As DataCite marks 15 years, we not only celebrate our achievements but also reflect on our journey of growth and resilience. Since our 10th anniversary, DataCite has evolved in remarkable ways. We now stand as a more inclusive and responsive membership organization, serving a global community of research institutions, from universities and libraries to funding bodies and national research organizations.

This is a guest blog post by Dawid Potgieter. Dawid leads the TWCF-funded Accelerating the Reach of Research on Consciousness (ARRC) project and shares some of the insights from the project in this blog post. Beyond Journal Articles: How PID Graphs Could Revolutionize Research Reporting In today’s academic landscape, journal articles are the primary way researchers share their work.

Through the partnership between DataCite and IGSN e.V., DataCite services can be used to register International Generic Sample Numbers (IGSN IDs) for material samples. The blog series ‘IGSN ID Implementation Exemplars’ showcases sample management workflows developed by the community that incorporate IGSN ID registration. In each post, we offer practical guidance on how to work alongside disciplinary sample experts to register IGSN IDs within DataCite services.

Following the IGSN–DataCite partnership, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and AuScope in Australia have been working in parallel to develop sample management systems that include IGSN ID registration. The CSIRO and AuScope systems are based on different repository platforms: Specify versus CKAN. The systems also have different audiences/remits: an internal sample management for national collections versus an open researcher catalogue. Here, we present both to enable the community to compare and contrast these systems.

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The last weeks have been very busy, engaging with the DataCite community across the world. Today I’m thrilled to share the outcome of our DataCite Connect events.

The Persistent Identifiers for Projects Community Dialogue, hosted by DataCite and Metadata Game Changers, brought together a diverse group of experts to explore how PIDs can transform the identification and documentation of projects and related resources of many kinds.

Metadata is at the heart of DataCite’s services. This blog post is about why and how an organization is harvesting DataCite metadata.

Hi there, I’m Katharina and I joined DataCite in October 2024 as the new Finance Manager. I wanted to take a moment to share a bit more about myself—my background, experience, and what I hope to bring to our team and community. My journey to science and data started with a passion for biology at school and continued at university while studying Plant Sciences.

The Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for Instruments Community Dialogue , hosted by DataCite and Metadata Game Changers, brought together a diverse group of experts to explore how PIDs can transform the identification of scientific instruments and the data they collect.

DataCite welcomed over 370 participants from almost 300 institutions across 59 countries to our Annual Community Meeting on 25 September 2024.  The DataCite Community Meeting was held across 10 sessions in three blocks and spanning all time zones, with some sessions repeated to give a regional focus.

One of the key benefits of having openly accessible metadata for a scholarly record is to easily identify and expose the relations among works—for example, investigations conducted in different domains that cite the same literature, results reported by different teams that drew from the same datasets, or projects outputs delivered years ago that inspired new experiments or methodology. These relations have always existed, but are often hidden due to variable archiving conventions and siloed preservation and communication practices. With properly implemented persistent identifier (PID) workflows, however, they can be readily discovered and be fed back into the research process, supporting evidence-based assessment. 

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As we approach the 2025 election, an exciting chapter for our community, the Election Committee is steering a process that will shape the future of DataCite’s leadership.