In October 2025, a quiet, yet momentous event occurred in DataCite infrastructure: the registration of our 100 millionth DOI. Since its founding nearly 16 years ago, DataCite now has more than 1,667 member organizations from over 60 countries and shows steady growth in the number of DOI registrations. In 2025 alone, over 28 million new …
DOI registration agency DataCite announced these changes to its APIs: DataCite API Rate Limits Q3 2025 read more DataCite Metadata Normalization Changes Q1 2026 read more DataCite REST API: Facets (“meta”) Default Change March 1, 2026 read more DataCite REST API Legacy Endpoints Deprecation July 1, 2026 read more
Meeting agenda: Wednesday November 12th Thursday November 13th The meeting will be held in english language. You can register for the online meeting on the DataCite website.
In their recently published text, Ted Habermann and Erin Robinson from the organization Metadata Game Changers focused on analyzing examples of good practice regarding the quality of records in repositories that assign DOIs through the registration agency DataCite. The results of the repository operated by the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of …
Archaeological Map of the Czech Republic as a metadata quality “Bright Spot” Read More »
On Wednesday, October 1, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) team and DataCite held a webinar: Configuring and Optimizing DOIs with DataCite in Open Journal Systems. The presentation and recording of the webinar: Video recording of the webinar on YouTube in English:
Based on the community feedback, the DOI registration agency DataCite is preparing to expand its metadata schema, specifically the resourceTypeGeneral parameter, to include two new object types for Presentations and Posters (see below). You can provide feedback on these new data types directly on the GitHub threads or via support@datacite.org. Proposed new resource type: Presentation …
New DataCite object types: Presentation and Poster (Open for feedback until June 20) Read More »
DataCite Annual Report 2024 The DOI registration agency DataCite has published its Annual Report for 2024, which looks back, among other things, on the celebrations of the 15th anniversary of its existence. DataCite reached 72 million registered DOIs (with 20 million in 2024 alone). These were resolved 671,232,354 times, or over 21 times every second. …
Webinar held in cooperation with EOSC CZ Training Centre presented the results of a cost-benefit analysis of implementing persistent identifiers in the Czech Republic. The analysis was prepared by MoreBrains Cooperative for the National Technical Library. More about the analysis The webinar took place on April 15 in English.
DataCite, the registration agency for the DOI identifier, has announced a new version of its metadata schema number 4.6. A summary of the main new features: New “Project” value for the resourceTypeGeneral field.This update allows organizations registering DOIs for research activities or projects, including the RAiD consortium, to use a dedicated value that is more …
DataCite DOI registration agency has celebrate its 15th anniversary with an open hours webinar featuring members and staff who have shared insights into the history of DataCite and the DataCite metadata schema. You can find the recording and presentaitons on the DataCite website.
