Data-Driven Development
This week I start as the new DataCite Technical Director. While I get up to speed with existing DataCite services...
Martin Fenner
Thank you PLOS
Starting next week I will work as the DataCite Technical Director, and I am excited about this new opportunity. But...
Component DOIs Revisited
Four years ago I wrote a blog post about component DOIs. It is time to revisit the topic, in particular since our approach to citing data associated with a publication has changed since 2011. Component DOIs...
Why should we work where we live?
At the SciFoo Camp this weekend Erin McKiernan and I moderated an unconference session on the topic Why should we...
Persistent Identifiers and URLs
Just like the rest of the internet, much of our scholarly infrastructure is built around the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), increasingly HTTPS for security, and soon HTTP/2 for better performance. In this infrastructure Universal Resource...
Human-readable and machine-readable Persistent Identifiers
Yesterday Julie McMurry and co-authors published a preprint 10 Simple rules for design, provision, and reuse of persistent identifiers for life science data. This is an important paper trying to address a fundamental problem: how can...