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Panels & Perspectives: Panel on Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics took place at AG01, Thursday, October 1st 2026 in the College Building, City St George’s, University of London. The panel successfully explored how graphic novels can challenge stereotypes, create connections and invite readers to the world from different perspectives. The session was well attended with the room at full capacity.
\n\n\n\nCalling upon the powerful true stories behind their work, graphic novelists Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum and Zara Slattery examined how comics can make visible experiences that are often overlooked, opening up conversations about disability, neurodiversity, care and belonging.
\n\n\n\nThe event coincided with the official UK release of Gemma Plum's The Great Marc Evers. The True Story of a Champion Against All Odds (Selfmadehero 2026), which tells in comics form 'the inspiring life story of one of the greatest Paralympic swimming champions, and his family that stopped focusing on a \"no\" to find a \"yes\".'
\n\n\n\nEach member of the panel spoke of what had first drawn them to graphic storytelling, and made a short presentation about each of the books featured in the event, with themes related to disability and neurodiversity:
\n\n\n\nThe Most Amazing Saturday Morning Rubbish Club, by Francisco de la Mora and Bill Tuckey (Selfmadehero, 2025).
\n\n\n\nThe Great Marc Evers: The True Story of a Champion Against All Odds, by Gemma Plum, Ivo van Woerden and Marloes Dekkers (Selfmadehero 2026), and
\n\n\n\nComa, by Zara Slattery (Myriad Editions, 2021).
\n\n\n\nInternal and external participants, including Human Computer Interaction Design MSc students from the 2025-26 and 2026-27 cohort, who engaged in the Q&A and chatted with the authors, bought their books and got them signed after the panel over refreshments.
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This event also provided an opportunity to talk about Ernesto's Parables of Care project creating comics about dementia care, and copies were distributed freely with participants who had not heard of the project before.
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This activity also informally launched my Sabbatical research leave!
\n\n\n\nThis event was organised in collaboration with comics publisher Selfmadehero.
\n\n\n\nParticipants consented to being photographed for documentation purposes. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated; it was a joyous occasion.
\n\n\n\n","doi":"https://doi.org/10.59350/ymbc3-w2j61","guid":"https://ernestopriego.com/?p=11990","image":"https://i0.wp.com/ernestopriego.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-1.jpeg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1790899200,"rid":"pw0n8-ynh06","summary":" Panels & Perspectives: Panel on Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics took place at AG01, Thursday, October 1 st 2026 in the College Building, City St George's, University of London. The panel successfully explored how graphic novels can challenge stereotypes, create connections and invite readers to the world from different perspectives. The session was well attended with the room at full capacity.","tags":["Comics","Events"],"title":"Panels and Perspectives: Exploring Disability and Neurodiversity Through Comics","updated_at":1790951038,"url":"https://ernestopriego.com/2026/10/02/panels-and-perspectives-exploring-disability-and-neurodiversity-through-comics/","version":"v1"}},{"document":{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"name":"DataCite Staff"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"DataCite Staff"}],"community_id":"916f4925-a9f6-4b4d-b823-c769ef054f15","created":1733529600,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge","doi":null,"favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/916f4925-a9f6-4b4d-b823-c769ef054f15/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://datacite.org/blog/feed/atom/","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://datacite.org/blog/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":null,"relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"datacite","status":"active","subfield":"1710","title":"DataCite Blog - DataCite","updated":1789551039,"use_api":false},"blog_name":"DataCite Blog - DataCite","blog_slug":"datacite","content_html":"DataCite brings together descriptive metadata for millions of research outputs, resources, and activities, serving systems across the world that rely on DataCite for high-quality metadata to put research in context and enable downstream discovery, reuse, and impact. As a vital source of open data and a foundational infrastructure provider, we are committed to making DataCite metadata as open and as usable as possible. In line with that objective, we are excited to release our latest annual public data file and also announce the launch of a new monthly data file service.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur latest public data file, which we release on an annual basis, is now available for 2025. In 2025, the DataCite community registered over 36 million DOIs, and the DataCite metadata store surpassed 100 million total DOIs during the year. DataCite Members also updated over 23 million existing DOIs, working collaboratively to improve metadata quality through richer description, connections to other persistent identifiers, and relationships across outputs and activities.
\n\n\n\nThe new public data file contains metadata for 108 million DataCite DOIs in Findable state that were registered up to the end of 2025. This data file follows the same structure as our previous public data file, as described in our support documentation.
\n\n\n\nYou can get a link to download the public data file via our data files portal.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo facilitate more frequent metadata harvesting, we're launching a new monthly data file service. Each month, we'll release a new data file containing metadata for all DataCite DOIs. Users can conveniently access the latest updates to DataCite metadata, making it easier for metadata harvesters to identify DOIs that have been recently created or updated. The monthly snapshot is currently available to all DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations, who can use their existing member, consortium organization, or repository credentials to authenticate and download the file.
\n\n\n\nYou can read more about working with the monthly data file in our support documentation.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to the public data file and monthly data file, we continue to support many ways to explore and work with DataCite metadata. Our REST API supports real-time access to metadata for discovery and integration into systems and workflows. DataCite Commons offers an interface for exploring metadata connections, making it easier to understand the relationships between works, people, organizations, and repositories.
\n\n\n\nWe also work closely with a growing ecosystem of metadata harvesters and aggregators that reuse DataCite metadata to power downstream services. You can find an overview of these metadata harvesters on our website, highlighting how DataCite metadata is reused across the scholarly infrastructure.\u00a0
\n\n\n\nWe are continuing to develop harvesting-related features and want to hear from you about future enhancements you would like to see. Join the DataCite Harvesters Interest Group to stay tuned about the latest developments\u2014everyone is also welcome at our next DataCite Harvesters Interest Group Meeting on 28 January 2026.
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Imagine having a super-powered map that connects every important idea, tool, and discovery in mathematics \u2014 that's what zbMATH, and its incorporated platforms such as swMATH, a specific portal for mathematical research software, do. These platforms are like the ultimate librarians of math research, gathering and organizing knowledge from academic papers, software, datasets, and even citation networks. But they don't just collect information; they make it smarter.
\n\n\n\nThey use persistent identifiers (PIDs) to weave a web of connections between research outputs, software, datasets, and authors. Think of it as a digital trail of breadcrumbs that never disappears\u2014ensuring that every piece of research stays discoverable, traceable, and reusable for years to come.
\n\n\n\nWhy does this matter? Because in the fast-moving world of math, discoverability and reproducibility are everything. With PIDs, zbMATH Open helps researchers pinpoint exactly how a theorem, algorithm, or software tool evolves across different studies. No more dead ends or broken links\u2014just clearer, more transparent math.
\n\n\n\nIn short, they're not just databases; they're the connective tissue of modern mathematical research, making sure that every breakthrough is built on solid, well-documented ground.
\n\n\n\nAn opportunity to strengthen this backbone came through the FAIRCORE4EOSC (FC4E) project, a strategic initiative aimed at developing core components that advance the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). A central focus of this initiative is the PIDGraph, a key component designed to enhance research interoperability by establishing persistent, structured links between scholarly entities, including publications, datasets, software, and researchers. To demonstrate its effectiveness, FC4E incorporates case studies that explore the integration of domain-specific metadata into the PIDGraph, ensuring seamless connectivity between research objects. One such case study, led by the mathematical community through FIZ, seeks to integrate zbMATH Open services into the PIDGraph, enriching metadata with manually curated and aggregated information. This integration facilitates advanced discoverability, interlinks mathematical research software with broader scientific outputs, and extends the reach of zbMATH Open within the EOSC ecosystem, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and enhancing the overall transparency and accessibility of research knowledge. Thus, this integration not only enhances the visibility and accessibility of mathematical research software but also ensures that mathematicians who contribute to its development receive proper recognition and the credit they deserve.
Beginning in late 2023, following on from discussions at the in-person FC4E project meeting in The Hague ahead of the Beta Release Milestone of the project, the teams from DataCite and FIZ Karlsruhe had a series of meetings to lay the groundwork for the collaborative work necessary to integrate the Mathematics Case Study with the PID Graph component.
\n\n\n\nA key outcome from these meetings was the decision to focus on using the enhancements in zbMATH Open to records that were associated with existing DataCite-registered DOIs (primarily preprints registered through arXiv) to also enrich the PIDGraph data by ingesting new connections between those records and other scholarly research outputs, such as citations and references, as well as other entities represented by PIDs within the graph.
