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 …
ORCID has announced the candidates for Board of Directors for the year of 2026. Voting will be open from November 3rd to November 20th via the website (details will be published before voting begins) or at the annual online meeting of ORCID members, which will take place on November 20th, 2025. Representatives of member organizations …
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.
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 …
The 2025 Annual Meeting of National ORCID Centre Read More »
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 »
A new article has been published on the ORCID website: “Scholarly Publishers and ORCID: Partnering to Advance Trust in Research”. Highlights: Next steps publishers can take: Whether you’ve newly adopted ORCID, or are looking to improve your integration, there are several things you can do to increase the value of ORCID in your organization.
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:
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 …
ROR – Timeline for the Sunset of Version 1 of the ROR API and Schema Read More »
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 …
Register once, use repeatedly: Portugal’s FCT shows how to use ORCID effectively Read More »
