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Merritt Digital Preservation Repository Policies and User Guidelines
John Chodacki & Eric LopatinDataCite welcomes Matt Buys as Executive Director
John Chodacki
Earlier this year, we announced the retirement of our Executive Director, Trisha Cruse. After an extensive search, led by DataCite’s Executive Board, we are proud to announce that Matt Buys will join DataCite as Executive Director beginning October...
COUNTER Code of Practice for Data Usage Draft Update
Daniella Lowenberg
Cross-posted from the Make Data Count blog. As a research and scholarly communications community, we value methods to gauge the impact of research outputs, and we do this in the forms of citations and downloads. But, until now this has been limited...
Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come
John Chodacki, Patricia Cruse, Ed Pentz & Laure Haak
The Org ID Working Group has put our time and energy into defining requirements for an open organization identifier and outlining a path forward for launching a project for our communities to leverage. As the working group chair, I wanted to provide...
We'll be rocking your world again at PIDapalooza 2020
Helena Cousijn, Maria Gould, Ginny Hendricks & Alice Meadows
The official countdown to PIDapalooza 2020 begins here! It's 162 days to go until our flame-lighting opening ceremony at the fabulous Belem Cultural Center in Lisbon, Portugal. Your friendly neighborhood PIDapalooza Planning Committee—Helena Cousijn...
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...
Make Data Count and Scholix join FORCE(2018)s
Helena Cousijn & Daniella Lowenberg
DataCite Blog
Make Data Count Update: November, 2017
Daniella Lowenberg
This blog post by Daniella Lowenberg was cross-posted from the Make Data Count blog. The Make Data Count (MDC) project is moving ahead with full force and the team wanted to take a moment to update the research stakeholder community on our project...
New DataCite Metadata Updates Support Software Citation
Joan Starr
The DataCite Metadata Schema 4.1 has been released today. If the 4.1 release has a theme, it is support for software citation. The DataCite Metadata Working Group addressed this topic in response to increasing interest within the community, including...
It’s Time to Make Your Data Count!
Daniella Lowenberg, Amber Budden & Patricia Cruse
One year into our Sloan funded Make Data Count project, we are proud to release Version 1 of standardized data usage and citation metrics! As a community that values research data it is important for us to have a standard and fair way to compare metrics...
CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects
Adrian Turner & Eric LopatinMerritt Digital Preservation Repository, New Collection Intake Form
John Chodacki & Eric LopatinDOIs, Data, and Dedication: DataCite ED Trisha Cruse retires
John Chodacki
It is with mixed feelings that I announce that our Executive Director, Trisha Cruse, plans to retire later this year. I’m sad that Trisha will be leaving us, grateful for all the work Trisha has done for DataCite, but also happy that our friend and colleague will be able to take on new life adventures.
Hear us ROR! Announcing our first prototype and next steps
Maria Gould
What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last month was a big and busy one for the ROR project team: we released a working API and...
Let’s Fund Open Infrastructure Together
Maria GouldDataCite: bringing rigor to the scholarly record
Matt Buys & John Chodacki
DataCite celebrates the recently issued Nelson memo “to make the results of taxpayer-supported research immediately available to the American public at no cost.” This is a significant step in the global policy landscape and will support collective action for change.
DataCite, founded in 2009, was established with a common purpose towards making research outputs and resources publicly available. Today, our community remains committed to our founding principles and works together with a common purpose. Our...