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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

When Counting is Hard

This is a guest post by Jennifer Lin, project manager for the Making Data Count project, and since last week CrossRef Director of Product Management. Counting is hard. But when it comes to research data, not in the way…

August 31st, 2015

Digging into Metadata using R

In the first post of this new blog a few weeks ago I talked about Data-Driven Development, and that service monitoring is an important aspect of this. The main service DataCite is providing is registration of digital object identifiers…

August 20th, 2015

From Pilot to Service

Today I am pleased to announce the launch of a new service, DataCite Labs Search – the service is available immediately at https://search.datacite.org/. This is one of THOR’s first services and is based on work in the earlier…

August 17th, 2015

Reference Lists and Tables of Content

Geoff Bilder from CrossRef likes to show the following slide at scholarly conferences, and then asks the audience what they see: Most of us probably immediately recognize this document as a scholarly article. This immediate recognition includes essential parts…

August 15th, 2015

Overcoming Development Pain

Today DataCite received an email from a user alerting us that there are some small inconsistencies with our recommended data citation format: Creator (PublicationYear): Title. Publisher. Identifier at https://www.datacite.org/services/cite-your-data.html Creator; (PublicationYear): Title; Publisher. Identifier at search.datacite.org Removing two…

August 11th, 2015

Data-Driven Development

This week I start as the new DataCite Technical Director. While I get up to speed with existing DataCite services and infrastructure, and we start to launch new services (e.g. this blog), this is also a good time to communicate the…

August 3rd, 2015

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