Writing out an acronym the first time you use it works well in technical writing. Use the same rule in your affiliations! Is it Metadata Game Changers or Mitsubishi Gas Chemical?

Can communities around domain repositories be used to increase connectivity for researchers and organizations in those communities? The UNAVCO repository suggests that the answer is yes.

Can metadata from journal articles be used to augment dataset metadata?

Metadata metrics over the last five years demonstrate that communities and repositories can work together to improve metadata.

The UNAVCO community is the most common creator of datasets in the UNAVCO repository. They need to be recognized for those contributions. Adding an identifier for the community increases the % of DOIs with complete connectivity from 6 to 30%.

Adding identifiers for organizations is an important step in the process of increasing connectivity in metadata collections. Organizations make many contributions to domain repositories so each identifier is used many times. In the UNAVCO case, thirty-five identifiers were used over two thousand times.

Domain repositories build strong communities of people and organizations that contribute data, expertise and scientific results. These communities thrive on active connections between data, papers, people, and organizations. Multiple contributions and real-world connections make domain repositories great places for adoption of identifiers and virtual connections that build the PID graph.

We are thrilled to announce that Metadata Game Changers is partnering with Openscapes, housed at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis on a new NASA-funded, three year project!

Measuring metadata completeness is a great way to identify good examples and low-hanging fruit for improvement. A Pidapalloza talk from last week described results from a recent assessment of 144 repositories from the TIB DataCite Consortium with respect to recommendations for FAIR metadata. Overall, the seven mandatory DataCite fields dominate these repositories, but several great examples that go beyond the mandatory were identified.

In honor of PIDapalooza 2021 and 25 hours of Persistent Identifier discussion happening today, we thought a post celebrating the power of PIDs for increasing connectivity and how to measure that connectivity is in order. Let’s party on 🥳 Discovery Before Conectivity (BC) : For many years we have thought about discovery in terms of web portals with text search boxes, maps, timelines, facets, or some other kind of interface.