When I started as DataCite Technical Director four months ago, my first post [@https://blog.datacite.org/data-driven-development] on this blog was about what I called Data-Driven Development. The post included a lot of ideas on how to approach development and technical infrastructure. In this post I want to take a second look. While I think the ideas expressed […]
Infrastructure
Overcoming Development Pain
Today DataCite received an email from a user alerting us that there are some small inconsistencies with our recommended data citation format: Creator (PublicationYear): Title. Publisher. Identifier at https://www.datacite.org/services/cite-your-data.html Creator; (PublicationYear): Title; Publisher. Identifier at search.datacite.org Removing two semicolons at data.datacite.org looks like an easy fix, but this is a bit more complicated since the […]
Data-Driven Development
This week I start as the new DataCite Technical Director. While I get up to speed with existing DataCite services and infrastructure, and we start to launch new services (e.g. this blog), this is also a good time to communicate the overall approach I am taking. I like to call it Data-Driven Development, or DDD as […]