We’ve previously shared with you our plans to migrate all of our services from Solr to Elasticsearch. (See for example our 2019 preview [@https://doi.org/10.5438/bckb-qy95] or how we’ve used Elasticsearch to make an improved DataCite Search [@https://doi.org/10.5438/vyd9-ty64]. Elasticsearch is already a key component of DOI Fabrica and of DataCite Search, and we’re in the process of […]
Month: April 2019
DOI Fabrica Form Gets a Facelift
When we launched the DOI registration form in DOI Fabrica last year, we purposely kept it pretty basic. We wanted to get the most-used metadata fields in front of the people who needed them as soon as possible. But it’s always been our intention to expand the form and make it more useful for more […]
Usage Stats for datasets: now available in DataCite Search
Those of you attending the recent General Assembly might have heard us talk about how DataCite is at a crossroads. We’ve spent the last several years building and honing the infrastructure necessary to make it simple for institutions to create and manage DOIs for their data, and our members have created DOIs for a host […]
Exposing DOI metadata provenance
DOI metadata provenance is describing the history of a particular DOI metadata record, i.e. what changes were made when and by whom. This information is now stored and provided via an API for all DOI registrations since March 10, 2019. The following provenance information is now available via a new /activities REST API endpoint: prov:wasGeneratedBy. The […]
Building community: the first 5 years of DataCite
As part of our 10-year anniversary, we want to tell you the story of how DataCite was founded 10 years ago. Therefore, we approached several people ‘who were there’ to tell you their part of the story. This guest blog post is by Frauke Ziedorn, who was TIB’s DOI Service Manager from 2010 until 2015 […]
DataCite’s 10 year anniversary: and the award goes to…
On April 1, DataCite organized its yearly member meeting and General Assembly. This year it was not just a chance to present and discuss DataCite’s current activities, but also a celebration as we look back on 10 very successful DataCite years! Many members – from 4 different continents- joined us, but for those unable to […]