How Many When (Update)
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DataCite includes many types of resources and the distribution of those has evolved considerably over the last twenty years. During 2023, 75% of the new resources are physicalObjects.
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ORCID Profiles – What’s There and Where Did It Come From?
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ORCIDs for UCAR employees include many more works than other kinds of items and publishers and PID infrastructure providers provide most of the data.
Read MoreProject Metadata in DataCite
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DataCite metadata with the term Project in the resourceType occur in at least ten repositories, with the majority in the Center for Open Science (cos.osf) and Zenodo (cern.zenodo). Samples of these metadata were examined to determine how projects are represented in DataCite. While single repositories show consistent patterns, no clear overall pattern emerged.
Read MoreFAIR Island Experiments with Connecting Project Resources in DataCite
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The FAIR Island Project has recently been exploring how the global research infrastructure can be used to connect all kinds of research resources related to scientifically significant places back to the place that enabled the work (i.e. the field station). We recently explored connecting data management plans, protocols, and datasets to projects at field stations in French Polynesia.
Read MoreResponding to the Nelson Memo: Repository Re-Curation for Open Science
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A recent talk introduces the concept of repository re-curation as a means of improving connectivity with identifiers while complying with the Nelson Memo. Examples from three types of research organizations are described: Dryad, a generalist repository, institutional repositories, and biologic field stations. Slides and a video of the talk are included.
Read MoreJournal Connectivity@Dryad: The University of Chicago Press
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The Dryad data publishing platform and community have provided secure storage, curation, discovery and access for datasets associated with published scientific papers since 2008 and now holds nearly 50,000 datasets. The platform is supported by an active community of researchers, research organizations, and scientific journals that submit data and support infrastructure development and sustenance. Dryad also has a strong commitment to supporting open, connected science by using identifiers, particularly RORs, throughout the platform. In fact, Dryad has been a leader in adoption of RORs since their initial development.
Read MoreROR Identifiers That Have Disappeared
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Nearly 900 RORs created during the last several years have been dropped from the ROR database and no longer resolve. These missing RORs have been identified. What should be done with them?
Read MoreNeed help searching for RORs? Try RORRetriever!
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The ROR web interface and API work well if you have a small number of affiliation strings that need identifiers, but what if you have several hundred organization names or thousands of affiliation strings? Try RORRetriever if you have a big ROR search and don’t know where to start!
Read MoreUniversities@DataCite
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Affiliations and identifiers are critical for building a connected research community across the world. The contribution made to that connected resource for University datasets in DataCite is limited by the paucity of the required organizational identifiers.
Read MoreROR in a Database
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I use the database version of the ROR data to explore data characteristics that might affect my results, usually by making it harder to find the correct RORs in a big pile of affiliations.
Read MoreHow Many When (All Time)
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DataCite has a long history of registering DOIs for a variety of resource types.
Read MoreHow Many When?
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Need facet data in a machine-readable format? The new option —facetdata can help!
Read MoreDataCite Facets: Understanding DataCite Usage
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I will describe how the DataCite metadata facets help me improve my understanding of DataCite metadata usage in this blog and introduce some software that can help you answer your questions about DataCite metadata usage.
Read MoreMetadata Life Cycle: Mountain or Superhighway?
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The idea that DataCite exists only to provide DOIs is deeply embedded in repository thought processes and this idea needs to evolve. The research community needs to think about DataCite (and other elements of the global research infrastructure) as powerful resources for describing and connecting the myriad of resources that make up the modern research world. We need to maximize the information that we add into this system to maximize the benefits we can get out of it.
Read MoreFunder Metadata: Identifiers and Award Numbers
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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.
Read MoreThe Others
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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.
Read MoreConnecting DMPs and Research Outputs in DataCite Metadata
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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.
Read MoreMetadata Game Changers, Stanford University, and Dryad receive NSF Funding to improve metadata quality and connect repositories
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“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. ”
Read MoreAcronyms Are Definitely Not Enough
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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?
Read MoreImproving Domain Repository Connectivity: Closing the Circle
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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.
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