OSTI will host a two-day DOE Data ID Service Workshop at its Oak Ridge, TN headquarters on September 13-14 to share information about its data registration service and gain a deeper understanding of researchers' data-related challenges, concerns, and needs and how to help address them.

Recognizing the increasingly integral role of scientific research data in the modern science environment, OSTI offers a data search tool and a service for registering datasets with digital object identifiers (DOIs).  Through the DOE Data ID Service, OSTI assigns DOIs to datasets submitted by DOE and its contractor and grantee researchers and registers the DOIs with DataCite, an international organization that supports data visibility, ease of data citation in scholarly publications, data preservation and future re-use, and data access and retrievability.  DOIs can be used to search for datasets on a number of OSTI's DOE scientific and technical information (STI) dissemination products, including SciTech Connect, the principal repository of DOE science, technology, and engineering research information, and DOE Data Explorer, a search tool that provides access to publicly available DOE scientific research data collections and helps researchers retrieve individual datasets submitted by data centers, repositories, and other organizations within the Department.

OSTI provides the DOE Data ID Service to DOE-affiliated researchers at no charge.  In addition, as a member of DataCite, OSTI can assign DOIs to other federal agencies' datasets on a cost-reimbursable basis.

The DOE Data ID Service is a useful tool for increasing access to digital data, as the DOE Public Access Plan noted:  "The Department's Office of Scientific and Technical Information can provide digital object identifiers to datasets resulting from DOE-funded research.  To improve the discoverability of and attribution for datasets created and used in the course of the research, DOE encourages the citation and identification of datasets with persistent identifiers such as DOIs."  

OSTI convened its first DOE Data ID Service workshop at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in April 2016.  OSTI is holding this second workshop to continue its collaboration with current and potential data clients in support of their data research and management needs.  The September workshop will explore common issues, success stories, and researchers' data needs that will help inform and improve OSTI services and products.  Planned sessions include Data in Today's Science, Data Publishing, Discovering Data, Defining Data Types, Software as Data, Obtaining Data Digital Object Identifiers via the DOE Data ID Service, and an Update on DataCite. 

OSTI is sending information about the upcoming workshop to DOE Scientific and Technical Information Program managers, current and prospective DOE Data ID Service clients, members of digital data working groups across DOE program offices, interagency Data ID Service clients and prospects, and other key contacts.  Individuals and groups interested in attending the workshop are encouraged to email DOEDataID@osti.gov for further information.