The National Center for Persistent Identifiers at the National Library of Technology cordially invites representatives of member institutions to this year’s third annual meeting of the ORCID National Center, which will take place on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. This meeting is a unique opportunity to share current knowledge, experiences, and inspiring ideas in the field …
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In April 2024, the ROR (Research Organization Registry) released version 2 of the ROR API and schema. What is the timeline of transition to version 2? Week of July 28, 2025 This may be a breaking change for applications that use the ROR API with the expectation of a version 1 response, so ROR highly …
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) is the Portuguese national agency for the funding of science and research. It supports research projects, scientific institutions and infrastructure, as well as education and knowledge transfer. FCT has developed an integrated information ecosystem called PTCRIS, designed to strengthen national scientific activities. The system supports interlinking data …
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How researcher identifiers work together to help researchers, build a better picture of research, and streamline administrative tasks? ORCID’s original purpose was to address the name ambiguity problem in scholarly research. In a world where researchers are rewarded based on their work, which is typically linked to them by their name, misattributions are common. ORCID …
We are looking for new colleagues for the National Centre for Persistent Identifiers. For more information have a look at the jobs.cz website. We are looking for new colleagues for the Centre for repositories and metadata management. For more information have a look at the jobs.cz website.
We have launched a new Statistics section, where you can find up-to-date information on the number of member institutions of the ORCID National Center, the status of active integrations, and the involvement of researchers with ORCID iDs. We are continuously adding interesting figures to the statistics, which map the development of ORCID use in the …
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ORCID has opened its annual call for nominations to the ORCID Board of Directors. All ORCID member organizations are eligible to nominate a representative to stand for election as a Member Director on the Board. This year, ORCID is seeking up to four candidates for this position. The nominee must be an employee or an …
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. …
