In recent years, the creation of infrastructures for global and unique identification of researchers has been promoted by universities, research institutions, and publishers through the use and implementation of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). In Germany, after a first successful project phase (2016-2019), the project ORCID DE (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) […]
Month: January 2020
Vision 2020
A new year, a new decade. Since our founding in 2009, DataCite has collaborated closely with the research community to expand our services, increase our membership, and promote an open culture of data sharing. As a global leader in the field of research data, we embrace the opportunity to further develop and promote the research […]
Announcing the new Member API
When we launched the new version of the OAI-PMH service in November (@https://doi.org/10.5438/ppth-pz62), and retired Solr (used by the old OAI-PMH service) in December, we completed the transition to Elasticsearch as our search index, and the REST API as our main API. All our services now integrate via Elasticsearch and the REST API, including: MDS […]
Datacite Citation Display: Unlocking Data Citations
Are published datasets actually being cited? It’s a question that must cross the mind of any avid reader of this blog at least once. We have talked about data citation plenty on this blog. Often, though, we talk about the links between academic resources and datasets — the kind of links collected by our Event […]