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The IASSIST Special Interest Group on Data Citation (SIGDC) met in Vancouver on Wednesday, June 1, with 15 people in attendance. The group discussed ways in which IASSIST members could influence data citation standards and behavior. Suggestions were made to:

• Inventory the resources that the SIG maintains and knows about
• Create a set of simple slides to share with faculty and students; these might include guidelines on citation format with examples but would not endorse a certain format
• Create posters on data citation to hang in prominent places
• Contact bibliographic software companies to make sure they include data as a specific resource type
• Contact style guides – APA, Chicago, MLA – to ensure that they are providing appropriate citations for data and including DOIs
• Create a set of Web pages on this topic on the IASSIST site
• Contact Google Scholar with a list of issues related to data

Joachim Wackerow presented information on ways to make DOIs more machine-actionable. He pointed out that CrossRef has a new project to provide for HTTP negotiation. This would permit the DOI to link to rich structured metadata like DDI in addition to a human-readable metadata record.

The Australian National Data Service has updated its Guide on Data Citation.

A workshop on Data Citation Principles sponsored by Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS) was held May 16-17 in Cambridge, MA. Presentations and other materials from the workshop are now available.

The IDSC of IZA in Bonn, Germany, along with GESIS and the RatSWD, sponsored a workshop on Persistent Identifiers in the Social Sciences held February 1-2 in Bonn. The presentations are now online at:

http://www.iza.org/conference_files/PeIdSS2011/viewProgram?conf_id=2013

In response to NSF's new requirement for data management plans in grant applications, ICPSR recently rolled out new Web pages providing guidance on how to create such plans effectively: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/dmp/. more...