Funder Metadata: Identifiers and Award Numbers

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Funder Metadata: Identifiers and Award Numbers

Improving the completeness and the machine-readability of funder metadata in the global research infrastructure, i.e. DataCite and Crossref, is a critical step along the path of using that infrastructure to identify and characterize research results supported by funders all over the world. A set of 854 funder descriptions from the DRUM repository were processed into 1482 affiliation strings. ROR identifiers were found for 638 of those affiliations and 229 award numbers were extracted.

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The Others

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The Others

Identifying diverse contributions made to research objects is the first step in acknowledging those contributions. DataCite includes the contributorType metadata element and a list of twenty types to support this step. A type of Other is included to allow recognition of contributions not included in the list. Understanding how Other is used might help evaluate possible extensions to the contributorType list.

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Connecting DMPs and Research Outputs in DataCite Metadata

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Connecting DMPs and Research Outputs in DataCite Metadata

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.

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Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Identifying Organizations

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Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Identifying Organizations

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.

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Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Establishing a Baseline

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Improving Domain Repository Connectivity: Establishing a Baseline

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.

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

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

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/

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A PID Feast for Research – PIDapalooza 2021

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A PID Feast for Research – PIDapalooza 2021

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.

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Can Repositories Improve Metadata?

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Can Repositories Improve Metadata?

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?

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