Data publication

A data publication is an entity of data with detailed metadata and an official bibliographic citation distributed to the library catalog of the TIB. The new type data publication was fully implemented by the DFG-project STD-DOI. Any official data publication of PANGAEA must be submitted for final review to the data librarian !

A data publication requires:
 * status is set to published & citable,
 * a source is added, mostly the institute were the data are originated,
 * an extended abstract is included.

Examples:
 * geological map:
 * collection of bug data:

References:
 * SCOR/IODE workshop on data publishing (UNESCO, 2008)