Month: October 2015

Explaining the DataCite/ORCID Auto-update

This Monday ORCID, CrossRef and DataCite announced (ORCID post, CrossRef post, DataCite post) the new auto-update service that automatically pushes metadata to ORCID when an ORCID identifier is found in newly registered DOI names. This is the…

October 29th, 2015

Auto-Update Has Arrived!

This post has been cross-posted from the ORCID blog. We will follow up with a blog post later this week explaining the DataCite auto-update implementation. Since ORCID’s inception, our key goal has been to unambiguously identify researchers and provide…

October 26th, 2015

Software Citation Workflows

This blog post provides more detail for a short presentation I will give today at the Software Credit Workshop in London. The aim is to look at the infrastructure pieces needed for software discovery and credit, and at the…

October 19th, 2015

Happy Birthday ORCID

Three years ago today Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) launched its service at the Outreach Meeting in Berlin. One of many tweets from the launch day: Congrats to @orcid_org the ORCID registry is…

October 16th, 2015

Contributor Information in DataCite Metadata

The Force11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles [@https://doi.org/10.25490/a97f-egyk] highlight the importance of giving scholarly credit to all contributors: Data citations should facilitate giving scholarly credit and normative and legal attribution to all contributors to the…

October 12th, 2015

Recap: Persistent Identifiers in Paris

In late September DataCite and ePIC co-hosted a conference, Persistent Identifiers: Enabling Services for Data Intensive Research, in Paris on the Monday before the RDA Sixth Plenary meeting. It was a great way to kick-off a busy week…

October 4th, 2015

Discussing the Scholarly Container

One of my personal highlights in last week’s Research Data Alliance (RDA) 6th Plenary Meeting in Paris was the Data Packages Birds of a Feather (BoF), organized by Rufus Pollock from the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN).…

October 2nd, 2015

Thoughts on the Research Data Alliance 6th Plenary

The Research Data Alliance 6th Plenary last week discussed numerous topics very relevant to DataCite. Below is a short subjective list of topics I found interesting. If you attended RDA, feel free to add your thoughts in the comments.…

October 1st, 2015

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