Analysis of Requirements and Solutions for Issuing Persistent Identifiers (DOIs) in the Brazilian Repository of Biodiversity - SiBBr

The data sharing definitions and openness must consider, additionally, issues of institutional interest, national sovereignty, intra- and extra-country asymmetries and of reciprocity, in order to avoid increasing inequalities in the scientific and technology and population access to knowledge. In biodiversity context, Brazil has a huge relevance once the country occupies almost half of South America and is the country with the greatest biodiversity in the world. SiBBr Repository was developed as the Brazilian national repository of data and information on biodiversity, responsible for organizing, indexing, storing and making available data and information about biodiversity and Brazilian ecosystems, providing subsidies for scientific researches and government management related to conservation and sustainable use. This presentation will cover the results of a case study that aimed to bring out the challenges involved in understanding DOI attribution in biodiversity repositories: How DOI attribution to biodiversity materials in SiBBr can allow a relevant increase in the citations and visibility of Brazilian biodiversity data? Once the relevant context of SiBBr, serving as the Brazilian national GBIF node, it is mandatory to implement best practices in the SiBBr repository, for instance, including better characterization, identification, location and (re)use of data published.