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Topic: Data DOIs in published papers

Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), are persistant links, DOI numbers are an ISO standard (ISO 26324) maintained by the International DOI Foundation as a not-for-profit membership organisation. Membership requires a fee so it’s out of reach for the publications by unfunded organisations but clearly BRC had access to them via Linnaean Society for their excellent series of 50th anniversary publications.
They can be obtained free through Elsevier (well, for data) just by dragging data files onto a panel at https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/create (you will need to be registered for this)
Either way this is an excellent method of drawing attention to datasets within a publication, quoting the DOI amongst the references permits one to attribute Recording Schemes and other uploaders of the data whilst at the same time drawing attention to the value of Global Biodiversity Gateways such as GBIF and our Atlases. In the current climate of publishing (some publishers refusing to publish unless data is made accessible) the profile of these GBGs need to be raised (I've read papers recently in which it's clear the authors are unaware of such data repositories)
Citation managers are capable of incorporating those DOIs (Mendeley, Researchgate) so that any organisation or individual (recording scheme) uploading datasets to the Atlases could be attributed via the persistant DOI link in the citation. Simply assign a DOI to each dataset uploaded, example :
Sumner, D. P. (2016). Diptera Recording Scheme: Nerioidea & Diopsoidea (UK GBG data upload). Retrieved January 1, 2001, from https://data.nbn.org.uk/Datasets/GA000307 DOI ????????? (according to one published citation style)
So can we have a DOI for every dataset uploaded please?