On Thursday March 17, 3pm-4pm CET, OpenAIRE, THOR, Datacite, and ORCID will organise a one hour webinar on data – article linking services. Project OpenAIRE aims to support the implementation of Open Science in Europe and will demonstrate during the webinar how they collaborate with DataCite and CrossRef to establish a sustainable e-infrastructure for researchers.
THOR is pleased to announce the launch of a new dashboard tool. Our dashboard will monitor the evolution of the persistent identifier (PID) landscape over the life of the THOR project.
We’re really excited to announce the upcoming soft-launch of the THOR knowledge hub. A skeleton resource at the moment, the knowledge hub will evolve into the first point of call for information about persistent identifiers. We’d love to show you what we’ve built so far, share our plans for the hub and gather your feedback, suggestions and contributions.
The Force11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles highlight the importance of giving scholarly credit to all contributors: The EC-funded THOR project that DataCite is involved in addresses these issues, and I have summarized the findings of one of our first reports in aprevious blog post.
(cross posted from the Datacite blog) One of the first tasks for DataCite in the European Commission-funded THOR project that started in June was to contribute to a comparison of the ORCID and DataCite metadata standards.
Would you like to help others enjoy the full power of persistent identifiers? A core component of the THOR project is two-way community involvement and with that in mind we’re happy to be launching the THOR project Ambassador Programme. THOR ambassadors will help shape the way we look at the persistent identifier landscape, influence new services, and help us understand where we are doing well and where we could do better.
Warning: This is a technical post aimed at developers and integrators. That said, even if you’re non technical, you’ll be able to use the docs and explore the API to see what’s possible. They’re really easy to work with. At first glance, most REST APIs are a bit confusing. REST is an architectural style, not a specification and people do things differently.
A few weeks ago there was an excellent post on the datacite blog by Martin Fenner. We’ve reproduced it below: In the first post of the Datacite blog I talked about Data-Driven Development, and that service monitoring is an important aspect of this. The main service DataCite is providing is registration of digital object identifiers (DOIs) for scholarly content, in particular research data.
An article co-authored by one of the THOR partners was recently published by the Earth Science Informatics journal. Although written from a geo-domain perspective it contains much that can be applied to more general cases.
Today I am pleased to announce the launch of a new service, DataCite Labs Search – the service is available immediately athttp://search.labs.datacite.org/. This is one of THOR’s first services and is based on work in the earlier EC-funded ODIN Project. The ODIN project launched the DataCite/ORCID claiming tool in June 2013. The DataCite/ORCID claiming tool allows users to add works from the DataCite Metadata Store (MDS) to their ORCID profile.
Immediately before the start of the Research Data Alliance 6th Plenary session, on the 21st September, DataCite and EPIC are organising a half-day event to discuss how Persistent Identifiers can meet the challenges presented by data intensive research.