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It is part and parcel of Thoth Open Metadata’s mission to make book dissemination more easily accessible to small- to medium-sized publishers of open access books. Broad dissemination to a variety of…

Alle Verzeichnungseinheiten in unserem Archivkatalog und alle unsere Personendeskriptoren haben jetzt einen ARK (Archival Resource Key).

The latest FAIR-IMPACT podcast episode is out! This time with Gabriela Mejias and Wim Hugo to discuss PID - Persistent Identifiers - and how their relevance in the open science framework can be furthe...

On October 16, 2024, the Rogue Scholar Advisory Board met for the second time since it started in January 2024. Since January Rogue Scholar has achieved several major milestones. In May, DOI registra...

The Graduate Program in Publishing, College of Professional Studies, at The George Washington University, is designed for both current and aspiring publishing professionals. Students include career ch...

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Great thought-provoking post https://lnkd.in/eb4aWWh6 from Ludo Waltman and André Brasil on the challenges of assigning DOIs, and metadata more generally, for innovative types of publishing. This really reflects my own challenges working with metadata of this type at Research Consulting Limited. In a previous role overseeing the DataCite account for an institution, I came across similar challenges in deciding when to assign DOIs. Institutional repositories regularly hold versions of content which have been assigned DOIs elsewhere. I ended up concluding we should become okay with giving multiple DOIs to different versions of content (even if different meant "hosted elsewhere"). In avoiding assigning a DOI because one already exists, we compromise the discoverability of valuable content and create a two-tier system of content. Plus there is already good metadata available within the DOI system to indicate where items are versions of each other. However, to capitalise on this data use of versioning metadata needs to be consistent and reliable. Bibliometric systems need to be able to automatically identify alternate versions and allow records to be collapsed together for analysis. I'm not certain whether the challenge in doing this lies more in the productionn of the original DOI metadata or how it is used in bibliometric systems, but I would be really interested to hear from those with insights. Final thought: I'm personally a fan of when one organisation mints DOIs for multiple versions (i.e. all records have the same DOI prefix) and indicates version information within the DOI itself. If it was possible to make the existence of an alternative version transparent in DOIs regardless of which organisation minted it, that would would be my dream! But infinitely easier said than done, I realise. #scholarlycommunication #persistentidentifiers #PIDs

For our global research system to function, we need connections between the building blocks of research. These connections can be realised by metadata, that captures how people, organisations and things interact. There is a challenge in making, preserving and sharing the connections, and re-using the associated metadata. This video animation tells the positive story of how it can be done. It illustrates how this could look across the lifespan of one research grant. It shows that all the components are there. It is about making them work together properly and everyone has a part to play.

You're invited to join the Australian ORCID Consortium Community of Practice, Tuesday 22 July 2025 11.00am AEST. During this session we will discuss the latest news from ORCID, share valuable insights...

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This report is part of the deliverables produced by PID4NFDI, a core service for persistent identifiers developed within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfr...