Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Article Metadata Archeology
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Can metadata from journal articles be used to augment dataset metadata? Yes for affiliations, no for ORCIDs…
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Can Communities Improve Metadata?
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Metadata metrics over the last five years demonstrate that communities and repositories can work together to improve metadata.
Read MoreImproving Domain Repository Connectivity: Person or Organization?
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The UNAVCO community is the most common creator of datasets in the UNAVCO repository. They need to be recognized for those contributions. Adding an identifier for the community increases the % of DOIs with complete connectivity from 6 to 30%.
Read MoreImproving Domain Repository Connectivity: Identifying Organizations
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Adding identifiers for organizations is an important step in the process of increasing connectivity in metadata collections. Organizations make many contributions to domain repositories so each identifier is used many times. In the UNAVCO case, thirty-five identifiers were used over two thousand times.
Read MoreImproving Domain Repository Connectivity: Establishing a Baseline
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Domain repositories build strong communities of people and organizations that contribute data, expertise and scientific results. These communities thrive on active connections between data, papers, people, and organizations. Multiple contributions and real-world connections make domain repositories great places for adoption of identifiers and virtual connections that build the PID graph.
Read MoreMetadata Game Changers Partners with Openscapes in New NASA-funded Project
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We are thrilled to announce that Metadata Game Changers is partnering with Openscapes, housed at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis on a new NASA-funded, three year project! The full announcement is posted to the Openscapes website here: https://www.openscapes.org/blog/2021/03/10/nasa-announcement/
Read MoreA PID Feast for Research – PIDapalooza 2021
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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.
Read MorePower of PIDS: Measuring Connectivity
/In honor of PIDapalooza 2021 and 25 hours of Persistent Identifier discussion happening today, we thought a post celebrating the power of PIDs for increasing connectivity and how to measure that connectivity is in order. Let’s party on 🥳
Read MoreDataCite Metadata: Evolving to FAIRness
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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.
Read MoreCan Repositories Improve Metadata?
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The road to complete and consistent metadata can be long and arduous – digging through piles of metadata and other kinds of data to find small gems of information that can be added to metadata records, contacting recalcitrant researchers to fill in blanks, slowly building content across a collection… Does it really need to be that hard?
Read MoreMinimum Metadata
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Looking for New Year’s metadata resolutions? How about: Stop using sentences that include the words “minimum metadata” without specifying a use case.
Read MoreDataCite Subject Metadata
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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.
Read MoreSometimes a Name is Not Enough - Update
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Non-unique organizations and acronyms can cause problems in ROR searches. Use supporting information if you have it to get better results. If not, beware of theses gotchas.
Read MoreEarly Adopters of Organizational Identifiers in DataCite
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Let’s recognize leaders in the adoption of organizational identifiers in DataCite metadata. They are making tracks for us to follow!
Read MoreHow Many RORs Do We Need?
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Adopting organizational identifiers (RORs) in existing metadata may not be as hard as we think for DataCite members that only have a few affiliations in their metadata. However, even in these cases, some challenges remain.
Read MoreSometimes a Name is Not Enough
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Many groups are interested in augmenting their affiliation metadata with RORs and it seems that a list of organization names is the right input to that process... Alas, we know that affiliations are a swamp filled with gotcha's. It turns out that an unexpected (really?) number of organization names resolve to multiple RORs. Actually, almost 800 of them!
Read MoreMetaDIG recommendations for FAIR DataCite metadata
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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.
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Metadata Archeology: Hunting Affiliations and RORs in DataCite Metadata
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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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