UK DataCite workshop

This event is an introduction to DataCite for organisations and institutions in the UK. We will explain what DataCite is, what it does and how you can work with us in the UK to assign DataCite DOIs to your research data, making it more easily citable and discoverable. This workshop is aimed at those from central university services that are responsible for research data management at the institution.

The workshop will be lead by the British Library, who provide DataCite services in the UK, and hosted by the University of Glasgow who are signed up to use the service. We will be joined by others who are already using DataCite, including the University of Leeds who will be our case study for the day.

There will also be a hands-on demonstration of assigning DOIs in the afternoon. If possible, please bring along a laptop that will be able to access the wifi so you can try it for yourself.

PROGRAMME

10.00 Registration, tea and coffee

10.30 Welcome Intro
Welcome and introduction from Valerie McCutcheon, University of Glasgow

10.45 Intro to working with DataCite
The DataCite team at the British Library will explain how to get started on assigning DOIs to datasets, covering the DataCite requirements and DataCite metadata schema.

11.15 Applying DOIs to cite data
The DataCite team at the British Library will looked at how DOIs can be applied to data, covering aspects such as versioning, granularity and sensitive data. This is a summary of the discussions and recommendations that came out of Jisc-funded workshops in 2013.

11.45 Case study: University of Leeds
The University of Leeds starting working with DataCite in 2013. Graham Blyth and Gaby Gonzalez-Lopez will describe Leeds’ experience and lessons learned while getting to the point of being able to sign up to use DataCite. Graham is part of the central research data team, while Gaby is a researcher responsible for a repository that is using DOIs.

12.15 Lunch

13.15 DataCite technical services and hands-on demo
A hands-on demonstration of using the DataCite metadata and minting a DOI in the DataCite test-system. If you want to have a go yourself, we recommend you bring a laptop and metadata describing an example of one of your datasets. If there is time, we will also cover the DataCite search API and harvesting with OAI-PMH.

14.45 Final questions & Close

Feel free to have a look through our pages on UK DataCite at http://bl.uk/datasets and come armed with questions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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