By m.vardigan | June 22, 2011
The IASSIST Special Interest Group on Data Citation (SIGDC) met in Vancouver on Wednesday, June 1, with 15 people in attendance. The group discussed ways in which IASSIST members could influence data citation standards and behavior. Suggestions were made to:
- Inventory the resources that the SIG maintains and knows about
- Create a set of simple slides to share with faculty and students; these might include guidelines on citation format with examples but would not endorse a certain format
- Create posters on data citation to hang in prominent places
- Contact bibliographic software companies to make sure they include data as a specific resource type
- Contact style guides – APA, Chicago, MLA – to ensure that they are providing appropriate citations for data and including DOIs
- Create a set of Web pages on this topic on the IASSIST site
- Contact Google Scholar with a list of issues related to data
Joachim Wackerow presented information on ways to make DOIs more machine-actionable. He pointed out that CrossRef has a new project to provide for HTTP negotiation. This would permit the DOI to link to rich structured metadata like DDI in addition to a human-readable metadata record.