Affiliations and identifiers are critical for building a connected research community across the world. The contribution made to that connected resource for University datasets in DataCite is limited by the paucity of the required organizational identifiers.

DataCite has a long history of registering DOIs for a variety of resource types.

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I will describe how the DataCite metadata facets help me improve my understanding of DataCite metadata usage in this blog and introduce some software that can help you answer your questions about DataCite metadata usage.

The DataCite metadata model includes rich information about over 18 million items with DOIs. The schema includes at least four elements that describe organizations: publisher, creator, contributor, and fundingReference. Each of these elements has interesting characteristics. Let’s explore them!