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Project THOR
Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research. Research funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654039.
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This blog post by Martin Fenner has been cross-posted from the DataCite blog. On July 12, 2016, DataCite invited Andreas Rauber to present the recommendations for dynamic data citation of the RDA Data Citation Working Group in a webinar. Andreas is one of the co-chairs of the RDA working group, and he gave a throughout overview of the recommendations, and the thinking that went into them.

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On Thursday July 7 2016, project THOR organised the workshop: Identifiers – Infrastructure, Impact and Innovation to showcase the research and work done by all THOR partners during the project’s first year. The event in Amsterdam attracted a mixed audience of representatives from publishing companies, universities and research institutions.

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On April 17, as part of FORCE 2016 in Portland Oregon, Crossref, and THOR partners DataCite and ORCID convened a workshop to discuss the current state of the art in organisation identifiers. We discussed this issue previously in a post on the ORCID blog, and we’re pleased to report back to you all that the workshop was a big success.

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The THOR Project is looking for an early-career library science specialist to work with our team at CERN on the forefront of Open Science services for the High Energy Physics community, focusing on persistent identifiers and metadata requirements. As a large scale scientific laboratory, CERN produces research data in high volume and demands sophisticated data management and preservation efforts.

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THOR’s Project Coordinator Adam Farquhar (British Library) recently delivered a keynote at Our Digital Future. The conference, which was held in Cambridge on 14−15 March 2016, addressed challenges in long term preservation and archiving of digital data across a wide range of disciplines. His talk, titled “Diamonds are forever.

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On Thursday February 25th project THOR organised a workshop about the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) within the biosciences community at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, UK. EMBL-EBI are a THOR partner, and the event drew a capacity crowd. Team members from ORCID EU and EBI gave presentations on the scope and future of ORCID and the use of ORCID iDs and Research Object Identifiers (ROIs) at EBI.