\n\n\n\nBy bringing in a new source of curated, high-quality metadata, the utility of the PIDGraph would be enhanced by the broadening of coverage, and downstream consumers of the graph data would have access to the zbMATH Open data through an existing and interoperable system, providing benefit to the wider scholarly community.
\n\n\n\nAs part of the FAIRCORE4EOSC initiative, significant collaborative efforts were undertaken to map zbMATH Open and swMATH metadata for articles and software respectively to the DataCite Metadata Schema and metadata guidelines using XSLT. This process was facilitated through close cooperation between Mike Bennett on behalf of DataCite and Shiraz Malla Mohamad and Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz representing FIZ Karlsruhe.
\n\n\n\nIt started with the production of an initial XSLT crosswalk between the zbMATH metadata and the DataCite Metadata Schema produced by the zbMATH team, and simultaneous architecture planning and code development at DataCite to prepare for inclusion of the new source of data.
\n\n\n\nOnce the first crosswalk was created, a sample set of data from zbMATH Open was transformed to the DataCite Metadata Schema. With the assistance of other colleagues from the wider DataCite team, some recommendations for fixing inconsistencies with the schema and improving the provision of data in appropriate fields were produced and implemented by the FIZ team, ultimately leading to a comprehensive transformation of the data into a form compatible with DataCite systems.
\n\n\n\nThere were some challenges along the way \u2013 for example, not every record contained enough data to populate all of the properties that are required by the DataCite Metadata Schema, and data licensing requirements meant that some data could not be openly shared. By making use of the standardised values for unknown information provided by the schema, both of these problems were overcome, allowing the XML records to meet the validation requirements for mandatory fields.
\n\n\n\nAnother issue was the strict order requirements for elements imposed by the XSD used for validating the schema, where any deviation would result in metadata validation errors despite the data being present and correct. This was corrected during the rounds of feedback and had the added bonus of providing useful input into discussions for the design of the next version of the DataCite Metadata Schema.
\n\n\n\nWhilst the work on producing the crosswalks was ongoing at FIZ, the DataCite team was busy with adding a new ingest agent to the Event Data service to handle the ingestion of the data from the zbMATH OAI server. By integrating the new source into an existing system for sharing PID connections, it was possible to take advantage of connected functionality to provide increased utility and visibility of the data – for example, the DataCite Commons frontend would automatically include any new citations and references derived from the data in the visual display of DOI records.
\n\n\n\nThis new code for ingesting from OAI also went through several rounds of development and improvement, with each pass improving the amount and quality of the data added to the system, and tackling challenges inherent in the OAI-PMH protocol and the sheer quantity of data provided by the zbMATH Open service.
\n\n\n\nShiraz and Mike worked meticulously to ensure a flawless implementation and this iterative approach, supported by regular discussions online and strengthened through in-person meetings at FC4E events, led to the successful integration of metadata, meeting the expected standards and enhancing interoperability between zbMATH Open, swMATH, and DataCite services.
\n\n\n\nOnce both the crosswalk and ingestion code were complete, the focus switched to ingesting the data into DataCite production systems and making it available as part of the PIDGraph services and the full set of transformed data was processed to extract relevant connections between PID and add them to the Event Data service, instantly surfacing them through all PIDGraph systems.
\n\n\n\nOverall, several million new connections were ingested into the graph, significantly enhancing the records covered (for example, this record gained 82 new references, none of which were previously known to the graph).
\n\n\n\nThe ingested data also became part of the latest release of the DataCite PID Links Data File and was also published to Zenodo as a dedicated dataset, providing additional avenues for consumption and reuse.
\n\n\n\nBy using the well-adopted DataCite Metadata Schema for the records, and the provision of the data via the standardised OAI-PMH protocol, we committed to promoting the usage of interoperable methods of data exchange. This also ensured that the data can be harvested and reused by other interested parties, both from the PIDGraph services and from the zbMATH Open OAI server.
\n\n\n\nAlthough the scoping of this work to connections between PIDs was defined by the requirements of the FAIRCORE4EOSC project, where the PIDGraph component had a requirement to ingest new vertices into the graph, the zbMATH Open records have further enhancements to the metadata of the records (for example subject classification using controlled vocabularies) that have the potential to provide more enrichment of the DataCite DOI records in the future.
\n\n\n\nAs DataCite works towards the goal of enriching and enhancing DOI metadata, we look forward to exploring future possibilities and partnerships to enhance the scholarly record for the benefit of the entire community, building on the work done during this collaboration.
\n\n\n\nThe work to produce the data, ingest it, and generate the PID Links data file was made possible through support from the FAIRCORE4EOSC project. FAIRCORE4EOSC has received funding from the EU's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101057264.
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\n\n\n\nBuilding a local community is therefore essential to deal with the adoption of PIDs, including DOIs. A strong, collaborative network should facilitate the sharing of knowledge, resources, and best practices, ensuring that all stakeholders are well-informed and engaged. This community-driven approach not only promotes the widespread use of DOIs but also fosters innovation and efficiency in managing digital resources.
\n\n\n\nTo address this need, the Tunisian DOI Consortium initiative was established, led by CNUDST and supported by a GAF award from DataCite. The consortium will provide a platform for institutions to pool resources, share knowledge, and engage collectively with open infrastructures such as DataCite.
\n\n\n\nOur partnership with DataCite has been instrumental to the project’s success. DataCite offers tools and resources that simplify the assignment of DOIs to digital and physical objects. A significant advantage of this collaboration is DataCite’s commitment to promoting openness and implementing open science principles. Indeed, all metadata registered with DataCite DOIs is publicly available, which aligns with our goal of enhancing the visibility of Tunisian research.
\n\n\n\nThe primary goal of the Tunisian DOI Consortium is to create a sustainable national community that enhances the adoption and implementation of DOIs across the country and thus, should effectively utilize DataCite's open infrastructure. This infrastructure is crucial for improving the visibility of Tunisian research outputs on a global scale, thereby fostering greater international collaboration and recognition for Tunisian researchers.
\n\n\n\nThe Tunisian DOI Consortium kick-off was marked by a webinar hosted by CNUDST, which highlighted the partnership with DataCite and outlined the project's objectives and expected outcomes. The webinar also extended an invitation to local communities and stakeholders to respond to the call to join, emphasizing the collaborative effort needed to achieve the consortium's goals.
\n\n\n\nThe initiative involves key academic partners, producers, and publishers of research resources. More than 30 entities have joined this initiative, including among others:
\n\n\n\nMoreover, as part of its involvement in the DataCite Consortium Partnership Program giving support to align with DataCite's mission of promoting best practices for establishing DOI consortia globally, CNUDST organized a webinar on June 6, 2024. The primary event goal was to equip attendees with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively contribute to developing the consortium's operational frameworks. The one-hour session featured insights into the establishment and governance of DOI consortia, with experts from DataCite and representatives from international consortia in France, Canada, and the UK sharing their experiences. The objective was to familiarize potential members with best practices and sustainable consortium models.
\n\n\n\nA key event in the implementation of this initiative was the workshop titled “Tunisian DOI Consortium: Implementation and Sustainable Management,” which took place on June 26, 2024. This workshop encapsulated pivotal discussions on how to effectively implement and manage the consortium to ensure its sustainability and success in the Tunisian context.
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A significant outcome of the workshop was the creation of a charter for the consortium, outlining membership rights and the roles of each member institution. The charter also details the fee structure for joining and governance procedures necessary for effective decision-making and collaboration. By establishing clear guidelines, it aims to foster a cohesive and transparent environment, ensuring all parties understand their responsibilities and benefits within the consortium. To move forward, we propose submitting this charter for approval by the decision-making heads of the participating institutions. This step is essential to formalize the consortium and lay the groundwork for its successful operation.
\n\n\n\nAcross all organized events, more than 200 participants joined us. This strong turnout reflects the growing interest and engagement in our initiatives, highlighting the commitment of individuals and institutions to advancing our collective goals.
\n\n\n\nCurrently, activities focus on assigning DOIs to collected unpublished digital research outputs and published ones across over ten online scientific journals. Some of these journals have successfully achieved automatic registration with the assistance of technical support of CNUDST's staff, by integrating their publishing platform with the DataCite infrastructure via the DataCite API. In other cases, manual registration has been completed using the Fabrica web interface. Additionally, efforts are underway to integrate with PIST.TN, the Tunisian national repository, now allows users to export MARC XML records to DataCite XML.
