Presenter(s):
Martina Stockhause, IPCC TG-Data (DDC)
Justin Buck, National Oceanography Centre
James Ayliffe, National Oceanography Center
Lesley Wyborn, Australian National University
Joan Damerow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Deb Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Graham Parton, NCAS / STFC
Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union

Primary Convener:
Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union

An ongoing challenge relevant to most research disciplines is the difficulty in citing 100+ digital objects such as datasets, software, samples, and images. Journals require authors to place citations over some set limit into supplemental information, where individual citations are not properly indexed, not linked to the manuscript, nor tracked accurately. Citing these research products is critical to enable transparent and reproducible research and for researchers, institutions, and project managers to trace citations, get appropriate credit, and report impact to funders. A complex citation, or specifically, a Complex Citation Object is a proposed new type of  Digital Object Identifier (DOI) supported by the DOI Registration Agencies that includes, as its primary content, a list of digital objects that support the research, or scholarly product. This includes data, software, physical samples, images, and videos. This does not include the scholarly literature normally included in the Reference section of a paper.  The recommendations have been approved by the international RDA community. The working group invites others to join them as they work towards implementation across the broad research ecosystem.This Town Hall is relevant to all Sections of AGU and beyond including researchers, repositories managers, infrastructure builders, journal staff, and indexers.

Cross-Listed:
IN - Informatics
SY - Science and Society
ED - Education