Fellowship of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) "PID Reference Model for Versioning Research Data"

Fellowship of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) "PID Reference Model for Versioning Research Data"

To ensure the permanent referencing of digital information objects such as textual publications, research data, research software, and other research artefacts, the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) is essential. The use of PIDs has now been established as part of good scientific practice in the code of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is thus a standard of scientific work in Germany. In light of Objective 3 "Advancing Research Quality and Value" of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), the further development of PID practice represents a crystallisation point that impacts various aspects of Objective 3 but also interacts with work in other objectives of the BUA and its partners. The project "PID Reference Model for Versioning Research Data" deals with the identification and versioning of research data, which are made accessible and reusable in digital repositories, and its impact on referencing and citation in accordance with the FAIR principles, with special consideration of Open Science practices.
The endeavour addresses the challenge that new types of publications, especially research data publications, increasingly question the previous citation practices and the evaluation methods based on them. This challenge arises in particular in relation to versioning of research data publications. The goal of the fellowship at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science (IBI) of the Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin is to develop a cross-disciplinary reference model for the versioning of research data for use in the BUA and its embedding in a PID strategy in the context of Open Science.