Version en español | Versão em português Metadata sprint in São Paulo (4–6 March 2026) We are excited to announce the upcoming Metadata Sprint in São Paulo, Brazil, which will take place 4–6 March 2026. This is the second Metadata Sprint organized by Crossref and our first to be held in Latin America with the participation of SciELO. In recognition of the region’s diversity, the event will be held in three languages – Portuguese, Spanish, and English, to support the opportunity for active participation for all.
Greetings to the DataCite community! I’m Maria Gould, and I’ve just joined DataCite as Director of Product. I’m excited to have this opportunity to introduce myself and share a bit about where I’m from and how I got here. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA, where the city is bisected by the Willamette River. Twelve different bridges span the river to connect the city’s east and west sides, enabling vehicles, trains, pedestrians, and bicyclists (and one bagpiping unicyclist!) to travel back and forth. As boats and cargo ships travel up and down the river, some bridges are high enough for them to pass under, and the rest are designed to lift up temporarily to let them through. Each bridge has a unique design and its own character, but they all serve a common purpose of connecting the city and letting those within it get from one place to another.
As we transition from one calendar year to the next we tend to look in 2 directions. 1st we look backwards at events that defined the year that was. We then look to the future & try to predict events that will define the year to come.
Here I provide a roundup of articles, blog posts & initiatives I found interesting & useful from last quarter of 2023.
Predictions... stay tuned.
#Retractions #TrustIntegrity #PeerReview #AI #ScholarlyInfrastructure #OpenScience #OA
Here's a paper to announce, authored with my colleagues, Barbara Lancho-Barrantes and Diane Pennington Rasumussen!
'Measuring the concept of #PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open #scholarly #infrastructure
The paper is available openly here: https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2022-0142 or https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/84311/
#PersistentIdentifiers #PIDgraph #repositories #OpenInfrastructure #scholarlyinfrastructure #metadata #repositories #retrieval @openstrath
The increasing centrality of persistent identifiers (PIDs) to scholarly ecosystems and the contribution they can make to the burgeoning “PID graph” has the potential to transform scholarship. Despite their importance as originators of PID data, little is known about researchers’ awareness and understanding of PIDs, or their efficacy in using them. In this article, we report on the results of an online interactive test designed to elicit exploratory data about researcher awareness and understanding of PIDs. This instrument was designed to explore recognition of PIDs (e.g. Digital Object Identifiers [DOIs], Open Researcher and Contributor IDs [ORCIDs], etc.) and the extent to which researchers correctly apply PIDs within digital scholarly ecosystems, as well as measure researchers’ perceptions of PIDs. Our results reveal irregular patterns of PID understanding and certainty across all participants, though statistically significant disciplinary and academic job role differences were observed in some instances. Uncertainty and confusion were found to exist in relation to dominant schemes such as ORCID and DOIs, even when contextualized within real-world examples. We also show researchers’ perceptions of PIDs to be generally positive but that disciplinary differences can be noted, as well as higher levels of aversion to PIDs in specific use cases and negative perceptions where PIDs are measured on an “activity” semantic dimension. This work therefore contributes to our understanding of scholars’ “PID literacy” and should inform those designing PID-centric scholarly infrastructures that a significant need for training and outreach to active researchers remains necessary.
Some thoughts on the challenges around scholarly infrastructure and solutions from a Latin American perspective, written by Gabi Mejias and Carolina Tanigushi for the Upstream Blog:
https://upstream.force11.org/scholarly-infra-latam/
Infrastructure: what’s at stake Infrastructure often is perceived as a “given”, as something that was always there, as “natural”. In the digital age, infrastructure seems more “natural” than ever (it's hard to imagine there was a time without internet connectivity in our mobile phones or even a time when
Insightful piece on taking the long view on scholarly infrastructure.
"...we’re still hearing calls to develop basic research management infrastructure. Why hasn’t it already been developed? Part of the problem is that very little work has been done to quantify the value of research infrastructure"
Why is it so difficult to understand the benefits of #research #infrastructure? https://www.digital-science.com/blog/2022/11/benefits-of-research-infrastructure/
HT @adam__moore #OpenResearch #PIDs #scholarlyinfrastructure
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