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 focus on research data. You would join a small technical team of one application developer based in Berlin and me based in Hannover, also in Germany.

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. Over the course of the next two years, EZID DOI services will be phased out for users outside of the University of California.

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 to pull all DataCite’s information into a single Support Center. Our goal is to present our user community with a complete, up-to-date, easy to read, searchable resource.

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 data sharing and citation easier. Our activities are not limited to technical development but will include support services that will foster the successful use of all our services.

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 of a new service that will collate and expose data level metrics.

As our Technical Director Martin Fenner shared a few days ago, our new Content Resolver service is an ideal interface and information source to build integrations. Today, we want to share with you a few potential (and fancy!) integrations one could build using content negotiation and DOI metadata. Format your references You have probably seen DataCite’s Citation Formatter or the export functionality of DataCite Search.

While it is a best practice for DOIs (expressed as URL) to send the user to the landing page for that resource [@https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1; @https://10.1101/097196], sometimes we want something else: metadata , e.g. to generate a citation, or to go to the content itself. The easiest way to do that is to use DOI content negotiation.

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 is DataCite’s official governing body and approves fee structures, budgets, and elects our Executive Board.

You might be wondering, what this pink and green picture illustrates? A few months ago we couldn’t show you this picture; the data that we used to created it, did not exist. And the answer to what this illustrates – this is simply a distorted version of DataCite search indexing frequency.

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 that are vital to DataCite future and – the for-profit communities, US Federal agencies, and international organizations. Please join me in welcoming Mike Frame, Mark Hahnel, and Marco Marsella!

The Association of College and Research Libraries division of the American Libraries Association (ALA) gives the Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences every two years. This summer, the re3data registry of research data repositories will be recognized with the award at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.