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In September, we began to see some ambitious results, with the number of registered DOIs exceeding 400 within just two weeks. This achievement includes contributions from notable publications such as the Tunisian Journal of Clinical Biology (RTBC), the INSTM Bulletin: Marine and Freshwater Sciences, Dir\u0101s\u0101t Hisp\u0101nicas. Tunisian Journal of Hispanic Studies, and the Biomedicine & Healthcare\u202fResearch Journal (BHR). These significant milestones reflect the growing momentum and impact of our initiatives in the Tunisian research landscape.
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Feedback from researchers and institutions has been largely positive. However, challenges have arisen, particularly regarding awareness and adoption of DOIs. Key lessons learned include the importance of ongoing communication and training to overcome these barriers.
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Since its inception, the Tunisian DOI Consortium has made significant progress in promoting the use of DOIs in Tunisia. Several institutions have joined, leading to a steady increase in registered DOIs.
\n\n\n\nLooking ahead, we plan to expand our outreach to more institutions nationwide and provide training and support to help them maximize the benefits of DOIs. In the final trimester of the project, we will continue to train researchers on DOI usage, share best practices, and engage the community to strengthen support for the initiative.
\n\n\n\nThe consortium exemplifies how collaboration and resource sharing can address challenges in adopting global standards of scholarly communication. Our experience with DataCite highlights the value of partnerships in advancing open-access initiatives, and we hope our journey will inspire other countries to pursue similar efforts.
\n\n\n\nOverall, the Tunisian DOI Consortium represents a strategic move towards integrating Tunisia into the global research community by enhancing research visibility and accessibility. It significantly advances the academic landscape by improving collaboration and resource access. We aim to help local libraries provide training on DOI usage, encourage government support through favorable policies, and engage other stakeholders to foster a robust research environment.
\n\n\n\nTo learn more, we invite you to explore the resources available on the CNUDST website and follow our upcoming activities on social media!
\n\n\n\nDataCite welcomed over 370 participants from almost 300 institutions across 59 countries to our Annual Community Meeting on 25 September 2024.
\n\n\n\nThe DataCite Community Meeting was held across 10 sessions in three blocks and spanning all time zones, with some sessions repeated to give a regional focus. As ever, a number of sessions were designed to give our global community insights into DataCite, our current status, and the path ahead:
\n\n\n\nFollowing the DataCite annual vision for 2024, the Community Meeting had a focus on metadata quality and completeness. In particular, two 'Metadata in Focus' sessions led by Sara El-Gebali (DataCite Metadata Specialist) demonstrated how the community can harness the power of PID-associated metadata. These sessions highlighted that DataCite DOI metadata is openly available, queryable via our APIs, and can be used to create visualizations for reporting. The sessions added to a better understanding of the importance of metadata completeness by illustrating real-world examples. As such, DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations were given a picture of how the quality and completeness of their own metadata can lead to improved discoverability, connectivity, and interoperability of their research outputs.
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The benefits brought by having rich, high-quality metadata were also apparent in the 'Harvester Roundtable'. In this panel session, representatives from three organizations that ingest DataCite metadata\u2014OpenAIRE AMKE, Clarivate Analytics, and OurResearch (through their service OpenAlex)\u2014explained how their cutting-edge tools interact with DataCite services to expose research outputs for discovery and reuse. A clear take-home message from the session was that researchers can help others better locate their outputs within discovery systems by enhancing the completeness of the associated metadata. The session attracted well over 100 participants, who remarked in the post-session survey that they appreciated this rare opportunity to hear from metadata aggregators and enjoyed the lively Q&A session.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[The details of this session helped] \u2026\" enhance my encouragement to researchers that metadata is important, and shouldn’t be dismissed.\"
\nResponse to the post-session survey question, 'Which elements of the session did you like most?' for the first 'Metadata in Focus' session.
In our efforts to be ever more inclusive of the global community, we incorporated sessions for those in regions currently underrepresented in our member community. The Community Meeting started with a session that introduced DataCite, and shared the experiences of two institutions in the APAC region (Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal) who are using our services. Two other sessions showcased outreach and infrastructure development projects in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America that were awarded grants under the first round of the DataCite Global Access Fund.
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With the 2024 Annual Community Meeting wrapped up, it just leaves us to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who joined us during the day, to all of the presenters, and to DataCite colleagues for putting the sessions together and working tirelessly to make sure they went smoothly. It is especially gratifying that from over 200 responses to post-session surveys, greater than 75% of participants said that they found the session they attended to be very or extremely useful. We will strive to do even better in 2025. If you have any suggestions for next year’s meeting, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@datacite.org
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\n\n\n\nIndividuals from DataCite member organizations (Direct Members, Supporting Members, and Consortium Leads) are eligible to stand for election. In support of equity, diversity, and balanced geographical representation, we especially encourage applications from the Middle East & North Africa and Europe, while welcoming candidates from all regions and backgrounds.
\n\n\n\nStep forward to help shape DataCite's future; nominate yourself or another eligible individual.
Applications close at the end of the day on 28 February 2026, with elections taking place at the General Assembly in April 2026.
At DataCite, we enable DOI registration for a wide variety of research outputs: from samples and images to data and preprints. In this post, we'll spotlight the resource types that our community is using DataCite DOIs for.
\n\n\n\nThe DataCite Metadata Schema has always supported a range of resource types. The \"resourceType\" property has a required attribute, \"resourceTypeGeneral\", which uses a controlled list to ensure consistent terminology across metadata records. In addition to the required \"resourceTypeGeneral\" attribute, repositories can also add further detail or specificity by including free text for the \"resourceType\" property.
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In 2011, Version 2.0 of the metadata schema included eleven options for specifying the resource type (resourceTypeGeneral). Since then, DataCite and the DataCite Metadata Working Group have updated this list in response to community feedback and the needs of DataCite Members. As Version 4.4, the schema includes 28 options for the resourceTypeGeneral attribute:
Audiovisual
Book
BookChapter
Collection
ComputationalNotebook
ConferencePaper
ConferenceProceeding
DataPaper
Dataset
Dissertation
Event
Image
InteractiveResource
Journal
JournalArticle
Model
OutputManagementPlan
PeerReview
PhysicalObject
Preprint
Report
Service
Software
Sound
Standard
Text
Workflow
Other
Our Members and Consortium Organizations have made use of all 28 of these resource types. Looking at DOIs that have been registered by our community over all time, we see that Dataset, Physical Object, Text, Image, Other, and Preprint are the top five resource types (as of October 2023):
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Put another way, resource types other than Dataset make up nearly 70% of DataCite DOIs today.
\n\n\n\nOver time, we've seen the distribution of resource types shift as new resource types are added and adopted by our community. This animation shows how resource type adoption has changed since 2004:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDataCite Members have registered over eleven million DOIs for physical objects in 2023. The majority of these DOIs are for IGSN IDs, which are globally unique and persistent identifiers for material samples. Through the partnership between IGSN e.V. and DataCite, IGSN Allocating Agents completed their re-registration of legacy IGSN IDs within DataCite services in 2023. This means that all IGSN IDs are now functionally DOIs and can be generated, modified, and retrieved using DataCite systems and APIs. DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations can get started with registering IGSN IDs by reviewing our support documentation.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDataCite Members registered over 980 thousand DOIs with the Text resource type this year. The \"Text\" resource type has always been one of the most used in the Metadata Schema. In response to our community's increasing use of DataCite DOIs for textual resources, we introduced several new resource types introduced in Schema 4.4 for text-based resources to allow for greater specificity than \"Text\", including Preprint, JournalArticle, Dissertation, and Report. We encourage DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations to use these more specific resource types where applicable, and we are pleased to see the adoption of the new resource types across a range of repositories.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we aim for DataCite DOIs to be suitable for all research outputs and resources, the resource type \"Other\" is available for cases in which the existing resource types do not describe the output/resource. When \"Other\" is selected for resourceTypeGeneral, the free text resourceType field is critical for understanding the nature of the resource.
\n\n\n\nFor this post, we looked at the 1.2 million DOIs with resourceTypeGeneral \"Other\" and analyzed the free text resourceType field. These were the top 15 results:
\n\n\n\nSome of these values do not have a close match within the resourceTypeGeneral controlled vocabulary terms, and may be candidates for inclusion in the term list. The DataCite team plans to do further analysis of resourceType and resourceTypeGeneral usage to inform future updates to the vocabulary.
\n\n\n\nFor cases where there is a close or exact match, we encourage DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations to update the metadata for previously registered DOIs to take advantage of the latest metadata schema. For example, if a DOI was registered with resourceTypeGeneral \"Other\" and resourceType \"Report\", this can be updated to resourceTypeGeneral \"Report\". By updating DOI metadata with an accurate and specific resourceTypeGeneral value, you can help us improve metadata quality for the entire DataCite community.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe're always working with our community to support new resource types. In the upcoming Metadata Schema Version 4.5, we will add two values to resourceTypeGeneral: Instrument and StudyRegistration.
