Citation of Versioned Web Pages by PID (Akronym: CiVers)

• Applicant: Dr. Marcel Riedel
• Subject Area: Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies ; Ancient History ; Data Management, Data-Intensive Systems, Computer Science Methods in Business Informatics ; Greek and Latin Philology ; Classical, Roman, Christian and Islamic Archaeology ; Communication Sciences ; Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 537548255

Research data are central components of scientific publishing and must be understood and rewarded as equally citable research products. Research data are usually not recorded and published via conventional forms of publication, but by using research data repositories, subject-specific databases and authority data systems. The use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) is elementary for the metadata-based description, citation and networking of different subject-specific resources within semantic networks ("knowledge graph"). In particular, the DOI-ecosystem, which has established itself as the de facto standard for the persistent identification of research data and scientific publications, has - in its technical and organisational implementation (Crossref, DataCite) - many links to other PID services (ORCID, ROR, Event Data Registry, etc.). The integration of PIDs is a particular challenge in data systems with semantic data models and collaboratively updatable datasets. The aim of this project is to implement a technical concept that enables a pid-supported, persistent citation of resources in such data systems without having to adapt the systems profoundly in terms of software technology and data models. Central components of the project are the development of a reusable information infrastructure software (CiVers) and its exemplary-evaluative installation as a service for the web resources from iDAI.objects (object catalogues) and iDAI.field (excavation documentations). The use of web archiving techniques, the connection to open interfaces for registering DOIs (e.g. at DataCite) and their metadata as well as the continuous extraction of external references from (citation) event data registries are elementary. The extent and quality of resource networking via global information infrastructures strongly depends on the extent to which publication service providers (can) ensure that the relationships between self-distributed and external resources are mapped via machine-readable metadata. In order to improve the effectiveness of the technical components in terms of content, the project is to be flanked by community-related measures dedicated to the evaluation of data citation techniques in the community of ancient studies. The aim is to collaborate with subject-specific initiatives (PID Network Deutschland), consortia (NFDI4Objects, PID4NFDI), information and library services (Propylaeum, GBV) to exchange information on standards and workflows for cross-media citation and to develop joint best practice recommendations.

• DFG Programme: Research data and software (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigator: Henriette Senst