We are happy to announce that we have improved the prefix assignment workflow in Fabrica. Following pillar one of our strategic plan: “Provide easy, efficient and responsive community services to support the needs of our community”, we simplified the prefix assignment workflow. The new process gives more autonomy to our members when setting up repositories in Fabrica.
DataCite Team Retreat 2022
Last week was a very special week for the DataCite team, because we had our first in-person team retreat in over two years! Some of the team members met for the very first time, as eight people joined DataCite since our last full team meeting in Amsterdam early in 2020. As of today, the DataCite team is […]
How to Find a Repository for Your Research Outputs
DataCite Commons—our discovery system based on the PID graph—can be used to search for research outputs, researcher profiles, and research organizations. This holistic search platform enables you to do research and see connections between different entities. However, what if you have outputs you want to deposit in a repository? How would you know which repository […]
Data(Cite) to Improve our World
International Data Week (IDW) 2022 has come to an end, and at DataCite we made sure we celebrated data the whole week! IDW is a community event that brings together the global data community to discuss how to improve research and society through data sharing and reuse. Engaging with the community As part of our […]
Gabi joins DataCite as our new Community Manager
Hello world! This week I joined DataCite in the role of Community Manager. Being a strong supporter of open research and persistent identifiers (PIDs), I’m excited to work with the DataCite team and community to build more openness and trust in scholarly infrastructure. Before joining DataCite, I worked for more than five years at ORCID, […]
Kelly joins DataCite as Technical Community Manager
Hello from Vancouver, Canada! At the beginning of April, I joined DataCite as the Technical Community Manager. I am thrilled to be working with the DataCite team, and look forward to engaging further with the DataCite community in the coming months. At DataCite, my role will lead adoption efforts and engage with the DataCite community […]
Welcome Cody!
Hello from the northeastern United States! I joined DataCite at the beginning of March as an Application Support Engineer, and it’s been a pleasure to immerse myself in the community, technology, and culture at DataCite so far. Like Rorie Edmunds, I have been brought on to support the partnership between DataCite and IGSN. My primary […]
Let’s Fund Open Infrastructure Together
This blog post is cross-posted from the Research Organization Registry blog with a preceding introductory paragraph from DataCite. DataCite together with California Digital Library and Crossref sustain the Research Organization Registry (ROR) operations through expertise in developing open, sustainable, community-driven infrastructure for scholarly communications. ROR is a critical part of the open infrastructure and enables […]
DataCite Member Survey 2021
One year has passed since we shared the 2020 DataCite Member Survey results. So it’s again time to talk about your thoughts on DataCite in general, our services, support, and the DataCite community in 2021. This time we decided to summarize your feedback in short, clear lists. General In 2021, for the fourth year in […]
Introducing Rorie Edmunds, Samples Community Manager
Regular readers of the Blog will already be aware of both the partnership between DataCite and IGSN to transition the IGSN IDs into the DataCite infrastructure, services, and APIs; as well as the support that the work has been given through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. A major component of the grant […]