Introducing GFZ Data Services
Channel: World Data System of the ISC
Date: 2020-10-16

WDS Member Organization: GFZ Data Services

Abstract:
GFZ Data Services is a domain repository for geosciences data that assigns DOIs to data and scientific software since 2004. The repository has a focus on the curation of long-tail data but also provides DOI minting services for several global monitoring networks/observatories in geodesy and geophysics (e.g. INTERMAGNET, IAG Services ICGEM, IGETS and ISG, GEOFON) and collaborative projects (TERENO, EnMAP, GRACE, CHAMP). Furthermore, GFZ is allocating agent for IGSN Global Sample Number, the globally unique persistent identifier for physical samples with discovery functionality of digital sample descriptions via the internet, and developed RI@GFZ - the one-stop discovery portal for research infrastructures and data at GFZ.
GFZ Data Services increases the interoperability of long-tail data through (1) the provision of comprehensive domain-specific data description via standardised and machine-readable metadata with controlled domain vocabularies; (2) complementing the metadata with technical data descriptions or reports; and (3) by embedding the research data in wider context by providing cross-references through Persistent Identifiers (DOI, IGSN, ORCID, Fundref) to related research products and people or institutions involved.
Visiblity of the data is established through registration of the metadata at DataCite and the dissemination of metadata in standard protocols. The DOI Landing Pages embed metadata in Schema.org to facilitate discovery through internet search engines like the Google Dataset Search. In addition, we feed links of data and related research products into Scholix, which allows to link data publications and scholarly literature, even when the data are published years after the article.