Metadata Game Changers’ Offerings
Our services support repository leadership and staff as they enhance their data infrastructure through metadata analysis, coaching, facilitation, and consulting. Our offerings are based on our experience working with many repository communities and many metadata dialects.
Consulting: We use mixed methods and consult on projects of all sizes. Ted primarily consults on metadata in any dialect, repository analysis, and improvement. Erin primarily consults on change management across the scientific community (e.g., teams migrating to the Cloud, operationalizing FAIR or CARE). We have worked with federal governments, universities, nonprofits, and other for-profits.
Grants: We collaborate as consultants, PIs, and co-Is in grant-funded activities. Contact Ted or Erin directly if you want to collaborate on a grant. Recent grants from NSF include FAIR Island EAGER (co-I), Sampling Nature RCN (consultant), BRIDGE (PI), and INFORMATE (PI).
Facilitation: We design and run in-person and online convenings for groups large and small across scientific domains related to data management. If you are interested in having us support your next workshop, send Erin an email.
Connect with us via the links below.
We can customize a statement of work for your organization and invoice through standard mechanisms. Contact us if you want to combine or customize any of these services.
Connectivity Insights (DataCite Metadata)
Connectivity Insights (DataCite Metadata)
Connectivity insights measure how well a repository’s metadata record collections are identified and connected to the global research infrastructure through the PID Graph. Connectivity can be quantified for any item or collection of items that can have identifiers. It is the number of existing identifiers divided by the number of possible identifiers. If no identifiers are present, connectivity = 0. If all potential identifiers are present, connectivity = 1. For more details on this type of report, see “University and College Connectivity @ DataCite.”
The insight report can be focused on connectivity for:
People - ORCID (how many authors or contributors have ORCIDs?)
Affiliations (how many authors or contributors have affiliations?)
RORs (how many of your affiliations have RORs?)
Funders (how many of your funders have funder names? how many have funder identifiers?)
Awards (how many of your awards have award identifiers?)
What’s included: Each analysis includes a customized analysis report, sent within ten business days, and 1-hour meeting to discuss results and identify opportunities for improvement.
Discounts are available for groups of repositories managed by a single organization and repository consortia. Contact Ted.
Note: This offer includes DataCite metadata repositories with fewer than 7,500 records or samples of 7,500 records from larger repositories.