DOE Data ID Service
DOE OSTI provides the DOE Data ID Service, which assigns scientific data produced by DOE researchers and DOE contractor and financial assistance recipient researchers. Through the service:
- OSTI assigns and registers DOIs for scientific data as an enhancement to the Department's management of scientific and technical information (STI).
- DOIs are automatically assigned to scientific data records during metadata submission to E-Link, unless a DOI has already been assigned.
- DOIs assigned to scientific data are registered with DataCite to aid in citation, discovery, retrieval, and reuse.
OSTI supports two mechanisms for users to provide information necessary to obtain a DOI for DOE-funded scientific data — a web submission interface and an application programming interface (API).
- Information/metadata describing the scientific data can be provided to E-Link through either mechanism, creating a metadata record and then assigning a DOI to the scientific data.
- The organization submitting the metadata must provide a publicly facing landing page URL to where the scientific data is hosted, have authority to make the scientific data discoverable, ensure the scientific data are managed appropriately, and update the metadata associated with the record and DOI as needed. Additional guidance can be found on the DOI Best Practices page.
The DOE Data ID Service is a useful tool for increasing access to and tracking impact of scientific data, as noted by the DOE Public Access Plan (PDF): "OSTI provides DOIs to data resulting from DOE-funded research when data records are submitted to OSTI (unless a DOI has already been assigned). The use of DOIs as persistent identifiers and the metadata collected through STI reporting enable better tracking of metrics and evaluation of the impact of publicly available data funded through DOE research efforts."
More information on using the DOE Data ID Service can be found in the FAQs.
Contact: DOEDataID@osti.gov
Resources: DOE Data ID Service User Community:- Ames Laboratory
- Argonne National Laboratory
- BGCF
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Energy Technology Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- PEGASUS-III Experiment
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratory
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator