DataCite is a DOI registration agency that enables the registration of scholarly content with a persistent identifier (DOI) and metadata. This content can then be searched for, reused, and connected to other scholarly resources. But how does the underlying infrastructure enable this? In this blog post, we will describe what we have built to make […]
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DataCite Commons at your service
DataCite and the FREYA project partners are proud to announce the official launch of DataCite Commons today. DataCite Commons is the web interface to explore the PID Graph, formed by the publications, datasets, research software, and other research outputs generated by researchers working at research institutions and supported by grant funding [@ttps://doi.org/10.5438/jwvf-8a66]. The PID Graph […]
The DataCite MDC Stack
In May, the Make Data Count team announced that we have received additional funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for work on the Make Data Count (MDC) initiative. This will enable DataCite to do additional work in two important areas: Implement a bibliometrics dashboard that enables bibliometricians – funded by a separate Sloan grant […]
Powering the PID Graph: announcing the DataCite GraphQL API
Today DataCite launches a new API that powers the PID Graph, the graph formed by scholarly resources described by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and the connections between them. The API is powered by GraphQL, a widely adopted Open Source technology that enables queries of this graph, addressing use cases of our community in ways that were […]
Tracking the Growth of the PID Graph
The connections between scholarly resources generated by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and associated metadata form a graph: the PID Graph [@https://doi.org/10.5438/jwvf-8a66]. We developed this PID Graph concept in the EC-funded FREYA project, and have identified important use cases and technical requirements. In May, DataCite introduced a GraphQL API to standardize and simplify how users can contribute […]
Using Jupyter Notebooks with GraphQL and the PID Graph
Two weeks ago DataCite announced the pre-release version of a GraphQL API [@https://doi.org/10.5438/qab1-n315]. GraphQL simplifies complex queries that for example want to retrieve information about the authors, funding and data citations for a dataset with a DataCite DOI. These connections together form the PID Graph [@https://doi.org/10.5438/jwvf-8a66], and DataCite is working with the other partners in […]
The DataCite GraphQL API is now open for (pre-release) business
DataCite DOIs describe resources such as datasets, samples, software and publications with rich metadata. An important part of this metadata is the description of connections between resources that use persistent identifiers (PIDs) provided by DataCite and others (Crossref, ORCID, ROR, ISNI, IGSN, etc.). Together these resources and their connections form a graph, the PID Graph […]