February 02, 2021

A PID Feast for Research – PIDapalooza 2021

February 02, 2021/ Ted Habermann

Measuring metadata completeness is a great way to identify good examples and low-hanging fruit for improvement. A Pidapalloza talk from last week described results from a recent assessment of 144 repositories from the TIB DataCite Consortium with respect to recommendations for FAIR metadata. Overall, the seven mandatory DataCite fields dominate these repositories, but several great examples that go beyond the mandatory were identified.

January 11, 2021

DataCite Metadata: Evolving to FAIRness

January 11, 2021/ Ted Habermann

It has been ten years since the release of the first DataCite metadata schema. Many improvements since then provide a roadmap for community evolution toward making DataCite metadata more FAIR.

December 28, 2020

Minimum Metadata

December 28, 2020/ Ted Habermann

Looking for New Year’s metadata resolutions? How about: Stop using sentences that include the words “minimum metadata” without specifying a use case.

July 14, 2020

DataCite Subject Metadata

July 14, 2020/ Ted Habermann

DataCite subject metadata can play an important role in dataset classification and discovery, but these elements are uncommon in the repository and need some improvements. Establishing metrics for completeness and quality is an important first step in the improvement process.

October 03, 2019

MetaDIG recommendations for FAIR DataCite metadata

October 03, 2019/ Ted Habermann

Clear and specific community recommendations for FAIR metadata in multiple dialects are rare and necessary for measuring progress towards evaluating and improving metadata in many repositories. We propose an initial set of concepts and an evaluation of the DataCite metadata collection for essential metadata elements that support Findability.

August 15, 2019

Metadata Archeology: Hunting Affiliations and RORs in DataCite Metadata

August 15, 2019/ Ted Habermann

The DataCite metadata model includes rich information about over 18 million items with DOIs. The schema includes at least four elements that describe organizations: publisher, creator, contributor, and fundingReference. Each of these elements has interesting characteristics. Let’s explore them!

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