Roadmap
Guided by our multi-year strategic vision and with the collaboration of our global community, our roadmap is focused on iterative development of trusted and sustainable open infrastructure and persistent identifier services to make research outputs, activities, and resources findable, citable, connected, and reused globally.
Our roadmap is continuously evolving as the research landscape evolves. The information below provides a high-level view of current areas of focus as well as others on the horizon. All of our efforts are focused on driving the following strategic outcomes:
- Metadata quality and completeness
- Usability and discoverability of metadata and services
- Infrastructure integrity and scalability
We invite community members to contribute feedback about new product features and enhancements as well as metadata schema suggestions. Share your ideas, see others’ ideas, and learn more about our feedback process on GitHub.
For troubleshooting support or general questions, contact support@datacite.org.
Current Activities
Recent highlights
New metadata quality snapshot for all DataCite DOIs in the Metadata Dashboard
Learn more in the June 2026 release notes
Improvements to web accessibility in across DataCite services
Learn more in the May 2026 release notes
New API parameter to find resources based on affiliation country
Learn more in the April 2026 release notes
Working on
Support metadata enrichments from external sources to improve metadata precision and completeness
Learn more about the latest work, explore the new API features, and contribute your feedback in our open Request for comment: Metadata enrichments in practice
Improve user authentication and credentialing
Improve citation reporting services
Learn more about this initiative in our Request for comment: Help improve citation tracking and reporting
Enhance DOI health and impact reporting tools for repositories
Help shape the future of DataCite DOI resolution statistics by taking our short survey: Survey on DOI Resolution Statistics