was the response by a DataCite Member when asked what he liked about the DataCite training sessions at this year’s DataCite Member Meeting.  This year, we shared insights and news with our members and the broader community in six open sessions and two training sessions that ran throughout the day. A total of 334 participants from 226 institutions in 36 countries attended the sessions, which accommodated multiple time zones.

Implementing FAIR Workflows: A Proof of Concept Study in the Field of Consciousness is a 3-year project funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. In this project, DataCite works with a number of partners on providing an exemplar workflow that can be used by researchers to implement FAIR practices throughout their research lifecycle.

Howdy from Portland! I recently joined DataCite as an Application Developer, and it has been great to get involved with the team and community over the past month. Before joining DataCite, I was a software development engineer at Cambia Health Solutions. I worked on a large-scale care gap management engine that assists health professionals in identifying gaps in member care, allowing them to provide better coverage.

We are delighted to announce the launch of IGSN ID registration using DataCite services. This is the culmination of almost one year of work after the signing of a partnership agreement between DataCite and the IGSN e.V. in October 2021. The ability to register material samples with IGSN IDs is now available to all DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations.

Bringing rigor to the scholarly record DataCite celebrates the recently issued Nelson memo “to make the results of taxpayer-supported research immediately available to the American public at no cost.” This is a significant step in the global policy landscape and will support collective action for change.

The DataCite Metadata Working Group has been working on the next version of the metadata schema—and we need your feedback! Over the past year and a half, the Metadata Working Group has been working on changes to support the evolving use cases for DataCite DOIs.

This is a guest blog post written by Michael Witt, Nina Weisweiler, and Robert Ulrich. In this post, the authors celebrate the 10th anniversary of re3data, sharing insights about the history, the service itself, and how it has developed over the last decade. We at DataCite would like to congratulate re3data for its persistence in making information about research data repositories available.

Over the last two years, we have been reviewing our design processes, and in line with our strategic priority to “Provide easy, efficient, and responsive community services to support the needs of our community,” we have been improving the DataCite design processes. This post reflects on these improvements, and we plan to evaluate the impact of these design process improvements on new services/functionality.

To be able to improve what you are doing, it is essential to question the way you have been doing things. As DataCite’s outreach manager, this is what I have been through in the last couple of months. With the DataCite strategic plan 2022-2025 in place, it is important to update the way we communicate with our community.

Introduction We are happy to announce that we have improved the prefix assignment workflow in Fabrica. Following  pillar one of our strategic plan: “Provide easy, efficient and responsive community services to support the needs of our community”, we simplified the prefix assignment workflow. The new process gives more autonomy to our members when setting up repositories in Fabrica.

Last week was a very special week for the DataCite team, because we had our first in-person team retreat in over two years!