Yesterday DataCite and ePIC co-hosted the workshop Persistent Identifiers: Enabling Services for Data Intensive Research. Below is a short summary of the tweets, all using the hashtag #pid_paris. Full room to discuss Persistent Identifiers for Data Intensive Research #pid_paris pic.twitter.com/FVQLx8hYoP — DataCite (@datacite) September 21, 2015 #PID_Paris 130 attendees, 14 speakers (15 mins), 2 sessions, […]
Month: September 2015
Differences between ORCID and DataCite Metadata
One of the first tasks for DataCite in the European Commission-funded THOR project, which started in June, was to contribute to a comparison of the ORCID and DataCite metadata standards. Together with ORCID, CERN, the British Library and Dryad we looked at how contributors, organizations and artefacts – and the relations between them – are […]
Adding References to the DataCite Blog
We launched this blog six weeks ago on a hosted version of Ghost, the open source blogging platform. Ghost doesn’t have all the features of WordPress or other more mature blogging platforms, but it is a pleasure to use. The other alternative would have been to put the blog up on the Drupal-based main DataCite […]
Announcing Data-Level Metrics in DataCite Labs
Last week Jennifer Lin shared information on the Making Data Count (MDC) project on this blog. MDC is a project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to design and develop metrics that track and measure data use – data-level metrics (DLM). Funding for the 12 month project ends October 1st, with a no-cost […]
Using YAML Frontmatter with CSV
CSV (comma-separated values) is a popular file format for data. It is popular because it is very simple: CSV is text-based and any application that can open text files can read or write CSV. This makes it a good fit for digital preservation. We don’t know how many of the datasets in DataCite use CSV […]