Africa PID Alliance | Persistent Identifiers – Helix Analytics Africa | est. 2023

“Africa PID Alliance is a project by Helix Analytics Africa and Training Centre in Communication (TCC-AFRICA), which, encompasses a community of PID enthusiasts in and from Africa aiming to lead and realize a FAIR sharing of access to data using Persistent Identifiers in innovation, research, and technology within the cultural, scientific and cross-industry ecosystems. We provide the following solutions to achieve robust PIDs Digital Object Identifiers (DOI); Personal Data Protection (Control & Compliance); Data Auditing & Reporting…”

Africa PID Alliance Digital Object Identifiers Registration Concept Note | May 11, 2023

Abstract: “Persistent Identifiers are the pillars of an interoperable, persistent and reliable Open Research Infrastructure. This is the reason why a lot of countries/regions and organizations took the initiative to contribute to this network and help promote the use of PIDs through their academic and publishing ecosystems.    The objective of this document is to structure the feasibility, implementation and manageability of the project. A survey on the African continental level will shed light on or provide insights on the need of a DOI Registration Agency tailored to the continental context. One of the innovations that this agency will bring is a specific prefix for Africa that will provide; Ownership to African researcher over their content…”

Nabil Ksibi, Joy Owango, & Sara. (2023). Africa PID Alliance Digital Object Identifiers Registration Concept Note (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7924069

DOIs for Research Software: Increasing Visibility, Connectivity, Citability

“Research software are vital outputs of the research endeavour. They are often integral to the generation of research data, and rely heavily on the same technical and social infrastructure to disseminate, cultivate, and coordinate activities. While research software adhering to the same openness and FAIRness ideals as other digital objects should be per se intellegitur, it is only recently that efforts have been started to ensure they are afforded the same long-term preservation and stewardship as other research outputs. However, research software engineers are yet to view making their software FAIR and Open as normative and in their interests. The value of adding PIDs to research software to expose both citation metrics and their interconnections with other research entities is expected to increase researcher buy-in and drive change.

DataCite invites you to join us for a webinar in which you will learn about: – The importance of research software, and the difficulties faced in ensuring they are a first-class citizen of the research endeavour. – How DataCite supports research software, our recommended practices, and projects we are involved in with research software at the forefront. – A Zenodo–GitHub integration highlighting a practical use case of DataCite services for research software. – HERMES, a research software publication system currently in use that was developed by a German group including DataCite Members….”

R= Making it easy to generate CrossRef XML with confidence

“In this module we present the proposal and budget for an open source library to generate CrossRef DOI XML. We imagine a world where people don’t think twice about creating DOIs, and integrate changes with confidence. The proposed libraries could be extended to improve confidence in generating XML for DataCite in web applications as well. This project is unfunded at the time of publication and we are looking for support to realise this mission….”

R= Making it easy to generate CrossRef XML with confidence

“In this module we present the proposal and budget for an open source library to generate CrossRef DOI XML. We imagine a world where people don’t think twice about creating DOIs, and integrate changes with confidence. The proposed libraries could be extended to improve confidence in generating XML for DataCite in web applications as well. This project is unfunded at the time of publication and we are looking for support to realise this mission….”

2023-02-01 Community Call – IRUS, ORCID, and DOIs – Google Docs

“Guest Speaker: Hannah Rosen, Strategist for Content & Scholarly Communication Initiatives at Lyrasis:

What is IRUS? General overview

How does IRUS work with ORCID?

How does IRUS work with DOIs?

Is there anything else we need to know about IRUS?

Compatibility

Installation

How to participate…”

Discover DOCI, the index of open citations from DataCite – OpenCitations blog

“We’re excited to introduce DOCI, the OpenCitations Index of Datacite open DOI-to-DOI citations, a new tool containing citations derived from publications bearing DataCite DOIs to other DOI-identified publications, harvested from DataCite. The citations available in DOCI are treated as first-class data entities, with accompanying properties including the citations timespan, modelled according to the OpenCitations Data Model. 

Currently, DOCI’s December 2022 release contains 169,822,752 citations from 1,753,860  bibliographic resources, and is based on the last dump of DataCite dated 22 October 2021 provided by the Internet Archive. …”