Is there a resource type you would like to see added to the DataCite Metadata Schema? Please get in touch with us! You can fill out the Metadata Schema Suggestions form to share ideas with the DataCite team.
Since 2018, and as part of the global movement towards open science and knowledge as a public good, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) has been working to promote norms and practices of social science research data management (RDM) and sharing among social scientists, information specialists, and research institutions in the Arab region. More specifically, the ACSS work on RDM aims to (1) build capacity in managing research data in the Arab region, and (2) preserve* and facilitate access to social science research data on/in the Arab region by providing data management and sharing infrastructure through ACSS Dataverse.
\n\n\n\nThe ACSS is a regional, independent, non-profit organization based in Beirut that is dedicated to strengthening social science research and knowledge production in the Arab region. Among its objectives are (1) the provision of forums for exchange and communication among social scientists in the Arab region; (2) supporting effective networks among research, academics, practitioners, and other communities; and (3) supporting the dissemination of high-quality social science research in the Arab region.
\n\n\n\nThrough the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF) in 2024 and in alignment with its regional initiatives, DataCite has strengthened its commitment to building a global research ecosystem by providing open infrastructure and persistent identifier (PID) services that connect research and advance knowledge. As part of this effort, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) worked to raise awareness of research data management (RDM) and PIDs in open research infrastructure, aiming to improve research access, visibility, and collaboration for more impactful outcomes. To support this initiative, DataCite facilitated three in-person training workshops on social science RDM and three virtual demonstrations on PIDs and open infrastructure, equipping researchers and institutions with essential knowledge and tools. These efforts reflect DataCite's ongoing dedication to empowering institutions and research communities worldwide, reinforcing its role in strengthening Open Science and advancing global research practices.
\n\n\n\nThe global adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) services faces several challenges, including a lack of awareness across stakeholders, technical expertise, and institutional policies that support their implementation, particularly in regions with emerging research infrastructure. Capacity-building initiatives are essential in addressing these barriers by promoting awareness of PID services, open metadata, open research practices, and open infrastructure, enabling institutions to integrate these components into their research workflows. In the Arab region, gaps in PID adoption stem from limited training opportunities, a lack of localized resources, and varying institutional commitment to open research, which hinder the seamless connection and discoverability of research outputs. To bridge these gaps, capacity-building efforts must take multiple forms, including targeted training workshops, multilingual resources, collaborative webinars, and regional partnerships that equip institutions with the knowledge and tools to implement PIDs effectively. Strengthening these efforts will not only accelerate PID adoption across the region but also contribute to a more interconnected and visible research ecosystem, aligning with global Open Science initiatives and ensuring equitable access to research infrastructure.
\n\n\n\nAs part of the ACSS series of training workshops on social science RDM, three such workshops were organized in 2024 in partnership with DataCite, as well as universities and research centers in the Arab region. Through a combination of teaching and practical exercises, the three training workshops introduced participants to the RDM and data sharing principles, best practices, and tools, highlighting the importance of PIDs for an open research infrastructure. The training materials used in the workshops are bilingual (Arabic and English).
\n\n\n\nIn total, the three training workshops included 56 researchers and information specialists from 16 universities and research centers. The first was held on 3 October 2024 in Ifrane, Morocco, organized with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Mohammed VI Library at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI). It was attended by 19 participants from 4 universities in the Atlas region in Morocco:
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The second workshop took place on 5 October 2024 in Rabat, Morocco, organized with the Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI) in Morocco. It was attended by 16 participants from 5 universities and research centers in the Rabat region:
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The third and final workshop on 2 December 2024 in Cairo, Egypt was organized with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). It was attended by 21 participants from 7 universities and research centers in the Cairo region. (A presentation by the authors given during the workshop is here).
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In addition to the workshops, three virtual demonstration sessions were organized with DataCite for the ACSS community that highlighted the importance of open research infrastructure and the value of adopting various PIDs in research workflows to enable the sharing of research outputs with the broader research community, and enhance their discoverability and reusability. The demonstrations showcased examples of integrating ORCID iDs and DOIs for all research outputs\u2014including theses, dissertations, and datasets\u2014and discussed the added value of the Research Organization Registry for institutions.
The first demonstration was held on 29 May as part of a mandatory RDM training for cohort 4 of ACSS NewGen fellows. The NewGen program, in collaboration with a number of public and private Arab universities, seeks to establish a pipeline for a new generation of committed and well-trained social scientists in the Arab region. It provides distinguished students at the undergraduate and graduate levels with the opportunity to join a two-year multi-component journey including methodological and thematic workshops and courses, as well as research, publishing, and networking activities.
\n\n\n\nThe second demonstration was held on 10 July and was part of the ACSS webinar series that aims to reach a wide audience of social scientists and humanists, as well as activists, practitioners, and professionals in different countries of the region. These webinars help enhance interactions between the ACSS and researchers, and foster/consolidate opportunities for networking with regional and international organizations to enhance knowledge production in the social sciences. The webinar was attended by about 60 people and included a lively Q&A session (a recording of the webinar is here).
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The third demonstration was held on 24 September and was part of the second ACSS Academy that provides an opportunity for selected junior social science researchers in the Arab region to engage with critical theory and analysis, advanced writing and professionalization skills, and networking.
The three demonstrations were attended by around 150 individuals: 100 participants from the ACSS community during the 10 July webinar, 20 ACSS NewGen fellows, and 28 junior social science researchers who attended the ACSS Academy.
\n\n\n\nThe activities undertaken through the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF) award advanced capacity building, with DataCite supporting three in-person training workshops across Egypt and Morocco, alongside three virtual sessions focused on research data management (RDM), persistent identifiers (PIDs), and open metadata. These efforts provided trainees with the knowledge and tools needed to strengthen open research practices and enhance the adoption of PIDs in the region. The capacity-building workshops helped create and support communities of researchers and practitioners to work on RDM within their institutions and professional communities. Indeed, some of the trainees plan to present the materials to their colleagues and students. Additionally, some trainees who have been working in Open Science and RDM, expressed interest in becoming trainers themselves. This project has provided the opportunity for future collaboration with the network of organizations and individuals in the Arab region working on RDM, PIDs, and Open Science; collaborations that could create synergies in these areas.
\n\n\n\nGoing forward, ACSS will continue its collaboration with DataCite to advance capacity building, advocate for open infrastructure, and establish a sustainable path for the ACSS Dataverse. As part of these efforts, DataCite will present on advancing knowledge through PIDs and metadata in the region at the 7th Conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences in May 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon.
* Those interested in preserving their social science datasets in the ACSS Dataverse, please contact datatverse@theacss.org
The global DataCite community is supported by a fully remote team of 21 members, located in 12 countries and speaking more than 20 languages. Once a year, the team meets somewhere in the world to interact in person, remind one another that we are humans rather than 2-D images on screens, and brainstorm topics of current and strategic importance.
\n\n\n\nThe DataCite Team recently descended on Athens for our 2025 retreat, hoping that the goddess Athena would impart us with her wisdom.
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Following the great philosophers of Greece, we spent many of the sessions asking ourselves some fundamental and existential questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What do we do? How do we differ from others? We explored these questions from the viewpoint of different stakeholders in the DataCite community, thinking about what they are trying to achieve, their day-to-day tasks and challenges in realizing these achievements, and how DataCite can continue to address these needs.
\n\n\n\nA key theme throughout our discussions is that our community and the services we offer go hand-in-hand. DataCite was founded and continues to operate today as a community of research organizations, and the services and activities that we support are driven by that ethos and mission.
\n\n\n\nA related theme within our discussions was that of trust and trustworthiness and about DataCite's role as a trusted provider and partner for the research community. It reminded one of the authors of a famous quote from the Greek philosopher Sophocles that
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.\"
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This is typically taken to mean that not only must trust be earned, but that this is not a one-time effort; it can take a long time to build, and then must be continually re-earned.
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As an organization, trust is enshrined in our values. Being trusted by the community is not something the DataCite team takes lightly. We do not \"rest on our laurels\", we instead look to the goddess Nike and strive to continue being victorious in maintaining this trust.
\n\n\n\nWatch this space for the fruits of our labor at the retreat. In the meantime, if you have any questions about DataCite, please contact info@datacite.org.
