New Release of Fabrica: Improvements Inspired by User Feedback

Kristian Garza and Suzanne Vogt Fabrica

We are excited to announce the latest release of Fabrica! We are thrilled to announce that this release includes 13 new improvements that have been heavily influenced by user feedback and user behavior.

At DataCite, we believe in a user-driven design approach and are committed to creating the best possible experience for our users. We want to express our gratitude to all users who have taken the time to share their thoughts and ideas with us. Your input is invaluable and has played a crucial role in developing these changes.

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Welcome our new DataCite Committee Members

Kelly Stathis and Paul Vierkant Call for nominations

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!

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Wellcome Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Partner with DataCite to Build the Open Global Data Citation Corpus

Paul Vierkant Data Citation Corpus, Event, Projects

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 […]

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DataCite Celebrate and Reflect on a Year of Global Community Collaboration

Matt Buys Strategy

As the world emerged from the global COVID-19 restrictions, 2022 will go down in history. When many of us observed the COVID -19 restrictions being lifted, geopolitical unrest, inflation, and tightening of the monetary policy started to have an impact on the global community. Despite these uncertainties, the DataCite community remained resilient and committed to our mission. 

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Updating our metadata schema suggestions process

Kelly Stathis Metadata, Metadata Schema

As a community-driven organization, we believe it is critical that our members shape the DataCite metadata schema. The Metadata Working Group consists of 10-16 community representatives, who work on improving the metadata schema based on what we learn from the DataCite community. For the upcoming metadata schema 4.5, we launched our first community feedback process this fall to gather your input on the draft metadata schema. We’ve also heard that our community would like more involvement in shaping the metadata schema before changes reach the proposal stage. 

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Mind the gap – what to expect when practicing FAIR

Xiaoli Chen FAIR, FAIR Workflows, Projects

Implementing FAIR Workflows: A Proof of Concept Study in the Field of Consciousness is a 3-year project funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. In this project, DataCite works with a number of partners on providing an exemplar workflow that researchers can use to implement FAIR practices throughout their research lifecycle. In this monthly blog series, the different project participants will share perspectives on FAIR practices and recommendations. 

In this post, Xiaoli Chen, project lead at DataCite, reflects on the gap between acknowledging FAIR and practicing FAIR.

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Investigating PIDs for organizations – ORCID DE 2 project successfully completed

Antonia Schrader and Paul Vierkant Guest blog post, ORCID DE 2

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.

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Towards richer metadata – perspectives from three DataCite projects

Kelly Stathis, Xiaoli Chen, Cody Ross and Paul Vierkant FAIR Workflows, IGSN, Metadata, NFDI4Ing, 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.

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