Empowering FAIR Geoscience: How DataCite Enables AuScope EarthBank & Lithodat Platforms

This presentation, Empowering FAIR Geoscience: How DataCite Enables AuScope EarthBank & Lithodat Platforms, was delivered by Dr. Fabian Kohlmann, Managing Director of Lithodat (Melbourne, Australia). It presents how Lithodat and the AuScope EarthBank initiative use DataCite’s services to enhance FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data practices in geoscience. The talk outlines Lithodat’s mission to provide cloud-based, interoperable platforms for spatial geoscience data integration, analytics, and dissemination. It showcases how persistent identifiers (DOIs and IGSNs) assigned via DataCite’s REST API enable transparent, traceable, and reusable data across platforms such as EarthBank, Isotopes.au, and LithoSpace.com. The presentation highlights workflows for data standardization, metadata management, and interoperability with APIs—illustrating how DataCite supports the creation of FAIR digital “twins” in the geoscience community. A recording of the presentation is available on the DataCite YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYJroeoM8kE&t=1691s