Author: Sergio Ruiz

On December 1st DataCite celebrates its fifth birthday! On this day in 2009, in London, DataCite was founded.

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CERN launches its Open Data portal. The initiative makes openly available LHC data.

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DataCite’s Metadata Working Group is looking for your opinion. We are considering making a change to the set of fields required for registration of a digital object identifier (DOI).

Right now, you must provide a creator, a title, a publisher and a publication year, the basic building blocks of a resource citation. In recent years, a number of DataCite’s external partners have told us that it would be very useful (for interoperability) if we would also require resource type (that is, dataset, image, text, etc).

We’d like to know what you think. Does this make sense to you? Or, does this just seem like extra work for little or no benefit?

To engage in the discussion, please go to our forum site. We’ll meet you there.

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In 2014 DataCite celebrates its fifth year of operation and CrossRef its fifteenth. Together we have registered almost 75 million DOIs. Today the two organisations are committing to accelerate the adoption of DOIs for data publication and citation.

Data are essential building blocks of scholarship and research in the sciences, medicine, technology, social sciences, and humanities. DataCite and CrossRef will work together to ensure that researchers can seamlessly navigate among all research results including articles and data and to make data a first class, identifiable, referenceable, and citable element in the scholarly record.

DataCite and CrossRef have agreed to collaborate to:

• Enhance the interoperability of their respective systems in order to make it easier for publishers, data centres, libraries and third parties to integrate with the scholarly DOI ecosystem.
• Provide comprehensive support for interlinking between articles and data.
• Develop open APIs and open source tools to surface citations and other relationships between publications and data sets.
• Integrate into their services other existing scholarly communications initiatives such as ORCID and FundRef.
• Develop systems, workflows and best practices for using DOIs to reference large, highly granular and dynamic data.

Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef’s Director of Strategic Initiatives, said “Nobody in the scholarly communications community can have failed to notice the surge in interest in data publication and the widespread desire to link publications to their underlying data. About once a month we are invited to participate in yet another conference, workshop or initiative to address the issues around data and data citation. This is a fast moving area, and in order to meet the needs of researchers and our respective memberships, we need to make sure that CrossRef and DataCite are working together closely, quickly and efficiently.”

Adam Farquhar, President of DataCite, says “Collectively, DataCite and CrossRef manage nearly 75 million DOIs that identify critical research objects in the scholarly record. It is vital to the DOI ecosystem to ensure our systems are interoperable and that we make the most efficient use of our resources through collaboration and sharing. This is particularly true as we try to meet the requirements raised in the fast-moving community that is focused on data publication, citation, and reuse.”

For more information contact:

Geoffrey Bilder
Director of Strategic Initiatives
gbilder@CrossRef.org

Jan Brase
DataCite Executive Officer
Jan.Brase@datacite.org

DataCite is a global consortium that assigns persistent identifiers to research data. DataCite makes research better by enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data. DataCite is a leading global membership organization that engages with stakeholders including researchers, scholars, data centers, libraries, publishers, and funders through advocacy, guidance and services.

CrossRef serves as a digital hub for the scholarly communications community. A not-for profit membership organization of global scholarly publishers, CrossRef’s innovations shape the future of scholarly communications by fostering collaboration among multiple stakeholders. CrossRef provides a wide spectrum of services for identifying, locating, linking to, and assessing the reliability and provenance of scholarly content.

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In 2014 DataCite celebrates its fifth year of operation and CrossRef its fifteenth. Together we have registered almost 75 million DOIs. Today the two organisations are committing to accelerate the adoption of DOIs for data publication and citation.

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After ODIN: looking to the future

Announcing a free webinar from the ODIN project, taking place on Tuesday September 9, at 1500 (BST) / 1600 (CEST) / 1700 (EEST)

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Why do we need persistent identifiers (PIDS)? What can we do with them – and what can’t we do without them? Given that the technology exists, why don’t researchers already have access to all the PIDs, systems and services that they could possibly need?

