John Chodacki

New resource by the ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group: the Institutional Data Evaluation and Assessment (IDEA) Maturity Model, a tool to assist institutions assess their practices & capacity to evaluate data contributions.

View the maturity model:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

COMET Community Call - October 30 - Register Now! @cometadata.bsky.social

🦙 The @csvconf.bsky.social is getting bigger and better every year. This time there was lots of interest, conversations and exchanges in a magnificent venue in Bologna, Italy. 🧵

#CSVCONF #CommaLlama

At #csvconf with keynote @rahulbot.bsky.social discussing the power of data murals - communities physically engaging with data that affects them. Wow! Amazing concept and execution!

Great to be in Bologna for @csvconf.bsky.social 2025! Great community event of data projects that make real impact on science and society. #csvconf #commallama

csv,conf is officially starting tomorrow, but we already warmed up with some very cool pre-conference events these days.

The venue is amazing. Join us tomorrow!
#commallama #csvconf #opendata

We’re excited to share @tracykteal.bsky.social will be the new CEO of openRxiv. 🎉

A scientist & nonprofit leader, she has served as Interim COO since launch. Her appointment signals continuity in leadership & our commitment to independence, transparency & open science.
openrxiv.org/announcing-c...

Stand Up for UC We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.

UCLA is a global leader in research, innovation, education, and healthcare. The federal government’s $1B demand would devastate the nation’s top public research university, cut off life-saving care, and halt tech and economic growth. #StandUpForUC bit.ly/standuc

Reducing Administrative Burden with Persistent Digital Identifiers Assigning persistent digital identifiers (Digital Object Identifiers, or DOIs) and using ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor IDs) for key personnel to track outputs for research grants will improv...

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Geoffrey Bilder (@gbilder.com‬) will be speaking at #csvconf about "Sovereign-First Scholarly Infrastructure for an Uncertain World"! Register now: http://csvconfv9.eventbrite.com

The COMET Model — COMET

Explore the COMET Model. Read our article ‘The COMET Model: Transitioning to Community-Curated PID Metadata Enrichment’ - a deep dive into the background, principles, and elements of the model in demonstration.
www.cometadata.org/the-comet-mo...

Kate Zwaard Courtesy: Shawn Miller and the Library of Congress

We look forward to welcoming Kate Zwaard as the next Executive Director of CNI, effective September 15, 2025. She will join CNI from the Library of Congress, where she presided over the Library’s digital transformation.

Full announcement: www.cni.org/news/kate-zw... @arl.org @educause.bsky.social

Looking forward to @csvconf.bsky.social in Bologna Sept 10-11. Schedule is Online! Registration is now Open!

New on the blog, Organizer @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social Nees Jan van Eck from @cwts.nl explains why CWTS is passionate about enriching #metadata and participating in COMET. A must-read!

👉 www.cometadata.org/blog/cwts

Excited to share the work of @makedatacount.bsky.social at Open Repositories.

Read COMET's ‘Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly publishing and metadata’ on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ydk2tdke

@chodacki.bsky.social, @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, Adam Buttrick, Dione Mentis, and Clare Dean @researchorgs.bsky.social, @pkp.sfu.ca

Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly publishing and metadata - Impact of Social Sciences Improving research metadata quality requires shared stewardship. The authors show how community-led models like COMET are building a more inclusive research infrastructure.

💥New: Better #metadata needs collective stewardship. John Chodacki (@chodacki.bsky.social), Adam Buttrick, Juan Pablo Alperin (‪@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca‬), Clare Dean & Dione Mentis show how community-led models like COMET can boost quality, consistency & trust in research #infrastructure 🤝

Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly publishing and metadata - Impact of Social Sciences Improving research metadata quality requires shared stewardship. The authors show how community-led models like COMET are building a more inclusive research infrastructure.

Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly #publishing and #metadata

@chodacki.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca‬ et al. for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social‬

Image featuring a blog post announcement from DataCite, highlighting John Chodacki as the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, with a photo of Matthew Buys. The background is blue with the DataCite logo.

We’re proud to honor @chodacki.bsky.social with DataCite’s Distinguished Service Award! 🎉
His visionary leadership as the President of the DataCite Executive Board from 2018–2025 transformed our community & advanced open research worldwide.
Thank you, John!👏
More on our blog: doi.org/10.5438/z1wx...

The resilience of open science in times of crisis The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

How does open science hold up in times of crisis?
@jeroenbosman.bsky.social & @jeroenson.bsky.social explore this in a sharp post on Upstream: doi.org/10.54900/pqr...
They outline threats, map types of resilience, and remind us: open science isn’t just at risk…it’s also part of the solution.

CDL Public Statement on Signing the Barcelona Declaration California Digital Library (CDL) is proud to formally sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and commit to supporting and participating in open, transparent and community-governed research information systems. The values articulated in the Barcelona Declaration – openness, tran

California Digital Library is proud to formally sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social and commit to supporting and participating in open, transparent and community-governed research information systems cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2025...

One year ago, on April 16, 2024, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information was launched.

In this blogpost, we highlight some of the developments during this past year:

barcelona-declaration.org/news//202504...

Upcoming Webinar Series: Insights from Machine Actionable Data Management Plans Pilots led by @caldiglib.bsky.social and @arl.org. Learn More and Register: uc3.cdlib.org/2025/04/14/w...

🥁 🥁 🥁 We are extremely thrilled to announce our first keynote speakers for csv,conf,v9: @giorgialodi.bsky.social and @aborruso.bsky.social. 🎉

🦙 🦙 Reminder: you can still submit your talk proposal until April 27. Don't miss the chance to join us in Bologna!

More info: csvconf.com

COMET

Thank you to @cni-org.bsky.social for hosting today’s session on COMET - building new pipelines for collaborative enrichment of PID metadata. Check out our Call to Action at cometadata.org

Submit your talk for CSVconf V9! We will be in Bologna in September. Join us!

Call to Action from the Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) — COMET Through extensive stakeholder consultation, COMET has identified the critical need for improving PID metadata through community-driven enrichment… COMET now looks to transition this work into a develo...

Upcoming Webinar (March 5, 2025) COMET (Collaborative #Metadata Enrichment) Community Call to Action www.cometadata.org/blog/call-to... ##PID
#scholcomm #libraries

Call to Action from the Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) — COMET Through extensive stakeholder consultation, COMET has identified the critical need for improving PID metadata through community-driven enrichment… COMET now looks to transition this work into a develo...

Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has launched a Community Call to Action to transform how we enrich & maintain PID metadata. Now, this FORCE11 WG needs your help to make it happen! Read the Call to Action & join the webinar on March 5 at 3pm UTC! www.cometadata.org/blog/call-to...

Congratulations!

The time is now! Vertical interoperability between research tools: an essential enabler for the FAIRification of data In recent years, interoperability has become an important concept in the field of research data management.  Discussions about interoperability have taken place in published articles and numerous pres...

The time is now! Vertical interoperability between research tools: an essential enabler for the FAIRification of data doi.org/10.54900/8m9...