Month: September 2015

Persistent Identifiers: Enabling Services for Data Intensive Research

Yesterday DataCite and ePIC co-hosted the workshop Persistent Identifiers: Enabling Services for Data Intensive Research. Below is a short summary of the tweets, all using the hashtag #pid_paris. Full room to…

September 22nd, 2015

Differences between ORCID and DataCite Metadata

One of the first tasks for DataCite in the European Commission-funded THOR project, which started in June, was to contribute to a comparison of the ORCID and DataCite metadata standards. Together with ORCID, CERN, the British Library and Dryad…

September 18th, 2015

Adding References to the DataCite Blog

We launched this blog six weeks ago on a hosted version of Ghost, the open source blogging platform. Ghost doesn’t have all the features of Wordpress or other more mature blogging platforms, but it is a pleasure to use.…

September 16th, 2015

Announcing Data-Level Metrics in DataCite Labs

Last week Jennifer Lin shared information on the Making Data Count (MDC) project on this blog. MDC is a project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to design and develop metrics that track and measure…

September 9th, 2015

Using YAML Frontmatter with CSV

CSV (comma-separated values) is a popular file format for data. It is popular because it is very simple: CSV is text-based and any application that can open text files can read or write CSV. This makes it a good…

September 3rd, 2015

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