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DataCite and Make Data Count (MDC) are pleased to announce the webinar titled "EXPLORE: the need for an open classification system" which will be held on April 7th, 2022, 3-4pm. The Make Data Count (MDC) is a scholarly change initiative, made up of researchers and open infrastructure experts, building and advocating for evidence-based open data metrics. The second webinar of "DataCite Make Data …

In the course of the adaptation of the membership and fee model by DataCite , GESIS founded the DARA Consortium at the end of 2020. The DARA Consortium organisations comprises currently 58 social and economic science data-holding institutions from Germany and abroad. GESIS is the leading Consortium Organisation and runs together with the ZBW the DOI Registration service da|ra. The Consortium uses …

DataCite was founded in 2009 as an open stakeholder governed community that is open to participation from organizations around the world. DataCite has aimed to safeguard common standards worldwide to support research, thereby complying with the rules of good scientific practice. DataCite's identifier registration (Data File), and services are foundational components of the scholarly ecosystem. As …

In the course of the adaptation of the membership and fee model by DataCite, GESIS founded the DARA Consortium at the end of 2020. The consortium now comprises 51 social and economic science data-holding institutions from Germany and abroad. GESIS is the leading Consortium Organisation and runs together with the ZBW the DOI Registration service da|ra. The Consortium uses 86 Prefixes and has …

On 25 November 2020 the DARA Consortium was founded. The Leibniz institutions GESIS and ZBW have been early members of DataCite, and the joint DOI registration service da|ra has been in operation since 2010. Even though the change of the membership model of DataCite GESIS and ZBW have decided to continue the service and set up the DARA Consortium, which was built from the former da|ra users. …