10th Anniversary of minting DOI for data

The first DOIs for data were minted about ten years ago in the context of the project "Publication and Citation of Primary Research Data (STD-DOI)", which was funded by the German Research Foundation DFG. A while ago, Joachim Waechter gave Jens Klump the original study on the feasibility of using DOI for the publication of research data, written in 1998. The study was initiated by Joachim Waechter to assess whether this new tool, Digital Object Identifier, could be used for data publication. The original version of the study is now incorporated into the collection of the GFZ Library. To common knowledge it is the earliest mention of using DOI for data. Keep in mind that CrossRef only went online in 2000.

With a little bit of research Jens Klump managed to trace the author of this study and got her permission to make the study publicly available. The study is now online on the GFZ publications server and can be downloaded. The citation is:

Mundt, M. (1998), Der DOI (digital object identifier) ein verlagsorientiertes Indexierungswerkzeug auch anwendbar auf Datensätze?, Semesterarbeit, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.

http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.misc.370184

Jens Klump would like to thank Michaela Mundt for her permission to share this piece of scholarly communication history, Joachim Waechter for making the study available, and the GFZ Library staff for hosting the electronic version.