By offering detailed information on more than 2,000 research data repositories, re3data has become the most comprehensive source of reference for research data infrastructures globally. Through the development and advocacy of a framework for discipline-specific research data management, Science Europe is looking at the minimum requirements for research data repositories that can be used by funders and research organizations.

This blog post by Laure Haak, Ed Pentz and Trisha Cruse was cross-posted from the ORCID blog. On 22 January, ORCID, DataCite and Crossref co-hosted an Organization ID Stakeholders meeting. The meeting marked a transition from the work of the Organization ID Working Group to a formal launch of an Organization ID Registry Initiative.

DataCite is pleased to welcome Richard Hallett to our team. Richard joined DataCite as application developer in December. Get to know him better via this interview. Can you tell us a little bit about what you did before you started working for DataCite?

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 resources and roadmap. In September, the MDC team sat down and mapped out the project plan for our two-year grant.

Last month we launched DOI Fabrica, the modernized version of the DataCite Metadata Store (MDS) web frontend. It is the one place for DataCite providers and their clients to create, find, connect and track every single DOI from their organization. November has arrived and it has brought a new set of features and improvements to DOI Fabrica. We’re constantly improving DOI Fabrica to help your organization register and manage DOIs and metadata.

The DataCite Metadata Schema 4.1 has been released today. If the 4.1 release has a theme, it is support for software citation.

Today DataCite is launching DOI Fabrica, the next generation of DataCite’s DOI registration service, replacing the Metadata Store (MDS). This is the biggest and most important product release DataCite has done in many years, and the result of nine months of hard work by the entire DataCite team. DOI registration is the core service that DataCite is providing to its members and the data centers they work with.

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 to traditional journal publications, and scholarly research is much more than an article.

PIDapalooza is back, by popular demand! We’re building on the the best of the inaugural PIDapalooza and organizing two days packed with discussions, demos, informal and interactive sessions, updates, talks by leading PID innovators, and more. There will be lots of opportunities to network – and to learn from and engage with PID enthusiasts from around the world. All in a fun, relaxed, and welcoming atmosphere! We’re looking for your PIDeas!

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.