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\n\n\n\nCalling upon the powerful true stories behind their work, graphic novelists Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum and Zara Slattery examined how comics can make visible experiences that are often overlooked, opening up conversations about disability, neurodiversity, care and belonging.
\n\n\n\nThe event coincided with the official UK release of Gemma Plum's The Great Marc Evers. The True Story of a Champion Against All Odds (Selfmadehero 2026), which tells in comics form 'the inspiring life story of one of the greatest Paralympic swimming champions, and his family that stopped focusing on a \"no\" to find a \"yes\".'
\n\n\n\nEach member of the panel spoke of what had first drawn them to graphic storytelling, and made a short presentation about each of the books featured in the event, with themes related to disability and neurodiversity:
\n\n\n\nThe Most Amazing Saturday Morning Rubbish Club, by Francisco de la Mora and Bill Tuckey (Selfmadehero, 2025).
\n\n\n\nThe Great Marc Evers: The True Story of a Champion Against All Odds, by Gemma Plum, Ivo van Woerden and Marloes Dekkers (Selfmadehero 2026), and
\n\n\n\nComa, by Zara Slattery (Myriad Editions, 2021).
\n\n\n\nInternal and external participants, including Human Computer Interaction Design MSc students from the 2025-26 and 2026-27 cohort, who engaged in the Q&A and chatted with the authors, bought their books and got them signed after the panel over refreshments.
\n\n\n\nThis event also provided an opportunity to talk about Ernesto's Parables of Care project creating comics about dementia care, and copies were distributed freely with participants who had not heard of the project before.
\n\n\n\nThis activity also informally launched my Sabbatical research leave!
\n\n\n\nThis event was organised in collaboration with comics publisher Selfmadehero.
\n\n\n\nParticipants consented to being photographed for documentation purposes. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated; it was a joyous occasion.
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur latest public data file, which we release on an annual basis, is now available for 2025. In 2025, the DataCite community registered over 36 million DOIs, and the DataCite metadata store surpassed 100 million total DOIs during the year. DataCite Members also updated over 23 million existing DOIs, working collaboratively to improve metadata quality through richer description, connections to other persistent identifiers, and relationships across outputs and activities.
\n\n\n\nThe new public data file contains metadata for 108 million DataCite DOIs in Findable state that were registered up to the end of 2025. This data file follows the same structure as our previous public data file, as described in our support documentation.
\n\n\n\nYou can get a link to download the public data file via our data files portal.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo facilitate more frequent metadata harvesting, we're launching a new monthly data file service. Each month, we'll release a new data file containing metadata for all DataCite DOIs. Users can conveniently access the latest updates to DataCite metadata, making it easier for metadata harvesters to identify DOIs that have been recently created or updated. The monthly snapshot is currently available to all DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations, who can use their existing member, consortium organization, or repository credentials to authenticate and download the file.
\n\n\n\nYou can read more about working with the monthly data file in our support documentation.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to the public data file and monthly data file, we continue to support many ways to explore and work with DataCite metadata. Our REST API supports real-time access to metadata for discovery and integration into systems and workflows. DataCite Commons offers an interface for exploring metadata connections, making it easier to understand the relationships between works, people, organizations, and repositories.
\n\n\n\nWe also work closely with a growing ecosystem of metadata harvesters and aggregators that reuse DataCite metadata to power downstream services. You can find an overview of these metadata harvesters on our website, highlighting how DataCite metadata is reused across the scholarly infrastructure.\u00a0
\n\n\n\nWe are continuing to develop harvesting-related features and want to hear from you about future enhancements you would like to see. Join the DataCite Harvesters Interest Group to stay tuned about the latest developments\u2014everyone is also welcome at our next DataCite Harvesters Interest Group Meeting on 28 January 2026.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImagine having a super-powered map that connects every important idea, tool, and discovery in mathematics \u2014 that's what zbMATH, and its incorporated platforms such as swMATH, a specific portal for mathematical research software, do. These platforms are like the ultimate librarians of math research, gathering and organizing knowledge from academic papers, software, datasets, and even citation networks. But they don't just collect information; they make it smarter.
\n\n\n\nThey use persistent identifiers (PIDs) to weave a web of connections between research outputs, software, datasets, and authors. Think of it as a digital trail of breadcrumbs that never disappears\u2014ensuring that every piece of research stays discoverable, traceable, and reusable for years to come.
\n\n\n\nWhy does this matter? Because in the fast-moving world of math, discoverability and reproducibility are everything. With PIDs, zbMATH Open helps researchers pinpoint exactly how a theorem, algorithm, or software tool evolves across different studies. No more dead ends or broken links\u2014just clearer, more transparent math.
\n\n\n\nIn short, they're not just databases; they're the connective tissue of modern mathematical research, making sure that every breakthrough is built on solid, well-documented ground.
\n\n\n\nAn opportunity to strengthen this backbone came through the FAIRCORE4EOSC (FC4E) project, a strategic initiative aimed at developing core components that advance the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). A central focus of this initiative is the PIDGraph, a key component designed to enhance research interoperability by establishing persistent, structured links between scholarly entities, including publications, datasets, software, and researchers. To demonstrate its effectiveness, FC4E incorporates case studies that explore the integration of domain-specific metadata into the PIDGraph, ensuring seamless connectivity between research objects. One such case study, led by the mathematical community through FIZ, seeks to integrate zbMATH Open services into the PIDGraph, enriching metadata with manually curated and aggregated information. This integration facilitates advanced discoverability, interlinks mathematical research software with broader scientific outputs, and extends the reach of zbMATH Open within the EOSC ecosystem, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and enhancing the overall transparency and accessibility of research knowledge. Thus, this integration not only enhances the visibility and accessibility of mathematical research software but also ensures that mathematicians who contribute to its development receive proper recognition and the credit they deserve.
Beginning in late 2023, following on from discussions at the in-person FC4E project meeting in The Hague ahead of the Beta Release Milestone of the project, the teams from DataCite and FIZ Karlsruhe had a series of meetings to lay the groundwork for the collaborative work necessary to integrate the Mathematics Case Study with the PID Graph component.
\n\n\n\nA key outcome from these meetings was the decision to focus on using the enhancements in zbMATH Open to records that were associated with existing DataCite-registered DOIs (primarily preprints registered through arXiv) to also enrich the PIDGraph data by ingesting new connections between those records and other scholarly research outputs, such as citations and references, as well as other entities represented by PIDs within the graph.
\n\n\n\nBy bringing in a new source of curated, high-quality metadata, the utility of the PIDGraph would be enhanced by the broadening of coverage, and downstream consumers of the graph data would have access to the zbMATH Open data through an existing and interoperable system, providing benefit to the wider scholarly community.
\n\n\n\nAs part of the FAIRCORE4EOSC initiative, significant collaborative efforts were undertaken to map zbMATH Open and swMATH metadata for articles and software respectively to the DataCite Metadata Schema and metadata guidelines using XSLT. This process was facilitated through close cooperation between Mike Bennett on behalf of DataCite and Shiraz Malla Mohamad and Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz representing FIZ Karlsruhe.
\n\n\n\nIt started with the production of an initial XSLT crosswalk between the zbMATH metadata and the DataCite Metadata Schema produced by the zbMATH team, and simultaneous architecture planning and code development at DataCite to prepare for inclusion of the new source of data.
\n\n\n\nOnce the first crosswalk was created, a sample set of data from zbMATH Open was transformed to the DataCite Metadata Schema. With the assistance of other colleagues from the wider DataCite team, some recommendations for fixing inconsistencies with the schema and improving the provision of data in appropriate fields were produced and implemented by the FIZ team, ultimately leading to a comprehensive transformation of the data into a form compatible with DataCite systems.
\n\n\n\nThere were some challenges along the way \u2013 for example, not every record contained enough data to populate all of the properties that are required by the DataCite Metadata Schema, and data licensing requirements meant that some data could not be openly shared. By making use of the standardised values for unknown information provided by the schema, both of these problems were overcome, allowing the XML records to meet the validation requirements for mandatory fields.
\n\n\n\nAnother issue was the strict order requirements for elements imposed by the XSD used for validating the schema, where any deviation would result in metadata validation errors despite the data being present and correct. This was corrected during the rounds of feedback and had the added bonus of providing useful input into discussions for the design of the next version of the DataCite Metadata Schema.
\n\n\n\nWhilst the work on producing the crosswalks was ongoing at FIZ, the DataCite team was busy with adding a new ingest agent to the Event Data service to handle the ingestion of the data from the zbMATH OAI server. By integrating the new source into an existing system for sharing PID connections, it was possible to take advantage of connected functionality to provide increased utility and visibility of the data – for example, the DataCite Commons frontend would automatically include any new citations and references derived from the data in the visual display of DOI records.
