DataCite use cases around the world: Welcome to our blog series shining a spotlight on how research institutions integrate DataCite infrastructure into their systems and workflows.

Standards & More Standards Metadata standards are fundamental to the semantic web and database management; they form the basis for data discovery, sharing, and organization across a range of domains.

The above was the theme of ‘Persistent Identifiers for Open Science in Japan (and Asia Pacific)’ [English/Japanese], held on 12 December 2023 in Tokyo and co-located with the International Symposium on Data Science 2023 (DSWS-2023; see below for more on this). This in-person event brought together local, regional, and international stakeholders to learn about what is happening within Japan and APAC (and beyond) to increase persistent identifier (PID) adoption, and network on how to better connect national and global research infrastructure. It was co-organized by ORCID and DataCite alongside their respective Consortium Leads in Japan, the Academic eXchange for Information Environment and Strategy (AXIES) and the Japan Link Center (JaLC; hosted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)).

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If everything we hear is to be believed, anything we’d like to know is one simple natural language query away, formatted beautifully, reliably researched, and with insights that would have taken us a lifetime to derive. By joining DataCite’s Product team, I hope to help get us just a little closer to that vision. I come from a Computer Science and Library technology background.

DataCite use cases around the world: Welcome to our new blog series shining a spotlight on how research institutions integrate DataCite infrastructure into their systems and workflows. Join us as we explore real-world examples, best practices, and the impact of the DataCite community. Lynn Woolfrey manages the research data service at DataFirst at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Mid-October to early December 2023 saw us once again survey you, the DataCite community, about whether we service your needs in terms of the products we offer, support we provide to you, and events we organize. As a community, we are guided by the current and future priorities of our Members to ensure that we remain valuable and relevant to you. General Around 17% of DataCite Members took part in the 2023 survey.

The DataCite Ambassador Program was officially launched in late 2023 to expand our engagement with communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. This initiative creates a network of dedicated volunteers that raise awareness, increase adoption, foster collaboration, and promote best practices among local communities in countries and regions where awareness of persistent identifier (PID) infrastructure is still low.

We are happy to introduce new members to the Services and Technology Steering Group, the Metadata Working Group, and the Regional Expert groups. After our call for applications in October 2023, we received numerous applications from community members eager to contribute to the work we are doing. Find out more about the new members below!

At DataCite, we make metadata for over 50 million DOIs openly available to enable the discovery of research outputs and related resources. This metadata is created by DataCite’s Members and Consortium Organizations according to the DataCite Metadata Schema. When registering a DataCite DOI, repositories submit metadata to improve discoverability and reusability. Today, we are releasing version 4.5 of the DataCite Metadata Schema.

Greetings to the DataCite community! I’m Maria Gould, and I’ve just joined DataCite as Director of Product. I’m excited to have this opportunity to introduce myself and share a bit about where I’m from and how I got here.  I live in Portland, Oregon, USA, where the city is bisected by the Willamette River.

In 2023 we launched the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF) with the support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,  established to enable organizations worldwide to make their research outputs discoverable and connect to global open infrastructure. Today, we are thrilled to announce the first cohort of organizations and projects that are receiving GAF funding.