session 2 / Peer-review systems and the publication of datasets - Ensuring quality
16.30 The ESSD journal - and the data publication process / Hans Pfeiffenberger, AWI
        » video (118 MB) / slideshow
16.45 Data acquisition and data publishing with eSciDoc / Matthias Razum, FIZ Karlsruhe
        » video (125 MB) / slideshow
17.00 Data publishing in the context of the ICSU World Data System (WDS) example PANGAEA / Michael Diepenbroek, marum
        » video (224 MB) / slideshow
17.15 Publication of climate data / Michael Lautenschlager, dkrz
        » video (119 MB) / slideshow
17.30 Towards a data publishing framework for primary biodiversity data / Vishwas Chavan, GBIF
        » video (82.2 MB) / slideshow
17.45 Acquiring high quality research data / Andreas Hense, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of applied Sciences
        » video (164 MB) / slideshow
18.00 Discussion Session 2
        » video (163 MB)

Tuesday / 8 June 2010 / 9.30–18.15

Session 3 / Trustworthiness of Data Centres - A technological, a structural and a legal discussion
9.30 The data seal of approval / Henk Harmsen, DANS
        » video (120 MB) / slideshow
9.50 Criteria for the trustworthiness of data centres / Jens Klump, GFZ Potsdam
        » video (112 MB) / slideshow
10.10 Research data - A funder‘s perspective / Stefan Winkler-Nees, DFG
        » video (263 MB) / slideshow
10.30 Discussion Session 3
        » video (80.6 MB)

Session 4 / Best-practise and examples - What can be done and is done worldwide?
11.00 The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) / Adrian Burton, ANDS
        » video (95.5 MB)
11.30 The Dataverse Network Merce Crosas, University of Harvard
        » video (206 MB)
12.00 The Baseline Surface Radiation Network / Gert König-Langlo, AWI
        » video (152 MB) / slideshow
12.30 Speeding Science-Microsoft Research Solutions for Data Curation / Lee Dirks, Microsoft Research
        » video (155 MB) / slideshow
13.00 The Dryad and DataONE project in the US / William Michener, University of New Mexico
        » video (299 MB) / slideshow
13.30 PANGAEA - data library for the Earth System / Hannes Grobe, AWI
        » video (254 MB)

Session 5 / Visualisation of datasets - More than meets the eye
14.30 Visualisation of data / Jürgen Bernhard, GRIS
        » video (163 MB) / slideshow
15.00 Visualisation of OECD data / Toby Green, OECD publishing
        » video (287 MB) / slideshow
15.30 Visualisation of chemical data / Brian MacMahon, IUCR
        » video (270 MB) / slideshow

Session 6 / Datasets and scholarly journals - A perfect combination?
16.30 Thieme Chemistry and their data strategy / Susanne Haak, Thieme
        » video (188 MB) / slideshow
17.00 Linking data from ScienceDirect articles / IJ. J. Aalbersberg, Elsevier
        » video (200 MB) / slideshow
17.30 The STM view on data publication / Eefke Smit, STM Association
        » video (98.8 MB) / slideshow
17.50 Discussion Session 6
        » video (70.2 MB)

18.00 Conference Closing
        » video (22.0 MB)

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:

- Metadata for datasets – More than pure citation information?
- Peer-review systems and the publication of data sets – Ensuring Quality
- Best-practise and examples – What can be done and is done worldwide?
- Trustworthiness of data centers – A technological, a structural and a legal discussion
- Visualisation of datasets – More than meets the eye
- Datasets and scholarly journals – A perfect combination?

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

After the founding of the DataCite international initiative (www.datacite.org) in London in December 2009, leading research libraries and information centres converged for the first official members’ convention in Paris.
On the 5th February, the inclusion of five further members was approved in the offices of the International Council for Science (ICSU):
Australian National Data Service (ANDS), Australia
Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED), Germany
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Germany
Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST), France
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
There are now already 12 institutions from 9 countries under DataCite’s umbrella who aim to safeguard common standards worldwide in respect of research data, thereby facilitating compliance with the rules of good scientific practice.
Other institutions and countries are welcome to join DataCite.

International Initiative to Facilitate Access to Research Data:
World-leading research libraries and technical information centres founded the international initiative, DataCite. The objectives of this initiative 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.

Founding members from 6 countries came together in London to form DataCite:
the British Library / the Technical Information Center of Denmark (DTIC) / the TU Delft Library from the Netherlands / the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) / the California Digital Library (University of California Curation Center) / Purdue University (USA) and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).

Just as science is global, with individual researchers working and publishing, DataCite will be global, with individual regional partner institutions offering services and advice directly where they are needed by the scientists.

Historically, only a small proportion of research data has been published in scientific journals. Scientific data is often stored in private folders or niche archives. Inaccessibility to research data often results in duplication of effort and allocation of funding to re-create research data that already exist.

DataCite will provide a mechanism to register research datasets and issue unique digital object identifiers (DOI names) to them. Such DOI names are widely used in scholarly publication as a means to link to and cite published research. DOI names have been assigned to over 30 million scientific journal articles. DataCite is following the example of the successful work by TIB as the world‘s first registration agency for research data. Since 2005, TIB has already registered around 700,000 research data objects with DOI names, making access to data easier and at the same time making datasets citable through classic means of citation. Dr. Adam Farquhar, Head of Digital Library Technology, British Library and president of DataCite’s executive board explained: “DataCite is positioned to have a significant impact on the way datasets are recognized and persist in scholarly communication and will help to close the otherwise widening gap between the published record and the data that underlie it.” As an official DOI registration agency, DataCite will be a member of the International DOI Foundation (IDF). The DataCite office will be managed by TIB in Hannover. The partnership‘s long-term vision is to promote unified standards around the world in research data and so to promote adherence to good scientific practice. Other countries and organisations are always welcome to join DataCite.

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.

In order to achieve this long term vision, we will establish a not-for-profit agency that enables organisations to register research datasets and assign persistent identifiers to them. The agency will take global leadership for promoting the use of persistent identifiers for datasets, to satisfy needs of scientists. It will, through its members, establish and promote common methods, best practices, and guidance. The organisations will independently work with data centres and other holders of research data sets in their own domains. As a first step, this agency will build on the approach developed by the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) and promote the use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for datasets.

Signed this day of March 2nd, Paris, France

Uwe Rosemann / Director
German National Library of Science and Technology, Germany
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Wolfram Neubauer / Director
ETH Library Zürich, Switzerland
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Herbert Gruttemeier / Head of International Relations
Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, France
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Adam Farquhar / Head of Digital Library Technology
The British Library, UK
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Mogens Sandfaer / Director
Technical Information Center of Denmark
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Maria Heijne / Director
TU Delft Library, The Netherlands
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Signed this day of June 22nd , Ottawa, Canada
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Pam Bjornson / Director General
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information National Research Council, Canada
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Signed this day of September 1st, Canberra, Australia
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Ross Wilkinson / Executive Director
The Australian National Data Service, Australia
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Signed this day, October 26th, Oakland, USA
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Laine Farley / Executive Director
California Digital Library, USA
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Signed this day, November 18th, West Lafayette, USA
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James Mullins / Dean of Libraries
Purdue University