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DataCite Member Meeting and General Assembly 2017
Laura Rueda
On April 3rd and 4th, fifty DataCite members gathered in Barcelona for DataCite’s annual Member Meeting and General Assembly. The Member Meeting provides a venue for DataCie members to help shape DataCite’s strategic direction. The General Assembly...
Make Data Count: Building a System to Support Recognition of Data as a First Class Research Output
Laura Rueda
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work, this award will result in the launch...
EZID DOI Service is Evolving
Patricia Cruse, Michael Witt & Joan Starr
The California Digital Library (CDL) and Purdue University are adopting a new strategic direction for their EZID digital object identifier (DOI) services to support DataCite’s long-term sustainability and to improve DOI services for the broader community...
The OI Project gets underway planning an Open Organization Identifier Registry
Patricia Cruse
At the end of October 2016, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID reported on collaboration in the area of organization identifiers (Fenner, 2016). We issued three papers (G. Bilder, Brown, & Demeranville, 2016; Cruse, Haak, & Pentz, 2016; Fenner, Paglione...
Welcoming Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to the community!
Laura Rueda
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was founded in 1855 as the first hospital in the United States dedicated to the healthcare of children. It has a tradition of research that has spanned nearly a century. The research breakthroughs at CHOP...
Development Roadmap
Laura Rueda
Over the next several months DataCite will embark on a new development path focusing on member-facing services. Our goal is to provide easy, understandable, predictable, and robust services to create, manage, find, use and track DataCite DOIs to make...
Welcome DataCite’s New Executive Board Members
Patricia Cruse
DataCite is thrilled to welcome three new members to our Executive Board. With their expertise and passion for data sharing, DataCite is poised to make an even more substantial impact on the research data community. The also represent organizations...
Using Schema.org for DOI Registration
Martin Fenner
Two weeks ago we started assigning DOIs to every post on this blog (Fenner, 2016c). The process we implemented uses a new command line utility and integrates well with our the publishing workflow, with (almost) no extra effort compared to how we published...
DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP)
Laura Rueda
The DataCite Metadata Working Group has prepared a DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP) and would love to hear your comments about it! DataCite loves Dublin Core The profile will help you building Dublin Core compatible DataCite metadata...
DataCite is Hiring another Application Developer
Martin Fenner
As DataCite’s Technical Director I am very excited to announce that DataCite is looking for another application developer to strengthen our team. This is an opportunity to work on interesting development work around scholarly infrastructure with a...
A Content Negotiation Update
Martin Fenner
While it is a best practice for DOIs (expressed as URL) to send the user to the landing page for that resource (Fenner et al., 2016; Starr et al., 2015), sometimes we want something else: metadata, e.g. to generate a citation, or to go to the content
Announcing our new DataCite Support Center
Patricia Cruse
New services, APIs, enhanced functions, and even websites can be hard to grasp. At DataCite we understand how difficult it is to get started and stay up-to-date with all the developments in the scholarly communications ecosystem. That is why we decided...