2021 was yet another year of the unexpected as the world continues to grapple with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is in times like these that communities pull together to help each other and look for a better future. As such, our year-end-post includes thoughts and perspectives from our members and team around the world.
Metadata
DataCite – GigaScience internship: how to improve metadata completeness
Hello! This is Kelvin, I interned with DataCite remotely in Hong Kong this summer. After this internship, I will continue the last year of my Bachelor of Computer Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. My specialization is in Data Science. Yet this is my first trial of working with metadata, and it […]
What’s in a name: the release of Metadata Schema 4.4
Many things have happened since the DataCite Metadata Working Group last released a new version of its schema in the summer of 2019. Indeed, amongst a long list of transformations brought about by the ongoing global pandemic, the paramount importance of accessing research data has been made clear to all as a requirement to accelerate […]
Are You There, Metadata? It’s Me, the Bibliometrician
In a recent conversation with Dr. Isabella Peters, she mentioned: “From article citation analysis, we know that citation and publication behavior is strongly discipline-dependent. The disciplines dictate where to publish, what to publish, what is okay to be cited, how long it takes to get published (and along with how long it takes to receive citations). […]
Making the most out of available Metadata
Metadata are essential for finding, accessing, and reusing scholarly content, i.e. to increase the FAIRness [@https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18] of datasets and other scholarly resources. A rich and standardized metadata schema that is widely used is the first step, encouraging users to register these metadata (as many of these are optional and not required) is the second step, while […]
MetaDIG recommendations for FAIR DataCite metadata
This is a guest blog post written by Ted Habermann. In this blog post, Dr Habermann introduces the MetaDIG project and how the project recommendations can be applied to DataCite metadata. Since Wilkinson et al. (@https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18) introduced the FAIR Principles, discussions and implementation guidelines have been published in almost every possible context. Most of these guidelines […]
Identify your affiliation with Metadata Schema 4.3
The DataCite Metadata Schema is the basis for the metadata you submit to DataCite. It tells you the available fields and structure for your metadata records. Many of our members have told us that they’d really like to be able to include affiliation information in their metadata in a more structured way. The launch of […]
Upcoming Changes to DOI Content Negotiation
DOI content negotiation is one of the oldest DataCite services, launched in 2012. Content negotiation makes it easy to fetch DataCite metadata in other metadata formats, for example BibTeX or schema.org, or as formatted citation in one of more than 5,000 citation styles. For example: curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" https://doi.org/10.5438/0000-0C2G In 2017 we updated the […]
Exposing DOI metadata provenance
DOI metadata provenance is describing the history of a particular DOI metadata record, i.e. what changes were made when and by whom. This information is now stored and provided via an API for all DOI registrations since March 10, 2019. The following provenance information is now available via a new /activities REST API endpoint: prov:wasGeneratedBy. The […]
DataCite’s New Search
Today we are announcing our first new functionality of 2019, a much improved search for DataCite DOIs and metadata. While the DataCite Search user interface has not changed, changes under the hood bring many important improvements and are our biggest changes to search since 2012. Faster Indexing Newly registered (and tagged findable) DOIs now appear […]