In an ideal research world, any scientific content should be citable and the coherent content, as well as the citation itself, should be persistent. However, today’s scientists do not only produce traditional research papers – they produce comprehensive digital resources and collections. TIB’s mission is to develop a supportive framework for a sustainable access to such digital content – focusing on areas of engineering as well as architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics. The term digital content comprises all digitally available resources such as audiovisual media, databases, texts, images, spreadsheets, digital lab journals, multimedia, 3D objects, statistics and software code. In executing this mission, TIB provides services for the management of digital content during ongoing and for finished research. This includes: - a technical and administrative infrastructure for indexing, cataloguing, DOI registration and licensing for text and digital objects, namely the TIB DOI registration which is active since 2005, - the administration of the ORCID DE consortium, an institutional network fostering the adoption of ORCID across academic institutions in Germany, - training and consultancy for data management, complemented with a digital repository for the deposition and provision of accessible, traceable and citable research data (RADAR), - a Research and Development Department where innovative projects focus on the visualization and the sustainable access to digital information, and - the development of a supportive framework within the German research data community which accompanies the life cycle of scientific knowledge generation and transfer. Its goal is to harmonize (meta)data display and exchange primarily on a national level (LEIBNIZ DATA project)

We report on the adoption of persistent identifiers by community-driven geospatial open source communities and their umbrella organisation OSGeo. After a ramp up process, which included the introduction and evaluation of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for OSGeo conference recordings, a growing number of OSGeo project communities have started to adopt DOI for their respective code bases (e.g. MOSS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5825144, GRASS GIS https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5810537), enabling scientific reference and citation for distinct versions of code and also the overall software project code base. In addition, the use of persistent IDs for persons is accelerating. This presentation provides an overview over the latest state of DOI use by projects, lessons learned, emerging challenges (e.g. DOI-based reference for software versions predating the DOI minting) and emerging opportunities for the OSGeo communities (e.g. integration of DOI for code, presentations, manuals and video) and beyond.

Economic and social scientists are increasingly interested in historical data, but many relevant sources are still available in analog form, limiting accessibility and research potential. This article introduces the WBdigital database, which aims to improve this situation. The database provides digital access to the DIW Wochenbericht (1928–1968), including its economic texts and time series data covering both German and international perspectives. These research data offer an ideal framework for investigating important research questions related to historical contexts and current economic challenges. Thus, we hope that the WBdigital database will be a valuable tool for researchers interested in economic history.

This submission reports on the continuing efforts by OSGeo activists within the annual General Assembly gatherings of the European Geoscience Union (EGU). Starting as improvided splinter events, the format soon emerged both into dedicated topical sessions for Open Source within the EGU division of Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI), but also dedicated annual evening events (Townhalls). Further, the format of topical Open Source sessions was quickly adopted also by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). This talk covers lessons learned from past events, current developments and opportunities within ESSI in EGU and AGU, and also new acitivities.