VLIZ Supports Publishing Marine Data with a DOI
The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ, Belgium) has developed a procedure to assist marine scientists in publishing their data with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This formal data publication creates a better traceability of datasets and improves the recognition of the scientific work.
Upon request of marine scientists in Flanders, VLIZ developed an application for the publication of datasets. This in order to make the datasets easy to cite and easy to trace. This procedure implies that:
- an extensive description is given,
- a citation with a DOI (a unique identifier of the dataset) is created, and
- the dataset is made publicly available by the repository.
When a manuscript is submitted for publication it is nowadays often demanded to make the supporting dataset publicly available through an acknowledged repository. As VLIZ is officially recognised to be part of the ICSU World Data System, it can provide this service for all marine scientists in Flanders.
By now approximately five datasets have been provided with a data citation, prior to the publishing of an article.
On the VLIZ website interested scientists can read about how to create a DOI and find the required form.