\n\n\n\nThis new code for ingesting from OAI also went through several rounds of development and improvement, with each pass improving the amount and quality of the data added to the system, and tackling challenges inherent in the OAI-PMH protocol and the sheer quantity of data provided by the zbMATH Open service.
\n\n\n\nShiraz and Mike worked meticulously to ensure a flawless implementation and this iterative approach, supported by regular discussions online and strengthened through in-person meetings at FC4E events, led to the successful integration of metadata, meeting the expected standards and enhancing interoperability between zbMATH Open, swMATH, and DataCite services.
\n\n\n\nOnce both the crosswalk and ingestion code were complete, the focus switched to ingesting the data into DataCite production systems and making it available as part of the PIDGraph services and the full set of transformed data was processed to extract relevant connections between PID and add them to the Event Data service, instantly surfacing them through all PIDGraph systems.
\n\n\n\nOverall, several million new connections were ingested into the graph, significantly enhancing the records covered (for example, this record gained 82 new references, none of which were previously known to the graph).
\n\n\n\nThe ingested data also became part of the latest release of the DataCite PID Links Data File and was also published to Zenodo as a dedicated dataset, providing additional avenues for consumption and reuse.
\n\n\n\nBy using the well-adopted DataCite Metadata Schema for the records, and the provision of the data via the standardised OAI-PMH protocol, we committed to promoting the usage of interoperable methods of data exchange. This also ensured that the data can be harvested and reused by other interested parties, both from the PIDGraph services and from the zbMATH Open OAI server.
\n\n\n\nAlthough the scoping of this work to connections between PIDs was defined by the requirements of the FAIRCORE4EOSC project, where the PIDGraph component had a requirement to ingest new vertices into the graph, the zbMATH Open records have further enhancements to the metadata of the records (for example subject classification using controlled vocabularies) that have the potential to provide more enrichment of the DataCite DOI records in the future.
\n\n\n\nAs DataCite works towards the goal of enriching and enhancing DOI metadata, we look forward to exploring future possibilities and partnerships to enhance the scholarly record for the benefit of the entire community, building on the work done during this collaboration.
\n\n\n\nThe work to produce the data, ingest it, and generate the PID Links data file was made possible through support from the FAIRCORE4EOSC project. FAIRCORE4EOSC has received funding from the EU's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101057264.
","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5438/bbr6-9590","guid":"https://datacite.org/?p=13097","image":"https://datacite.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/DataCite_Social_Media_Blog_post_zbMath_1.png","language":"en","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","published_at":1750723200,"rid":"cbqwy-cbn21","summary":"zbMATH: A Backbone of Mathematical Research Imagine having a super-powered map that connects every important idea, tool, and discovery in mathematics \u2014 that's what zbMATH , and its incorporated platforms such as swMATH , a specific portal for mathematical research software, do. These platforms are like the ultimate librarians of math research, gathering and organizing knowledge from academic papers, software,","tags":["FAIR","FAIRCORE4EOSC","Guest Blog Post","Metadata","Projects"],"title":"Mapping Mathematics \u2013 Integrating zbMATH Open and the PID Graph","updated_at":1790943971,"url":"https://datacite.org/blog/mapping-mathematics-integrating-zbmath-open-and-the-pid-graph/","version":"v1"},{"authors":[{"contributor_roles":[],"name":"DataCite Staff"}],"blog":{"authors":[{"name":"DataCite Staff"}],"community_id":"916f4925-a9f6-4b4d-b823-c769ef054f15","created":1733529600,"current_feed_url":null,"description":"Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge","doi":null,"favicon":"https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/916f4925-a9f6-4b4d-b823-c769ef054f15/logo","feed_format":"application/atom+xml","feed_url":"https://datacite.org/blog/feed/atom/","filter":null,"generator":"WordPress","home_page_url":"https://datacite.org/blog/","issn":null,"language":"eng","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","prefix":null,"relative_url":null,"secure":true,"slug":"datacite","status":"active","subfield":"1710","title":"DataCite Blog - DataCite","updated":1789551039,"use_api":false},"blog_name":"DataCite Blog - DataCite","blog_slug":"datacite","content_html":"In the digital era, making research easily discoverable and accessible cannot be overstated. In this context, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system has emerged as a global persistent identifiers (PIDs) standard for identifying and linking digital content. However, many institutions in Tunisia, as well as institutions in other developing countries, have been slow to adopt this system due to various challenges.
\n\n\n\nBuilding a local community is therefore essential to deal with the adoption of PIDs, including DOIs. A strong, collaborative network should facilitate the sharing of knowledge, resources, and best practices, ensuring that all stakeholders are well-informed and engaged. This community-driven approach not only promotes the widespread use of DOIs but also fosters innovation and efficiency in managing digital resources.
\n\n\n\nTo address this need, the Tunisian DOI Consortium initiative was established, led by CNUDST and supported by a GAF award from DataCite. The consortium will provide a platform for institutions to pool resources, share knowledge, and engage collectively with open infrastructures such as DataCite.
\n\n\n\nOur partnership with DataCite has been instrumental to the project’s success. DataCite offers tools and resources that simplify the assignment of DOIs to digital and physical objects. A significant advantage of this collaboration is DataCite’s commitment to promoting openness and implementing open science principles. Indeed, all metadata registered with DataCite DOIs is publicly available, which aligns with our goal of enhancing the visibility of Tunisian research.
\n\n\n\nThe primary goal of the Tunisian DOI Consortium is to create a sustainable national community that enhances the adoption and implementation of DOIs across the country and thus, should effectively utilize DataCite's open infrastructure. This infrastructure is crucial for improving the visibility of Tunisian research outputs on a global scale, thereby fostering greater international collaboration and recognition for Tunisian researchers.
\n\n\n\nThe Tunisian DOI Consortium kick-off was marked by a webinar hosted by CNUDST, which highlighted the partnership with DataCite and outlined the project's objectives and expected outcomes. The webinar also extended an invitation to local communities and stakeholders to respond to the call to join, emphasizing the collaborative effort needed to achieve the consortium's goals.
\n\n\n\nThe initiative involves key academic partners, producers, and publishers of research resources. More than 30 entities have joined this initiative, including among others:
\n\n\n\nMoreover, as part of its involvement in the DataCite Consortium Partnership Program giving support to align with DataCite's mission of promoting best practices for establishing DOI consortia globally, CNUDST organized a webinar on June 6, 2024. The primary event goal was to equip attendees with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively contribute to developing the consortium's operational frameworks. The one-hour session featured insights into the establishment and governance of DOI consortia, with experts from DataCite and representatives from international consortia in France, Canada, and the UK sharing their experiences. The objective was to familiarize potential members with best practices and sustainable consortium models.
\n\n\n\nA key event in the implementation of this initiative was the workshop titled “Tunisian DOI Consortium: Implementation and Sustainable Management,” which took place on June 26, 2024. This workshop encapsulated pivotal discussions on how to effectively implement and manage the consortium to ensure its sustainability and success in the Tunisian context.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA significant outcome of the workshop was the creation of a charter for the consortium, outlining membership rights and the roles of each member institution. The charter also details the fee structure for joining and governance procedures necessary for effective decision-making and collaboration. By establishing clear guidelines, it aims to foster a cohesive and transparent environment, ensuring all parties understand their responsibilities and benefits within the consortium. To move forward, we propose submitting this charter for approval by the decision-making heads of the participating institutions. This step is essential to formalize the consortium and lay the groundwork for its successful operation.
\n\n\n\nAcross all organized events, more than 200 participants joined us. This strong turnout reflects the growing interest and engagement in our initiatives, highlighting the commitment of individuals and institutions to advancing our collective goals.
\n\n\n\nCurrently, activities focus on assigning DOIs to collected unpublished digital research outputs and published ones across over ten online scientific journals. Some of these journals have successfully achieved automatic registration with the assistance of technical support of CNUDST's staff, by integrating their publishing platform with the DataCite infrastructure via the DataCite API. In other cases, manual registration has been completed using the Fabrica web interface. Additionally, efforts are underway to integrate with PIST.TN, the Tunisian national repository, now allows users to export MARC XML records to DataCite XML.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn September, we began to see some ambitious results, with the number of registered DOIs exceeding 400 within just two weeks. This achievement includes contributions from notable publications such as the Tunisian Journal of Clinical Biology (RTBC), the INSTM Bulletin: Marine and Freshwater Sciences, Dir\u0101s\u0101t Hisp\u0101nicas. Tunisian Journal of Hispanic Studies, and the Biomedicine & Healthcare\u202fResearch Journal (BHR). These significant milestones reflect the growing momentum and impact of our initiatives in the Tunisian research landscape.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeedback from researchers and institutions has been largely positive. However, challenges have arisen, particularly regarding awareness and adoption of DOIs. Key lessons learned include the importance of ongoing communication and training to overcome these barriers.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSince its inception, the Tunisian DOI Consortium has made significant progress in promoting the use of DOIs in Tunisia. Several institutions have joined, leading to a steady increase in registered DOIs.
