panMetaDocs, eSciDoc, and DOIDB—An Infrastructure for the Curation and Publication of File-Based Datasets for GFZ Data Services

Abstract

Abstract:The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national laboratory for Geosciences in Germany. As part of the Helmholtz Association, providing and maintaining large-scale scientific infrastructures are an essential part of GFZ activities. This includes the generation of significant volumes and numbers of research data, which subsequently become source materials for data publications. The development and maintenance of data systems is a key component of GFZ Data Services to support state-of-the-art research. A challenge lies not only in the diversity of scientific subjects and communities, but also in different types and manifestations of how data are managed by research groups and individual scientists. The data repository of GFZ Data Services provides a flexible IT infrastructure for data storage and publication, including minting of digital object identifiers (DOI). It was built as a modular system of several independent software components linked together through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by the eSciDoc framework. Principal application software are panMetaDocs for data management and DOIDB for logging and moderating data publications activities. Wherever possible, existing software solutions were integrated or adapted. A summary of our experiences made in operating this service is given. Data are described through comprehensive landing pages and supplementary documents, like journal articles or data reports, thus augmenting the scientific usability of the service.

Supporting the Interdisciplinary, Long-Term Research Project ‘Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Systems’ by Data Management Services

“…The DOI publication is conducted through the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) Potsdam. The GFZ offers a DOI registration service (Ulbricht et al 2016) for GFZ repositories as well as for selected external geoscientific data repositories (e.g. such as TR32DB, TERENO, CRC 1211 Database).…”

Le potentiel des infrastructures d’information pour les données de la recherche

“…Beaucoup d'institutions scientifiques créent actuellement des entrepôts pour accueillir les données de recherche de leurs membres. On a par exemple en Allemagne heiDATA 20 à l'Université de Heidelberg, Open Data LMU 21 à l'Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich ou encore panMetaDocs (Ulbricht et al, 2016) au GFZ, le centre de recherche allemand en géosciences. Pour certaines institutions, comme l'Université technique de Berlin 22 , un entrepôt commun est mis à disposition pour le dépôt de données de recherche, de documents publiés comme d'autres objets d'information.…”

Utilizing the International Geo Sample Number Concept in Continental Scientific Drilling During ICDP Expedition COSC-1

“…These technical tasks are similar to the tasks which DataCite solves with their corresponding DOI registration infrastructure. As we already modified the DataCite registration software in the past for our data publication activities at GFZ Potsdam (Ulbricht et al, 2016), we used our experiences and modified the program sources of the DataCite Metadata Store to be used as GFZ IGSN registry.…”