DOI Registration for Social and Economic Data da|ra Brigitte Hausstein GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Berlin

Overview on the project Components: Technical implementation, metadata and policy framework Implemented services, demo

GESIS became member of DataCite  start of the pilot project “da|ra”  beta version of the DOI registration system  da|ra metadata schema  da|ra policy  first data set registered  4572 DOI names registered  service open to social science data centres  MoU with the Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)  project “Registration portal for Social and Economic data” started  OECD meta data will be included 02 10

Technical system (SOA) RESOLVING SERVICE DataCite REGISTRY SERVICE DDI SERVICE METADATA STORRAGE PUBLICATION AGENT USER da|ra INFORMATION SYSTEM INDEXING SERVICE searchedit/import INDEXING SERVICE REGISTRY SERVICE DDI SERVICE DOI FOUNDATION

Metadata schema: Goals support the DataCite metadata kernel additionally: domain specific possibilities for retrieval and discovery Social sciences Economics (under development) support German and English metadata to be further developed with publication agents

da|ra metadata schema beta version 34 properties, 16 mandatory compatible to DOI and DataCite Kernel compatible to DDI on study level Metadata: edit, xml import and upload (web interface)

da|ra metadata properties all DataCite mandatory properties dates of Data Collection topic Classification language, last edition, availability status other internally required properties all DataCite optional properties universe, selection method area of collection (repeatable) Collection mode publications (repeatable) links (repeatable) Mandatory properties Optional properties

da|ra policy framework Service Level Agreement (SLA) Basis for the cooperation with publication agents Guidelines & Best practices da|ra policy General policy for the assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI names)

Who? Data Archives Research Data Centers Service Data Centers Future: individual Researchers (via self archiving) What? survey data aggregate data micro data qualitative data Future: pictures, further data formats, scales Register: Who & what?

Citation EVS (2010): European Values Study 2008, 4th Wave, Integrated Dataset. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne, Germany, ZA4800 Data File Version ( ), doi: /