These are some of the questions that the ORCID and DataCite Interoperability Network (ODIN) project has confronted as it surveyed the landscape of Persistent Identifier usage and adoption. We have completed a detailed gap analysis and set out recommendations for the most urgent steps to take to fill those gaps. Working with international partners, including arXiv, the Australian National Data Service and the Dryad Digital Repository and conducting interviews with stakeholders from multiple disciplines, publishers and e-infrastructure providers, we have refined and improved the ODIN roadmap to better access to an improved PID ecosystem.

Join us for this free webinar on September 9 at 1500 (BST) / 1600 (CEST) / 1700 (EEST) to hear more about the ODIN Roadmap and to discuss the responses of experts from the scholarly communications community.

Speakers will be:

Jude England (British Library)
Jennifer Lin (PLoS)
Mikael Elbaek (Technical University of Denmark)
Kyle Cranmer (New York University, NYU Centre for Data Science)

Members of the project team will also be online to answer your questions.

We look forward to discussing our ideas with you!

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PHILADELPHIA, August 28, 2014 – The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a collaboration with DataCite, a leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data. The collaboration will promote the discovery of research data sets through the Data Citation Index SM, a single-point solution providing access to quality research data sets from multi-disciplinary repositories around the world.

This collaboration will connect the Data Citation Index to high quality research data from repositories worldwide that work with DataCite. This will ensure that the valuable content that has been made citable by DataCite is globally discoverable, properly attributed and reusable by other researchers. As part of the Web of Science TM—the premier scientific search and discovery platform and industry authority in science, social science, and arts & humanities citation indexes—inclusion within the Data Citation Index will also further DataCite’s mission of increasing acceptance of research data as citable contributions to the scholarly record.

“We are excited to be working with Thomson Reuters to enhance the ways that people can find and use data,” said Adam Farquhar, president of DataCite. “With global research output rapidly increasing and citable datasets becoming legitimate contributions to the scholarly record, it is imperative that researchers around the globe can efficiently access, cite and measure data-intensive research.”

Since creating the Data Citation Index, Thomson Reuters has worked closely with global industry leaders to expand the breadth of research discovery by capturing bibliographic records and cited references for digital research, as well as literature describing research which cites or uses the data, stewarding the accurate identification, attribution and measurement of this growing body of scholarship. The Data Citation Index allows users to gain a comprehensive view of the genesis of research projects and influence the future paths they may take, while minimizing the duplication of work and speeding the scientific research process to keep pace with the changing global research landscape. Through linked content and summary information, this data is displayed within the broader context of the scholarly research ecosystem, enabling users to gain perspective that otherwise would be lost if viewed in isolation.

“We are pleased to be working with DataCite, a leader in providing persistent identifiers to high-value data, to improve both access to datasets and accurate scholarly attribution,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director of Thomson Reuters Scholarly and Scientific Research. “As the global output of scientific and scholarly research continues to rapidly grow, DataCite’s support of the Data Citation Index raises the importance of identifying prior research to enhance the scientific process.”

Learn more about the Data Citation Index and Web of Science.

DataCite
DataCite is a global nonprofit membership organization that aims to make research better by enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data through reliable, easy-to-use persistent data identification services underpinned by the DOI system. DataCite engages stakeholders including researchers, scholars, data centers, libraries, publishers and funders through advocacy, guidance and services.

Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

CONTACT

Thomson Reuters
Jen Breen
+1 215.823.1791
Jennifer.breen@thomsonreuters.com

Molly Malone
+1 215.823.3702
Molly.malone@thomsonreuters.com

DataCite
Jan Brase
+49 15120417763
Jan.brase@datacite.org

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Nancy (France) – 25 and 26 August 2014

Registration for the DataCite 5th Annual Conference is still open. This year’s theme, Giving Value to Data: Advocacy, Guidance, Services will highlight recent developments in the discovery, access and reuse of research data. The conference will celebrate the dramatic advances made in the way the research community works with data since minting the first DOI for data a decade ago. This is underscored by DataCite minting its 3,500,000th DOI (Digital Object Identifier) earlier this year.

Find all the details in the Conference website.

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ORCID and DataCite are pleased to announce their joint commitment to research data by signing a Memorandum of Understanding. ORCID and DataCite agree that data are essential building blocks of scholarship and research in the sciences, medicine, social …

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