Hi there, I’m Katharina and I joined DataCite in October 2024 as the new Finance Manager. I wanted to take a moment to share a bit more about myself—my background, experience, and what I hope to bring to our team and community. My journey to science and data started with a passion for biology at school and continued at university while studying Plant Sciences.

The Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for Instruments Community Dialogue , hosted by DataCite and Metadata Game Changers, brought together a diverse group of experts to explore how PIDs can transform the identification of scientific instruments and the data they collect.

DataCite welcomed over 370 participants from almost 300 institutions across 59 countries to our Annual Community Meeting on 25 September 2024.  The DataCite Community Meeting was held across 10 sessions in three blocks and spanning all time zones, with some sessions repeated to give a regional focus.

One of the key benefits of having openly accessible metadata for a scholarly record is to easily identify and expose the relations among works—for example, investigations conducted in different domains that cite the same literature, results reported by different teams that drew from the same datasets, or projects outputs delivered years ago that inspired new experiments or methodology. These relations have always existed, but are often hidden due to variable archiving conventions and siloed preservation and communication practices. With properly implemented persistent identifier (PID) workflows, however, they can be readily discovered and be fed back into the research process, supporting evidence-based assessment. 

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As we approach the 2025 election, an exciting chapter for our community, the Election Committee is steering a process that will shape the future of DataCite’s leadership.

As a global community, DataCite encourages involvement from people that share our vision: to ensure that research outputs and resources are openly available and connected so that their reuse can advance knowledge across and between disciplines, now and in the future.

hrough the 2021 partnership between DataCite and IGSN e.V., DataCite services can be used to register International Generic Sample Numbers (IGSN IDs) for material samples. Over the coming months, the blog series ‘IGSN ID Implementation Exemplars’ will showcase sample management workflows developed by the community that incorporate IGSN ID registration. In each post, we offer practical guidance on how to work alongside disciplinary sample experts to register IGSN IDs within DataCite services.

RSpace is an open-source research platform for institutional research data management, maintained by Research Space. It consists of an electronic lab notebook (ELN) and inventory management system that integrate with various tools, enabling you to connect and access various aspects of your existing workflows and build upon them in ways that enhance their FAIRness. A major component of RSpace is the Inventory system—a customisable and mobile-friendly sample management system. In collaboration with DataCite, RSpace has prototyped a seamless integration of IGSN IDs within the Inventory module such that you can naturally draft, edit the sample metadata for, and publish IGSN IDs. RSpace is not only a DataCite Registered Service Provider, it is the first service provider on the program to offer IGSN ID registration services to DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations.

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The DataCite Metadata Working Group has a new Request for Comments (RFC) with several proposed changes to the DataCite Metadata Schema, and we want to hear your feedback. We are looking for input on the following proposed changes: Adding a new resourceTypeGeneral: Award Adding a new relationType: Other Adding a new sub-property to RelatedIdentifier: relationTypeInformation You can leave comments and suggestions directly on the RFC Google Doc.

The DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF) is a strategic initiative designed to enhance equitable access to research infrastructure by supporting organizations in regions and communities currently underrepresented in the global […]

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A key challenge for researchers is keeping track of project activities across the research lifecycle. Unlike a grant, which a researcher receives, a project is something that a researcher does. Project information is dynamic; what is planned is not necessarily what is delivered, while project contributors and organizations may change over time.

DataCite use cases around the world: Welcome to our blog series shining a spotlight on how research institutions integrate DataCite infrastructure into their systems and workflows.