Month: April 2019

A Tune-Up for the Statistics Portal

We’ve previously shared with you our plans to migrate all of our services from Solr to Elasticsearch. (See for example our 2019 preview [@https://doi.org/10.5438/bckb-qy95] or how we’ve used Elasticsearch to make an improved DataCite Search [@https://doi.org/10.5438/vyd9-ty64].…

April 29th, 2019

DOI Fabrica Form Gets a Facelift

When we launched the DOI registration form in DOI Fabrica last year, we purposely kept it pretty basic. We wanted to get the most-used metadata fields in front of the people who needed them as soon as possible. But it’s…

April 25th, 2019

Usage Stats for datasets: now available in DataCite Search

Those of you attending the recent General Assembly might have heard us talk about how DataCite is at a crossroads. We’ve spent the last several years building and honing the infrastructure necessary to make it simple for institutions to create…

April 17th, 2019

Exposing DOI metadata provenance

DOI metadata provenance is describing the history of a particular DOI metadata record, i.e. what changes were made when and by whom. This information is now stored and provided via an API for all DOI registrations since March 10, 2019. The…

April 10th, 2019

Building community: the first 5 years of DataCite

As part of our 10-year anniversary, we want to tell you the story of how DataCite was founded 10 years ago. Therefore, we approached several people ‘who were there’ to tell you their part of the story. This guest blog…

April 9th, 2019

DataCite's 10 year anniversary: and the award goes to...

On April 1, DataCite organized its yearly member meeting and General Assembly. This year it was not just a chance to present and discuss DataCite’s current activities, but also a celebration as we look back on 10 very successful DataCite…

April 2nd, 2019

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