\n\n\n\nLooking ahead, we plan to expand our outreach to more institutions nationwide and provide training and support to help them maximize the benefits of DOIs. In the final trimester of the project, we will continue to train researchers on DOI usage, share best practices, and engage the community to strengthen support for the initiative.
\n\n\n\nThe consortium exemplifies how collaboration and resource sharing can address challenges in adopting global standards of scholarly communication. Our experience with DataCite highlights the value of partnerships in advancing open-access initiatives, and we hope our journey will inspire other countries to pursue similar efforts.
\n\n\n\nOverall, the Tunisian DOI Consortium represents a strategic move towards integrating Tunisia into the global research community by enhancing research visibility and accessibility. It significantly advances the academic landscape by improving collaboration and resource access. We aim to help local libraries provide training on DOI usage, encourage government support through favorable policies, and engage other stakeholders to foster a robust research environment.
\n\n\n\nTo learn more, we invite you to explore the resources available on the CNUDST website and follow our upcoming activities on social media!
\n\n\n\nDataCite welcomed over 370 participants from almost 300 institutions across 59 countries to our Annual Community Meeting on 25 September 2024.
\n\n\n\nThe DataCite Community Meeting was held across 10 sessions in three blocks and spanning all time zones, with some sessions repeated to give a regional focus. As ever, a number of sessions were designed to give our global community insights into DataCite, our current status, and the path ahead:
\n\n\n\nFollowing the DataCite annual vision for 2024, the Community Meeting had a focus on metadata quality and completeness. In particular, two 'Metadata in Focus' sessions led by Sara El-Gebali (DataCite Metadata Specialist) demonstrated how the community can harness the power of PID-associated metadata. These sessions highlighted that DataCite DOI metadata is openly available, queryable via our APIs, and can be used to create visualizations for reporting. The sessions added to a better understanding of the importance of metadata completeness by illustrating real-world examples. As such, DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations were given a picture of how the quality and completeness of their own metadata can lead to improved discoverability, connectivity, and interoperability of their research outputs.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe benefits brought by having rich, high-quality metadata were also apparent in the 'Harvester Roundtable'. In this panel session, representatives from three organizations that ingest DataCite metadata\u2014OpenAIRE AMKE, Clarivate Analytics, and OurResearch (through their service OpenAlex)\u2014explained how their cutting-edge tools interact with DataCite services to expose research outputs for discovery and reuse. A clear take-home message from the session was that researchers can help others better locate their outputs within discovery systems by enhancing the completeness of the associated metadata. The session attracted well over 100 participants, who remarked in the post-session survey that they appreciated this rare opportunity to hear from metadata aggregators and enjoyed the lively Q&A session.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[The details of this session helped] \u2026\" enhance my encouragement to researchers that metadata is important, and shouldn’t be dismissed.\"
\nResponse to the post-session survey question, 'Which elements of the session did you like most?' for the first 'Metadata in Focus' session.
In our efforts to be ever more inclusive of the global community, we incorporated sessions for those in regions currently underrepresented in our member community. The Community Meeting started with a session that introduced DataCite, and shared the experiences of two institutions in the APAC region (Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal) who are using our services. Two other sessions showcased outreach and infrastructure development projects in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America that were awarded grants under the first round of the DataCite Global Access Fund.
With the 2024 Annual Community Meeting wrapped up, it just leaves us to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who joined us during the day, to all of the presenters, and to DataCite colleagues for putting the sessions together and working tirelessly to make sure they went smoothly. It is especially gratifying that from over 200 responses to post-session surveys, greater than 75% of participants said that they found the session they attended to be very or extremely useful. We will strive to do even better in 2025. If you have any suggestions for next year’s meeting, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@datacite.org
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\n\n\n\nIndividuals from DataCite member organizations (Direct Members, Supporting Members, and Consortium Leads) are eligible to stand for election. In support of equity, diversity, and balanced geographical representation, we especially encourage applications from the Middle East & North Africa and Europe, while welcoming candidates from all regions and backgrounds.
\n\n\n\nStep forward to help shape DataCite's future; nominate yourself or another eligible individual.
Applications close at the end of the day on 28 February 2026, with elections taking place at the General Assembly in April 2026.
At DataCite, we enable DOI registration for a wide variety of research outputs: from samples and images to data and preprints. In this post, we'll spotlight the resource types that our community is using DataCite DOIs for.
\n\n\n\nThe DataCite Metadata Schema has always supported a range of resource types. The \"resourceType\" property has a required attribute, \"resourceTypeGeneral\", which uses a controlled list to ensure consistent terminology across metadata records. In addition to the required \"resourceTypeGeneral\" attribute, repositories can also add further detail or specificity by including free text for the \"resourceType\" property.
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In 2011, Version 2.0 of the metadata schema included eleven options for specifying the resource type (resourceTypeGeneral). Since then, DataCite and the DataCite Metadata Working Group have updated this list in response to community feedback and the needs of DataCite Members. As Version 4.4, the schema includes 28 options for the resourceTypeGeneral attribute:
Audiovisual
Book
BookChapter
Collection
ComputationalNotebook
ConferencePaper
ConferenceProceeding
DataPaper
Dataset
Dissertation
Event
Image
InteractiveResource
Journal
JournalArticle
Model
OutputManagementPlan
PeerReview
PhysicalObject
Preprint
Report
Service
Software
Sound
Standard
Text
Workflow
Other
Our Members and Consortium Organizations have made use of all 28 of these resource types. Looking at DOIs that have been registered by our community over all time, we see that Dataset, Physical Object, Text, Image, Other, and Preprint are the top five resource types (as of October 2023):
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPut another way, resource types other than Dataset make up nearly 70% of DataCite DOIs today.
\n\n\n\nOver time, we've seen the distribution of resource types shift as new resource types are added and adopted by our community. This animation shows how resource type adoption has changed since 2004:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDataCite Members have registered over eleven million DOIs for physical objects in 2023. The majority of these DOIs are for IGSN IDs, which are globally unique and persistent identifiers for material samples. Through the partnership between IGSN e.V. and DataCite, IGSN Allocating Agents completed their re-registration of legacy IGSN IDs within DataCite services in 2023. This means that all IGSN IDs are now functionally DOIs and can be generated, modified, and retrieved using DataCite systems and APIs. DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations can get started with registering IGSN IDs by reviewing our support documentation.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDataCite Members registered over 980 thousand DOIs with the Text resource type this year. The \"Text\" resource type has always been one of the most used in the Metadata Schema. In response to our community's increasing use of DataCite DOIs for textual resources, we introduced several new resource types introduced in Schema 4.4 for text-based resources to allow for greater specificity than \"Text\", including Preprint, JournalArticle, Dissertation, and Report. We encourage DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations to use these more specific resource types where applicable, and we are pleased to see the adoption of the new resource types across a range of repositories.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we aim for DataCite DOIs to be suitable for all research outputs and resources, the resource type \"Other\" is available for cases in which the existing resource types do not describe the output/resource. When \"Other\" is selected for resourceTypeGeneral, the free text resourceType field is critical for understanding the nature of the resource.
\n\n\n\nFor this post, we looked at the 1.2 million DOIs with resourceTypeGeneral \"Other\" and analyzed the free text resourceType field. These were the top 15 results:
\n\n\n\nSome of these values do not have a close match within the resourceTypeGeneral controlled vocabulary terms, and may be candidates for inclusion in the term list. The DataCite team plans to do further analysis of resourceType and resourceTypeGeneral usage to inform future updates to the vocabulary.
\n\n\n\nFor cases where there is a close or exact match, we encourage DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations to update the metadata for previously registered DOIs to take advantage of the latest metadata schema. For example, if a DOI was registered with resourceTypeGeneral \"Other\" and resourceType \"Report\", this can be updated to resourceTypeGeneral \"Report\". By updating DOI metadata with an accurate and specific resourceTypeGeneral value, you can help us improve metadata quality for the entire DataCite community.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe're always working with our community to support new resource types. In the upcoming Metadata Schema Version 4.5, we will add two values to resourceTypeGeneral: Instrument and StudyRegistration.
