Events
African National Libraries Forum 2026
National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco (BNRM) 2554+9W9, Av. Ibn Khaldoun, Rabat, MoroccoMohamad Mostafa, Community Specialist at DataCite, will focus on the role of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and open metadata in boosting the visibility and accessibility of African scholarship. He will provide representatives of African national libraries with an introduction to DataCite, its global community, services, and PID infrastructure. Mohamad will also highlight use cases from national libraries that are members of the DataCite community, showcasing how they are using PIDs and open infrastructure to support research discovery and knowledge dissemination.
Barcamp Open Science 2026
Wikimedia Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24, Berlin, GermanyPaul Vierkant, Outreach Manager at DataCite, will attend Barcamp Open Science 2026. If you would like to connect with him there, please get in touch.
DataCite Open Hours – June 2026
In this DataCite Open Hours session, speakers from DataCite, Dryad, and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research explored how persistent identifiers and open metadata can connect funders, awards, researchers, organizations, and research outputs.
Japan Open Science Summit (JOSS)
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan 2-chōme-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda City, Tokyo, JapanThe 2026 Japan Open Science Summit (JOSS) will feature an online panel discussion with DataCite consortia around the world discussing their use cases, consortium activities, shared achievements and challenges, and future opportunities for regional and global collaboration.
Maximizing Research Visibility and Tracking Impact Through Persistent Identifiers: A DataCite Perspective
Mohamad Mostafa, Community Specialist at DataCite, provides an overview of DataCite’s services and global community. The presentation focuses on the DataCite community in the Middle East and North Africa and includes adoption stories from the region. He also highlights Medad, powered by Naseej, as the region’s first DataCite Registered Service Provider.
Bridging Gaps in Open Infrastructure: Stories from Jordan, Malawi, and Vietnam
How can open infrastructure strengthen research visibility, data sharing, and collaboration in different regional and institutional contexts? In this webinar, project leaders from Jordan, Malawi, and Vietnam present initiatives supported through the second cohort of the DataCite Global Access Fund. They discuss the challenges they encountered, lessons learned during implementation, their project outcomes, and plans for long-term sustainability.
ASREN DataCite Consortium: A Pathway to Boost Research Visibility, Track Impact, and Enable Open Science in MENA
This webinar, hosted by the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), will provide an opportunity to learn more about DataCite’s services and infrastructure. Mohamad Mostafa, Community Specialist at DataCite, will highlight the new DataCite membership model and outline a pathway for organizations in the Middle East and North Africa interested in improving the visibility of their research outputs, resources, and activities through the ASREN–DataCite Consortium.
The 62nd Meeting of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network Conference
The Grand Millennium Hotel 71 Mayoral Drive, Cnr Vincent Street, Auckland, New ZealandIn his virtual presentation, Mohamad Mostafa will give an overview of DataCite as a global open persistent identifier (PID) infrastructure and its role in supporting DOIs for outputs through open and connected metadata. He will highlight the new service-oriented membership model and ongoing work to strengthen equitable participation and adoption across the Asia-Pacific region in collaboration with APAN.
DataCite Harvesters Interest Group Meeting: 2 September 2026
Join us for the second meeting of the Harvesters Interest Group in 2026. The DataCite Harvesters Interest Group provides a space for community members interested in metadata harvesting. The meeting is open to DataCite community members who harvest, analyze, or reuse DataCite metadata, or who are interested in this topic. The DataCite team will share updates and new features, facilitate community discussion, and explain how you can share your ideas with them.
Enabling Open Science in Africa with DataCite: Insights and Use Cases
DataCite Community Specialist Mohamad Mostafa will present at a webinar hosted by the UbuntuNet Alliance as part of the newly launched Open Pan-African Repository Community of Practice (OPAR) Open Science Webinar Series. He will share DataCite use cases from across Africa, introduce DataCite’s new membership model, and explore how DOIs and open metadata can help African institutions increase the discoverability, accessibility, and impact of diverse research outputs.
International Research Software Conference (IRSC) 2026
The Wave, The University of Sheffield 2 Whitham Rd, Sheffield, United KingdomMaria Levchenko will explore how DataCite DOIs for research software support long-term preservation, consistent identification, and reproducibility. She will demonstrate how the DataCite Metadata Schema can be used to connect software with related outputs, and highlight use cases and practical examples from DataCite members.
Enabling Open Science and Increasing Somali Research Visibility through the SomaliREN–DataCite Consortium
Join Mohamad Mostafa from DataCite and SomaliREN for a webinar introducing the proposed SomaliREN–DataCite Consortium, the opportunities offered by DataCite’s new membership model and the cost-effective membership pathways it creates for universities and research organizations to access DataCite’s infrastructure.