<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.625rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Call for Papers: </font><font color="#444444" face="Helvetica" class="">'Special Issue: 20 Years Persistent Identifiers’, Data Science Journal</font><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Helvetica;" class=""> </span></h1><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Persistent identifiers (PID) for scholarly resources have been around now for more than 20 years. Since the initial launch of the <a href="http://handle.net" class="">Handle.net</a> we have seen a proliferation of PID into many use cases. Some PID systems have become established parts of the science information infrastructure, in other areas we are seeing work in progress, and new use cases being proposed. In addition to the PID use cases a number of critical questions arise. These include:</font></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">What progress has been made - what works and what lessons have we learned?</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Are there key gaps in the ways that research outputs are structured, accredited and exposed?</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">How are issues of interoperability between different PID systems to be handled, and what are the implications of doing so?</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">How do we ensure trust in PIDs and their long-term sustainability? What is the relationship between PIDs, metrics and data quality?</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">What are the roles of the various stakeholders, e.g. funders, publishers, researchers, learned societies, repository managers?</font></li></ul><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Areas of discussion in this issue include:</font></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Usage of PIDs within and across disciplines (e.g. earth sciences, life sciences, medicine, digital humanities, cultural heritage)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">New use cases (e.g. provenance, dynamic data, fine-grained access, reference, credit, metrics, quality, standards)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Communities of practice and governance around PID systems</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">New forms of scholarly output, communication, linked data and business models </font></li></ul><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The papers will be published in a special issue on this topic for <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Data Science Journal. </em>Guest editors: Fiona Murphy, Jens Klump, Mark Parsons, Tobias Weigel.</font></div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.625rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">Important Dates</font></h1><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The timeline for the editorial process is:</font></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Deadline for paper submissions: 31 October 2016</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Editors’ decision: 16 January 2016</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Deadline for revisions: 1 March 2016</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc !important;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Publication: Second Quarter 2017</font></li></ul><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Data Science Journal</em> is an electronic open access journal and charges moderate article processing charges (APC) of 350 GBP for full papers [1]. DSJ runs an article-based workflow, so if some authors abide by the deadlines but others don't, the former will still be able to see their papers published online as soon as they're ready. The final issue would be published when all the papers are complete.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">[1] <a href="http://datascience.codata.org/about/submissions/#publication-fees" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px !important; border-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(24, 117, 178);" class="">http://datascience.codata.org/about/submissions/#publication-fees</a></font></div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.625rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">Contact</font></h1><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Please contact one of the Guest Editors for further information:</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Fiona Murphy (<a href="mailto:fionalm27@gmail.com" class="">fionalm27@gmail.com</a>)</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Jens Klump (<a href="mailto:Jens.Klump@csiro.au" class="">Jens.Klump@csiro.au</a>)</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Mark Parsons (<a href="mailto:parsom3@rpi.edu" class="">parsom3@rpi.edu</a>)</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(97, 97, 97); letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Tobias Weigel (<a href="mailto:weigel@dkrz.de" class="">weigel@dkrz.de</a>)</font></div><div class="">
<div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class="">___________________________<br class=""><br class="">Less than FOUR weeks to go to INTERNATIONAL DATA WEEK <a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/" class="">http://www.internationaldataweek.org/</a> and SciDataCon 2016 <a href="http://www.scidatacon.org/site/programme/" class="">http://www.scidatacon.org/site/programme/</a><br class=""><br class="">Recently, we held #datatrieste, the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School: see the programme <a href="http://indico.ictp.it/event/7658/other-view?view=ictptimetable" class="">http://indico.ictp.it/event/7658/other-view?view=ictptimetable</a> and photos <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/145909074@N04/albums" class="">https://www.flickr.com/photos/145909074@N04/albums</a><br class="">___________________________<br class="">Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | http://www.codata.org<br class=""><br class="">E-Mail: simon@codata.org | Twitter: @simonhodson99 | Skype: simonhodson99<br class="">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59<br class=""><br class="">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE<br class=""></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>