Is there a resource type you would like to see added to the DataCite Metadata Schema? Please get in touch with us! You can fill out the Metadata Schema Suggestions form to share ideas with the DataCite team.
Since 2018, and as part of the global movement towards open science and knowledge as a public good, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) has been working to promote norms and practices of social science research data management (RDM) and sharing among social scientists, information specialists, and research institutions in the Arab region. More specifically, the ACSS work on RDM aims to (1) build capacity in managing research data in the Arab region, and (2) preserve* and facilitate access to social science research data on/in the Arab region by providing data management and sharing infrastructure through ACSS Dataverse.
\n\n\n\nThe ACSS is a regional, independent, non-profit organization based in Beirut that is dedicated to strengthening social science research and knowledge production in the Arab region. Among its objectives are (1) the provision of forums for exchange and communication among social scientists in the Arab region; (2) supporting effective networks among research, academics, practitioners, and other communities; and (3) supporting the dissemination of high-quality social science research in the Arab region.
\n\n\n\nThrough the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF) in 2024 and in alignment with its regional initiatives, DataCite has strengthened its commitment to building a global research ecosystem by providing open infrastructure and persistent identifier (PID) services that connect research and advance knowledge. As part of this effort, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) worked to raise awareness of research data management (RDM) and PIDs in open research infrastructure, aiming to improve research access, visibility, and collaboration for more impactful outcomes. To support this initiative, DataCite facilitated three in-person training workshops on social science RDM and three virtual demonstrations on PIDs and open infrastructure, equipping researchers and institutions with essential knowledge and tools. These efforts reflect DataCite's ongoing dedication to empowering institutions and research communities worldwide, reinforcing its role in strengthening Open Science and advancing global research practices.
\n\n\n\nThe global adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) services faces several challenges, including a lack of awareness across stakeholders, technical expertise, and institutional policies that support their implementation, particularly in regions with emerging research infrastructure. Capacity-building initiatives are essential in addressing these barriers by promoting awareness of PID services, open metadata, open research practices, and open infrastructure, enabling institutions to integrate these components into their research workflows. In the Arab region, gaps in PID adoption stem from limited training opportunities, a lack of localized resources, and varying institutional commitment to open research, which hinder the seamless connection and discoverability of research outputs. To bridge these gaps, capacity-building efforts must take multiple forms, including targeted training workshops, multilingual resources, collaborative webinars, and regional partnerships that equip institutions with the knowledge and tools to implement PIDs effectively. Strengthening these efforts will not only accelerate PID adoption across the region but also contribute to a more interconnected and visible research ecosystem, aligning with global Open Science initiatives and ensuring equitable access to research infrastructure.
\n\n\n\nAs part of the ACSS series of training workshops on social science RDM, three such workshops were organized in 2024 in partnership with DataCite, as well as universities and research centers in the Arab region. Through a combination of teaching and practical exercises, the three training workshops introduced participants to the RDM and data sharing principles, best practices, and tools, highlighting the importance of PIDs for an open research infrastructure. The training materials used in the workshops are bilingual (Arabic and English).
\n\n\n\nIn total, the three training workshops included 56 researchers and information specialists from 16 universities and research centers. The first was held on 3 October 2024 in Ifrane, Morocco, organized with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Mohammed VI Library at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI). It was attended by 19 participants from 4 universities in the Atlas region in Morocco:
\n\n\n\nThe second workshop took place on 5 October 2024 in Rabat, Morocco, organized with the Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI) in Morocco. It was attended by 16 participants from 5 universities and research centers in the Rabat region:
\n\n\n\nThe third and final workshop on 2 December 2024 in Cairo, Egypt was organized with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). It was attended by 21 participants from 7 universities and research centers in the Cairo region. (A presentation by the authors given during the workshop is here).
\n\n\n\nIn addition to the workshops, three virtual demonstration sessions were organized with DataCite for the ACSS community that highlighted the importance of open research infrastructure and the value of adopting various PIDs in research workflows to enable the sharing of research outputs with the broader research community, and enhance their discoverability and reusability. The demonstrations showcased examples of integrating ORCID iDs and DOIs for all research outputs\u2014including theses, dissertations, and datasets\u2014and discussed the added value of the Research Organization Registry for institutions.
The first demonstration was held on 29 May as part of a mandatory RDM training for cohort 4 of ACSS NewGen fellows. The NewGen program, in collaboration with a number of public and private Arab universities, seeks to establish a pipeline for a new generation of committed and well-trained social scientists in the Arab region. It provides distinguished students at the undergraduate and graduate levels with the opportunity to join a two-year multi-component journey including methodological and thematic workshops and courses, as well as research, publishing, and networking activities.
\n\n\n\nThe second demonstration was held on 10 July and was part of the ACSS webinar series that aims to reach a wide audience of social scientists and humanists, as well as activists, practitioners, and professionals in different countries of the region. These webinars help enhance interactions between the ACSS and researchers, and foster/consolidate opportunities for networking with regional and international organizations to enhance knowledge production in the social sciences. The webinar was attended by about 60 people and included a lively Q&A session (a recording of the webinar is here).
\n\n\n\nThe third demonstration was held on 24 September and was part of the second ACSS Academy that provides an opportunity for selected junior social science researchers in the Arab region to engage with critical theory and analysis, advanced writing and professionalization skills, and networking.
The three demonstrations were attended by around 150 individuals: 100 participants from the ACSS community during the 10 July webinar, 20 ACSS NewGen fellows, and 28 junior social science researchers who attended the ACSS Academy.
\n\n\n\nThe activities undertaken through the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF) award advanced capacity building, with DataCite supporting three in-person training workshops across Egypt and Morocco, alongside three virtual sessions focused on research data management (RDM), persistent identifiers (PIDs), and open metadata. These efforts provided trainees with the knowledge and tools needed to strengthen open research practices and enhance the adoption of PIDs in the region. The capacity-building workshops helped create and support communities of researchers and practitioners to work on RDM within their institutions and professional communities. Indeed, some of the trainees plan to present the materials to their colleagues and students. Additionally, some trainees who have been working in Open Science and RDM, expressed interest in becoming trainers themselves. This project has provided the opportunity for future collaboration with the network of organizations and individuals in the Arab region working on RDM, PIDs, and Open Science; collaborations that could create synergies in these areas.
\n\n\n\nGoing forward, ACSS will continue its collaboration with DataCite to advance capacity building, advocate for open infrastructure, and establish a sustainable path for the ACSS Dataverse. As part of these efforts, DataCite will present on advancing knowledge through PIDs and metadata in the region at the 7th Conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences in May 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon.
* Those interested in preserving their social science datasets in the ACSS Dataverse, please contact datatverse@theacss.org
The global DataCite community is supported by a fully remote team of 21 members, located in 12 countries and speaking more than 20 languages. Once a year, the team meets somewhere in the world to interact in person, remind one another that we are humans rather than 2-D images on screens, and brainstorm topics of current and strategic importance.
\n\n\n\nThe DataCite Team recently descended on Athens for our 2025 retreat, hoping that the goddess Athena would impart us with her wisdom.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the great philosophers of Greece, we spent many of the sessions asking ourselves some fundamental and existential questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What do we do? How do we differ from others? We explored these questions from the viewpoint of different stakeholders in the DataCite community, thinking about what they are trying to achieve, their day-to-day tasks and challenges in realizing these achievements, and how DataCite can continue to address these needs.
\n\n\n\nA key theme throughout our discussions is that our community and the services we offer go hand-in-hand. DataCite was founded and continues to operate today as a community of research organizations, and the services and activities that we support are driven by that ethos and mission.
\n\n\n\nA related theme within our discussions was that of trust and trustworthiness and about DataCite's role as a trusted provider and partner for the research community. It reminded one of the authors of a famous quote from the Greek philosopher Sophocles that
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.\"
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This is typically taken to mean that not only must trust be earned, but that this is not a one-time effort; it can take a long time to build, and then must be continually re-earned.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs an organization, trust is enshrined in our values. Being trusted by the community is not something the DataCite team takes lightly. We do not \"rest on our laurels\", we instead look to the goddess Nike and strive to continue being victorious in maintaining this trust.
\n\n\n\nWatch this space for the fruits of our labor at the retreat. In the meantime, if you have any questions about DataCite, please contact info@datacite.org.
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