DSpace-CRIS Becomes an ORCID Certified Service Provider 

DSpace-CRIS has been recognized as an ORCID Certified Service Provider in the Research Information System category. It is the first free open-source extension of DSpace designed for Research Data and Information Management. DSpace-CRIS places the institutional repository at its core, ensuring high visibility of all collected information and objects on the web.  ORCID member institutions …

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SAVE THE DATE: ROR Annual Community Meeting 2026  

The ROR Community is organizing its Annual Community Meeting, which will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 3 and Wednesday, February 4, 2026.  In four one-hour sessions over two days, participants will receive an update on what ROR accomplished in 2025 and an overview of planned activities for 2026, feature presentations from ROR integrators and …

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PIDfest 2026 — SAVE THE DATE

Invitation to the second edition of the PIDfest international conference dedicated to persistent identifiers. PIDfest is a three-day international summit of talks, activities and workshops focussing on how persistent identifiers can deliver world-class research infrastructure. The event brings together PID advocates, users, and leaders from around the world to solve real world infrastructure challenges that …

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ORCID’s New Featured Works Section

ORCID has introduced a new Featured Works section that allows researchers to select up to five of their most important works and showcase them at the top of their record. This feature enables researchers to easily draw attention to their most significant publications or outputs. The new section transforms the ORCID record from a digital …

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DataCite: 100 million registered DOIs

In October 2025, a milestone was reached in DataCite infrastructure: the registration of 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 growth in the number of DOI registrations. In 2025 alone, over 28 million new DOIs have been registered …

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Upcoming changes to DataCite APIs

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

DataCite Annual Community Meeting 2025

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.

The 2025 Annual Meeting of National ORCID Centre

The National Center for Persistent Identifiers at the National Library of Technology invited representatives of member institutions to this year’s third annual meeting of the ORCID National Center, which took place on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. This meeting was an unique opportunity to share current knowledge, experiences, and inspiring ideas in the field of ORCID …

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Archaeological Map of the Czech Republic as a metadata quality “Bright Spot”

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 …

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