“Project” is being added to the DataCite ResourceTypeGeneral vocabulary in the next release. Many DataCite members are already describing projects with DataCite metadata. Establishing a baseline is a step towards establishing community guidelines and examples of good ideas for how projects might be used.
Metadata forms the backbone of open scholarly infrastructure, enabling the discoverability, accessibility, and understanding of research outputs and resources. When repositories register Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) with DataCite, they use the DataCite Metadata Schema to describe each research output or resource. The six required metadata properties ensure that each record has the essential information to facilitate citation and retrieval. To support interoperability across systems, the DataCite Metadata Schema also includes properties beyond the mandatory six which can be used to establish connections between works, people, and organizations—all linked using persistent identifiers. Together, these connections form the PID Graph of relationships between research outputs and resources, as well as to related people and organizations. This blog post explores how repositories can include related persistent identifiers (PIDs) in their DOI metadata and highlights the FAIR Island project as a case study, demonstrating the potential of rich, interconnected metadata. This case study will highlight the connections described above between people, organizations, and research outputs and resources.
DataCite and ARDC are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to deliver RAiD, a service and system to identify and track research projects and activities. The DataCite–ARDC partnership is a pivotal step in providing a fast, robust, high quality, and reliable RAiD service for researchers that will be sustained over the long term. DataCite is a community-led organisation with a vision to connect research and advance knowledge. ARDC is Australia’s leading research data infrastructure facility and is the Australian DataCite Consortium Lead. RAiD is an ISO standard (23527) with ARDC as the global RAiD ISO Registration Authority. RAiD is expanding internationally and later this year will be incorporated into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Introduction The DataCite Metadata Schema was developed to provide identification and citation metadata for a wide variety of resource types and it has been successfully used for many resource types for nearly two decades.