Jan Brase
Research Coordinator
German National Library of Science and Technology
In 2004, the German Research Foundation (DFG) initiated the project “Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data” to increase the accessibility of scientific research data, beginning with the field of earth science. The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) is now established as a non-commercial digital object identifier (DOI) registration agency for scientific research data. So far over 600,000 research data sets have received a DOI name in order to facilitate access and citability.
http://www.tib-hannover.de/en/the-tib/doi-registration-agency/
http://www.tib-hannover.de/en/special-collections/research-data/