PIDs y Ciencia Abierta: Construyendo comunidad en América Latina

Los identificadores persistentes están jugando un papel clave en impulsar una infraestructura de investigación más sólida e iniciativas de ciencia abierta en América Latina. Este fue el tema principal del evento “Identificadores Persistentes (PIDs) y Ciencia Abierta en América Latina” (#PIDsLATAM23) realizado el 18 de abril en Buenos Aires (Argentina) en el marco de la de csv,conf,v7. Organizado por DataCite, ORCID y ROR, el evento contó con más de 70 personas vinculadas a la investigación en América Latina y otras regiones,  representando más de 40 instituciones diferentes.

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PIDs and Open Science: Building Community in Latin America 

Persistent identifiers are playing a key role in driving more robust research infrastructure and open science initiatives across Latin America. This was a primary theme at the event “Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and Open Science in Latin America”  (#PIDsLATAM23) held on April 18 in Buenos Aires (Argentina) during csv,conf,v7. Organized by DataCite, ORCID, and ROR, the event was attended by more than 70 research stakeholders from across the Latin American region and elsewhere, representing 40 different institutions in total.

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Finding the Proof of the PID Pudding

If you’re reading this blog post, the chances are you’re a bit of a PID enthusiast. You understand the value of PIDs and their metadata, and you advocate for them to be widely adopted and implemented so that everyone can benefit from them. But sometime, somewhere, someone is going to ask you for proof that investing in PIDs is really worthwhile. And, other than anecdotally and/or for small and quite specific use cases, such as this simulator developed by Portuguese funder FCT, that proof has been largely lacking — until recently….

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Happy 10th Anniversary, re3data!

In this post, the authors celebrate the 10th anniversary of re3data, sharing insights about the history, the service itself, and how it has developed over the last decade. We at DataCite would like to congratulate re3data for its persistence in making information about research data repositories available. As a partner service, re3data is an important resource of reliable and high quality information for our services. As a member of the re3data Working Group and the re3data COREF project, we are pleased to contribute to the future of re3data.

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