Join us for a webinar to learn how organizations around the are using @datacite #OpenInfrastructure to improve visibility and recognition for #Research. Featuring Bessem Aamira CNUDST, Imam Wahyudi Farid ITS & Owen Iyoha Eko-Konnect
April 24, 2025
Register on https://datacite.zoom.us/webinar/register/1517453110980/WN_xR-Aa6c8TLyKRPlMUgHewQ

Crossref sponsors are local partners helping reduce barriers to participation. In 2024 alone, we welcomed new sponsors from Bangladesh (our first GEM sponsor), China, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Türkiye. These organizations help provide local language support, manage fees in local currency, and offer tailored technical help—making membership more practical and affordable. Details here: https://doi.org/10.64000/4h22q-pc287 #Metadata #equity

25 years of Crossref! We now connect 170M+ #metadata records across 22,000+ members worldwide, fueling research collaboration every day. #CrossrefAt25

Immer wieder kommt die Frage, ob Signal wegen seines Sitzes in den USA noch vertrauenswürdig ist. Ich finde: ja. Denn selbst wenn Behörden anklopfen – Signal kann keine Inhalte oder Metadaten herausgeben, weil es sie schlicht nicht hat. Wer das anders sieht oder ein anderes Bedrohungsmodell hat, soll eben einen anderen Messenger wählen.

Trying to find all DOIs for a journal, book, or conference? It's a common question with more than one answer. We've shared two practical approaches — and why things aren't always as complete as they seem. Read more: https://bit.ly/3EoyaKY
#crossref #metadata #restapi #ticketofthemonth

I like this idea for a #LettersToTheEditor #preprint server.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-025-10022-y

"Such a preprint server would offer three major benefits…: format-free ease of swift communication, increased author visibility and accountability, and avoiding the homelessness of unpublished [letters]."

PS: I've sent letters to journals that had policies not to publish them, but without saying so anywhere. Once I sent a letter to a new journal that had never received or published one and needed time to think about it. Right now #SocialMedia takes up this slack and does a pretty good job. But posting letters as preprints would give authors more space, prevent even published letters from languishing behind #paywalls, and offer better opportunities for #PIDs, #metadata, and #discoverability.

The first
@crossref #metadata sprint concluded successfully! We spent two days in the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid working on different questions, problems, challenges, and gaps in the scholarly record.

Working next to a beautiful paleontological collection made me think about Dobzhanky's words about evolution; without it, biology would be a collection of isolated observations. Why do species share traits? Why do some structures persist while others disappear? Evolution ties it all together...

Similarly, without metadata, the scholarly record would be an overwhelming sea of disconnected texts, data, and ideas... who wrote this? When was it published? How does it relate to other works? Metadata provides the context and connections that realize the #ResearchNexus.

DOAJ and EZB: Working together for more visibility of information on publishing.

A new collaboration will see DOAJ and EZB contribute to greater transparency in scholarly publishing, empowering authors with the information they need to make informed publishing decisions

#DOAJ #metadata #APCs #transparency #ScholComm #OpenAccess

All details at https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/10/doaj-and-ezb-working-together-for-more-visibility-of-information-on-publishing/

New release of AncientMetagenomeDir! (v25.03.0, Historic Centre of Cordoba)
https://github.com/SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir/releases/tag/v25.03.0
It is a community resource of #metadata of >2K shotgun-sequenced #AncientMetagenome or ancient microbial genome enriched samples & >5K libraries. Stats below:

Release v25.03.0:
206 (+8) publications
1672 (+132) ancient host-associated metagenome samples
768 (+33) ancient microbial genomes
713 (+0) ancient environmental samples

Get out of my head
Guidelines for what metadata you can remove from the HEAD section of your web pages without losing its functionality.

Today I learned about `plistlib` on Python 3, and used it to easily get the dimensions of a file using its metadata:

Gist: https://gist.github.com/juandesant/1984572bd48aeaf8254b9aff36972897
Plistlib: https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html

#Russia #Ukraine #academia #HigherEducation #ISSN #metadata

"[Frances] Pinter has reached Publishing Perspectives with the news that 'publications in territories presently occupied by Russia' are 'unjustifiably using the ISSNs of Ukrainian journals originally founded by displaced Ukrainian higher education institutions, or obtaining entirely new ISSNs while falsely claiming to be the legal successors of these publication.'"

https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/04/a-win-in-ukraines-academic-metadata-war/

On my way to #Madrid for the @crossref #metadata sprint ! Let's play with #data !

Impulsando la Ciencia Abierta: El Fondo de Acceso Global de DataCite apoya a la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas en desarrollar un Manual de Ciencia Abierta para América Latina. Descubra cómo talleres y colaboraciones generan buenas prácticas en #PID #metadata & #openscience: https://doi.org/10.5438/5mty-y804

Join us for a DataCite webinar to learn how organizations around the are using #OpenInfrastructure to improve visibility and recognition for #Research. Featuring Bessem Aamira CNUDST, Imam Wahyudi Farid ITS and Owen Iyoha Eko-Konnect

April 24, 2025 8:00 UTC
Register on lnkd.in/dkMXbpXK

We've posted an advisory for our user community on the recent LCSH changes, how they impact our discovery system, and what we are doing to mitigate the problem #Carleton #libraries #lcsh #metadata

https://library.carleton.ca/library-news/advisory-potential-changes-subject-headings-omni-records

Join our workshop on Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for Academic Events! We'll explore how #PIDs can benefit researchers, conference organizers, publishers, librarians, and funding organizations.

Date: May 7th, 2025, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Location: Hannover at @tibhannover + Online (lectures only)

Program & Registration: https://events.hifis.net/event/2232/

Note: Presentations will be held in both English and German. Details can be found in the agenda.

Can you trust AI with your archives? On April 2 at 5pm EDT, UMaine's Digital Curation program hosts a webinar with Sara and Ben Brumfield on blending human crowdsourcing with AI's scale and speed. Join us for a discussion of practical uses and thorny ethics!

https://blog.still-water.net/should-you-let-ai-manage-your-collection

Signal vs WhatsApp: Signal is still the most private by a long way

Users adding an incorrect user by mistake to a group is no reflection at all on the security of any app. This happens across all apps, as the user is the issue, not the app.

I had long ago deleted the WhatsApp app off my phone, mainly because of ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/signal-vs-whatsapp-signal-is-still-the-most-private-by-a-long-way/

Darf ich vorstellen: https://codeberg.org/weirdfox/mfs

Ein Tool, mit dem man Metadaten herunterladen kann. Gerade nur Publikationen über DOI von Crossref / DataCite / OpenAlex, wird aber in alle möglichen Richtungen erweitert. Nutze es um Rust zu lernen, ist aber ernst gemeint :)

Momentan eine sehr Alpha-Version verfügbar, von jeglicher produktiven Nutzung ist stark abzuraten.

Ich freue mich über Tipps, Ideen, Kritik!

Über neue Releases wird hier ebenfalls berichtet.