After three years of webinars, online workshops, and virtual member meetings, DataCite Connect Gothenburg finally brought together our community for an in-person meeting co-located with the RDA Plenary 20. We are happy that so many members joined us to connect, learn, and discuss national PID and open research strategies and the role DataCite can play in their development.
Author: Paul Vierkant
Launch of the PID-network Project – Understanding Metadata Workflows
On March 01, 2023, the project “PID Network Deutschland – Network for fostering persistent identifiers in science and culture”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and scheduled to run for 36 months, will start. Partner institutions of PID Network Germany are DataCite, the German National Library, the Helmholtz Open Science Office, the Bielefeld University Library, and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).
DataCite Member Survey 2022
At the end of 2022, we conducted our annual member survey, asking our members about their experience being part of the DataCite community and how DataCite services might alleviate any challenges they are facing. We thank the many members who participated in the survey for sharing their valuable perspectives with us. After analyzing their insights, we are pleased to publish the following summary of the main outcomes.
Welcome our new DataCite Committee Members
We are pleased to welcome new committee members to the DataCite Community Engagement Steering Group, Services and Technology Steering Group, and Metadata Working Group. Following our call for nominations in October, we received many applications from community members seeking to contribute to DataCite’s mission. Below, you can read more about the new members and what they bring to DataCite!
Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Partner with DataCite to Build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus
Aggregated references to data across outputs will help the community monitor impact, inform future funding, and improve the dissemination of research Amsterdam – 17 January 2023 – DataCite is pleased to announce that The Wellcome Trust has awarded funds to build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus to dramatically transform the data citation landscape. The […]
Investigating PIDs for organizations – ORCID DE 2 project successfully completed
As an open infrastructure that is embedded in its community, DataCite is involved in various projects to promote our vision of connecting research and identifying knowledge through persistent identifiers (PIDs). Within the German ORCID DE 2 project, DataCite led the work package on organization identifiers – including ROR. This guest blog post by Antonia Schrader is a crosspost from the ORCID DE blog outlining the achievements of the ORCID DE 2 project.
Towards richer metadata – perspectives from three DataCite projects
Metadata is at the heart of DOIs and open scholarly infrastructure. At DataCite, our metadata schema defines what metadata properties can be included through DOI registration. The schema currently includes just six required properties—identifier (the DOI), creator, title, publication year, publisher, and resource type—along with 14 recommended and optional properties.
On the one hand, requiring only six metadata properties keeps the schema flexible and makes it easy to get started with DOI registration. At the same time, we want to encourage all DataCite Metadata Schema users to go beyond the mandatory properties and to share rich metadata that includes all available information about a given resource. This is especially important for metadata properties that are essential for discoverability—such as description and subject—and building connections between PIDs—including identifiers for related resources, people, and organizations. Keeping metadata up-to-date is also critical to ensure that the “persistent” part of persistent identifiers lives up to its full potential.
DataCite Member Meeting 2022 Recap
This year, we shared insights and news with our members and the broader community in six open sessions and two training sessions that ran throughout the day. A total of 334 participants from 226 institutions in 36 countries attended the sessions, which accommodated multiple time zones.
Communication Comes From Community
To be able to improve what you are doing, it is essential to question the way you have been doing things. As DataCite’s outreach manager, this is what I have been through in the last couple of months. With the DataCite strategic plan 2022-2025 in place, it is important to update the way we communicate with our community. And ask ourselves who our community actually consists of.
Are we still addressing the right stakeholders with the right messages? Here is a short overview of what we have been doing, what we have achieved, and what we will do with it.
New Prefix Assignment Workflow in Fabrica
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.