Hello CRAWDAD users, It is now possible to cite datasets using DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers). These increasingly popular persistent identifiers should provide stable citation references for use in your papers when you use CRAWDAD datasets. They should also help with anyone who is thinking of contributing data to CRAWDAD, since some funding bodies now require that datasets have DOIs. So for instance you can now cite the latest version of the dartmouth/campus dataset as follows: David Kotz, Tristan Henderson, Ilya Abyzov, Jihwang Yeo, CRAWDAD dataset dartmouth/campus (v. 2009‑09‑09), downloaded from http://crawdad.org/dartmouth/campus/20090909, doi:10.15783/C7F59T, Sep 2009. and you can access the dataset at both <http://crawdad.org/dartmouth/campus/20090909/> and <http://doi.org/10.15783/C7F59T> We also now provide both BibTeX and RIS so that both LaTeX and Word users can cite CRAWDAD datasets easily and accurately. If you are interested in knowing some common data citation errors, and why it is important to cite data correctly, then you might want to see the article that we wrote for D-Lib Magazine <http://doi.org/10.1045/january2015-henderson> If you are interested in knowing more about DOIs then there is lots of information at <http://www.doi.org/> Cheers, Tristan PS it took a while for me to get my head around the issuing (or "minting") of DOIs. So if you notice any weirdness then please shout. -- Tristan Henderson | School of Computer Science | University of St Andrews www: http://tristan.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ | tel: +44 1334 461637 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: No SC013532