When I started as DataCite Technical Director four months ago, my first post (Fenner, 2015) on this blog was about what I called Data-Driven Development . The post included a lot of ideas on how to approach development and technical infrastructure. In this post I want to take a second look.
This week I start as the new DataCite Technical Director. While I get up to speed with existing DataCite services and infrastructure, and we start to launch new services (e.g. this blog), this is also a good time to communicate the overall approach I am taking. I like to call it <strong> <strong> Data-Driven Development </strong> </strong> , or <strong> <strong> DDD </strong> </strong> as we all love acronyms.
Everything we have gained by opening content and data will be under threat if we allow the enclosure of scholarly infrastructures. We propose a set of principles by which Open Infrastructures to support the research community could be run and sustained. The live version of this document may be found at the link below.