Data publication

A data publication is an entity of data with detailed metadata/description and a bibliographic citation. Data publications have the status published & citabel. The citations are automaticaly included in library catalog GetInfo of the TIB. Data publications were intiated through DFG-project STD-DOI. Official data publications of PANGAEA must be submitted for final review to the data librarian. At this time data publications are NOT peer-reviewed; the scientific quality of the content is in the sole responsibility of the author(s).

A data publication may consist of one data set or a collection of data sets, grouped through a parent. Its definition requires:
 * status of (single set or parent) is set to published & citable,
 * a source is added, should be the institute(s) of origin,
 * an extended abstract is included.

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

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