01/26/2022

More Than Just Data Citation

An interview with DataCite

Today's interview is with an organization that is very close to my heart! I first started to engage with DataCitewhile I was at ORCID, including working with them and other persistent identifier (PID) organizations on PIDapalooza, one of the most fun and productive industry events ever (in my totally unbiased opinion!). I've stayed involved with DataCite since leaving ORCID, including as a member of the DataCite Community Engagement Steering Group, one of the groups that has helped shape their next three-year strategic plan. It's with that hat on that I invited Matt Buys, their executive director; Helena Cousijn, their community engagement director; and Paul Vierkant, their outreach manager, to tell The Scholarly Kitchen readers a bit about DataCite's evolution, values and goals.

Let's start with an introduction to DataCite — who are you, what do you do and why?

DataCite is a global not-for-profit membership organization that provides open infrastructure to identify, find, cite, connect and use research. DataCite was founded in 2009 to make research data citable in the literature using digital object identifiers (DOIs), thereby providing an incentive for researchers to share their data. Since then, a lot of work has gone into making the magic of data citation happen. Initiatives such as the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles and FAIR data principles, and collaborations in the context of Make Data Count, the Research Data Alliance, FORCE11, and the Enabling FAIR data project have played a big role in the implementation of data sharing and data citation.

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