December 02, 2021

Connecting DMPs and Research Outputs in DataCite Metadata

December 02, 2021/ Ted Habermann

We are in the early days of documenting output management plans using DataCite metadata so it is an important time to identify and adopt common practices that help realize the exciting goals of machine-actionable DMPs. Common practices will facilitate the creation of interoperable DMPs and the development of tools across the research community that help us all reap the on-going benefits of these plans throughout the research life-cycle.

September 29, 2021

Metadata Game Changers, Stanford University, and Dryad receive NSF Funding to improve metadata quality and connect repositories

September 29, 2021/ Ted Habermann

“Existing metadata are an exciting learning set for discerning patterns that can be used to streamline the metadata creation process. We want to ensure that data are being submitted to the best fit repository with the right metadata. ”

July 16, 2021

Acronyms Are Definitely Not Enough

July 16, 2021/ Ted Habermann

Writing out an acronym the first time you use it works well in technical writing. Use the same rule in your affiliations! Is it Metadata Game Changers or Mitsubishi Gas Chemical?

May 17, 2021

Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Closing the Circle

May 17, 2021/ Ted Habermann

Can communities around domain repositories be used to increase connectivity for researchers and organizations in those communities? The UNAVCO repository suggests that the answer is yes.

April 28, 2021

Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Article Metadata Archeology

April 28, 2021/ Ted Habermann

Can metadata from journal articles be used to augment dataset metadata? Yes for affiliations, no for ORCIDs…

April 19, 2021

Can Communities Improve Metadata?

April 19, 2021/ Ted Habermann

Metadata metrics over the last five years demonstrate that communities and repositories can work together to improve metadata.

April 06, 2021

Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Person or Organization?

April 06, 2021/ Ted Habermann

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%.

March 26, 2021

Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Identifying Organizations

March 26, 2021/ Ted Habermann

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.

March 19, 2021

Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Establishing a Baseline

March 19, 2021/ Ted Habermann

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.

March 10, 2021

Metadata Game Changers Partners with Openscapes in New NASA-funded Project

March 10, 2021/ Erin Robinson

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/

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 27, 2021

Power of PIDS: Measuring Connectivity

January 27, 2021/ Ted Habermann

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 🥳

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.

January 01, 2021

Can Repositories Improve Metadata?

January 01, 2021/ Ted Habermann

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?

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.

April 21, 2020

Sometimes a Name is Not Enough - Update

April 21, 2020/ Ted Habermann

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.

March 06, 2020

Early Adopters of Organizational Identifiers in DataCite

March 06, 2020/ Ted Habermann

Let’s recognize leaders in the adoption of organizational identifiers in DataCite metadata. They are making tracks for us to follow!

November 11, 2019

How Many RORs Do We Need?

November 11, 2019/ Ted Habermann

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.

October 24, 2019

Sometimes a Name is Not Enough

October 24, 2019/ Ted Habermann

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!

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