Coordinated identifier infrastructure enabling Geoscience researchers to meet future directions in scholarly communications Poster at eResearch 2018 conference by: Natasha Simons, Lesley Wyborn, Mingfang Wu, Keith Russell, Jens Klump, Tim Rawling

1. Obtaining Identifiers for Software
Over the last 10 years, the Australian Research Data
Commons (ARDC) and its predecessors have been
building an infrastructure for data citation which
assists researchers to enable FAIR publication of
data and ensure proper recognition and citation of
their data in their own and any subsequent
publications that also use their data.
Australian Geoscience Researchers can obtain information on identifiers for
their software here: https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/citation-
and-identifiers/software-citation.
Obtaining Identifiers for Data
Over the last 10 years, the Australian Research Data
Commons (ARDC) and its predecessors have been
building an infrastructure for data citation which
assists researchers to enable FAIR publication of
data and ensure proper recognition and citation of
their data in their own and any subsequent
publications that also use their data.
Australian Geoscience Researchers can obtain information about identifiers
for their data here: https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/citation-
and-identifiers/data-citation.
Coordinated identifier infrastructures enabling Geoscience
researchers to meet future directions in scholarly communications
The Geoscience Paper of the Future
The Geoscience Paper of the Future was recently
proposed to explain how researchers can fully
document, share, and cite all their research products
including physical samples, data, software, and
computational provenance[1] and enable them to be
FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable
[2]. This requires identifiers for each research product.
1. Gil, Y et al. (2016). Toward the Geoscience Paper of the Future: Best Practices for Documenting and
Sharing Research from Data to Software to Provenance. Earth and Space Science, 3, 388-415.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2015EA000136
2. Wilkinson, M.D. et al. (2016). The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and
stewardship. Scientific Data 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18
Obtaining Identifiers for Physical Samples
The International Geo Sample Number (IGSN), used on
five continents to uniquely identify physical samples,
allows researchers to gain credit for sample collection and
preparation and enable them to trace where other
analytical work is published on samples that they
collected and curated.
Australian Geoscience researchers can obtain access to IGSNs for their
physical samples (specimens) here: https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-
data/citation-and-identifiers/igsn
Fifty years ago, most data that underpinned a publication could be represented in typeset tables, but
with the advent of the digital age and the computerisation of instruments, volumes of data collected
became too large to present as tables in a paper and data became included as a supplement to the
paper accessible by contacting the journal, or else ‘by contacting the author’. Such approaches limit the
ability to test the veracity and reproducibility of a publication and do not guarantee accessibility and
persistence of input research artefacts. The Geoscience Paper of the Future has been proposed and the
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and AuScope have been working together to make access to
identifiers easier for Geoscience researchers.
Natasha Simons1, Julia Martin2, Mingfang Wu3, Adrian Burton4, Jens Klump5, Keith Russell6, Gerry Ryder7, Lesley Wyborn8, Tim Rawling9
1Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Brisbane, Australia natasha.simons@ardc.edu.au; 2ARDC, Canberra, Australia Julia.Martin@ardc.edu.au; 3ARDC, Melbourne,
Australia Mingfang.Wu@ardc.edu.au; 4ARDC, Brisbane, Australia Adrian.Burton@ardc.edu.au; 5CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia, jens.klump@csiro.au; 6ARDC,
Melbourne, Australia, Keith.Russell@ardc.edu.au; 7ARDC, Adelaide, Australia, gerry.ryder@ardc.edu.au; 8 National Computational Infrastructure, ANU, Canberra, Australia,
Lesley.Wyborn@anu.edu.au; 9AuScope, Melbourne Tim.Rawling@unimelb.edu.au
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Software, in source code or compiled form, is
pervasive in Research. software should be cited in a
similar fashion to data and research papers. ARDC
have developed guidelines for citing software based
on international recommendations of FORCE 11
software citation principals, DataCite, CodeMeta, and
others.
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