[Esip-preserve] Recommendations for affordable DOI minting for commercial geospatial data

[Evan Burgess]

Mark and Amber,

Thanks much for these thoughts, this is all very helpful!  We are kind of
in a weird space as a small for-profit startup built off a NASA JPL
research program.  We have a few lingering NASA projects that are firmly in
the academic space, these data are already or will be going to a DAAC.
However, moving forward, most of our data will be entirely separate from
those academic/NASA channels.  It will be paid for by state or private
agencies, with an agreement that the data can be made public.  Most
companies would probably keep this data private, but as a public benefit
corporation we really want the data to benefit all interested parties (of
which there are lots including researchers and other non-paying agencies).
Our plan has been to manage the data archive ourselves, currently the data
is hosted on a public s3 bucket and linked to on our website rather
crudely.  Our interest for adding a DOI is partially a desire to follow
best practice but also so our company can be more better attributed when
the data is used.

Thanks,
Evan

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 4:04 PM Mark Parsons <parsonsm.work at icloud.com>
wrote:

> Hi Evan,
>
> Good on you for wanting your data to be referenced properly!
>
> Is ASO the actual archive for the data or are they ulimately archived by
> NASA or another sponsor? Whoever mints the DOI should recognize that they
> are taking on a responsibility to maintain that DOI. That doesn’t
> necessarily mean that they must maintain the data, but they must ensure
> that the DOI continually links to the current state of the data (whether it
> has been moved, upgraded, deleted, etc). Once you determine who has that
> responsibility it will be easier to determine which DOI service to use. I
> suspect you may be able to tap into a NASA relationship with DataCite.
>
> cheers,
>
> -m.
>
> On May 13, 2021, at 3:14 PM, Evan Burgess via Esip-preserve <
> esip-preserve at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> I work for Airborne Snow Observatories
> <https://www.airbornesnowobservatories.com/>.  We release a lot of public
> geospatial data on snow water resources in California and Colorado.  These
> data consist primarily of gridded geospatial products and pdfs with
> discussion and analyses of these products.  The data is used by both
> academia and operational water management agencies in real-time and is
> available on our website.
>
> We are looking into our options for minting DOIs for each of these
> datasets.  We originally looked at DataCite but found it to be
> prohibitively expensive.  I'm curious if anyone has suggestions for DOI
> minting options that are more cost effective and appropriate for this type
> of data and use case.
> We recently have looked into Crossref
> <https://www.crossref.org/services/content-registration/>, which seems
> much cheaper but I'm unsure if disadvantages may be lurking.  Any advice on
> the matter would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Many thanks,
> Evan
>
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