🌟 What a close to #FORCE2026! DORA Co-Chair @ginnybarbour.bsky.social gave a powerful keynote on rebuilding trust in publishing. Responsible #ResearchAssessment is the core of an interconnected system. Thank you to @force11.bsky.social organizers and all participants! "To Go Far, Go Together."

Professor Lily Kong, President of Singapore Management University, is opening plenary of #FORCE2026. How refreshing to hear a University leader articulate our challenges and a path forward! Inspiring!

I wrote this after years of watching research institutions struggle with infrastructure pricing models that seem increasingly disconnected from how institutions actually operate. Take a look on @upstreamblog.bsky.social upstream.force11.org/why-institut...

At FORCE2026 Conference in Singapore, Make Data Count Advisors @chodacki.bsky.social and @kristiholmes.bsky.social are looking forward to being part of a panel that takes this challenge of research data as a first-class scholarly output for tracking and reporting head on. tinyurl.com/s22z4jp9

Are you interested in hosting a future FORCE11 Conference? force11.org/post/call-fo... As we get ready for FORCE2026, hosted by Singapore Management University, we are looking for interested teams for 2027 & 2028. Join us in Singapore June 3-6, 2026. More info: event.fourwaves.com/force2026/pa...

The output describing the Typology of Data Uses developed by the @force11.bsky.social FORCE11 Data Usage Typologies Working Group is now available: zenodo.org/records/1918... More on the blog: makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

Project Results From COMET: “Unlocking Author-Affiliation #Metadata For All of arXiv” www.infodocket.com/2026/02/17/r... #LLMs #arXiv #preprints #scholcomm @cometadata.bsky.social

RDA-US is launching a funded program for US-based professionals working in/with research infrastructure. Great professional development and networking opportunity...and great way for newcomers to engage with the Research Data Alliance (RDA)! rda-us.org/announcing-t...

1.9 million author entries. 2.1 million affiliation entries. 1.75 million matched to ROR IDs. That's what our fine-tuned open-weight model extracted from 430,000 arXiv preprints. Join us on 21 Jan to discuss the results. 📅 Register: datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New @upstreamblog.bsky.social post, "Monitoring open science with scholarly content providers: what OSMI’s survey tells us," on the Open Science Monitoring Initiative's survey to identify current monitoring practices among journals, repositories and other providers. doi.org/10.54900/5gj...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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!

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

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...

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

Science is not a liberal conspiracy.

In our annual ROR Community Update on February 4th, we’ll reflect on what ROR accomplished in 2024, discuss what’s ahead for ROR in 2025, and ask for your thoughts on areas of focus. Register now!

Share your feedback on POSI 2.0 uc3.cdlib.org/2025/01/21/p...

Honored to co-chair the Make Data Count & HELIOS Open ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group with @chodacki.bsky.social & THRILLED about working with this outstanding group of experts! www.heliosopen.org/news/announc... @nucatsinstitute.bsky.social @galterlibrary.bsky.social

Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem - New post on Upstream: doi.org/10.54900/d3c...

AI in Action: The GREI Data Repository AI Taxonomy - highlights the diverse opportunities that AI can potentially offer across the data lifecycle, from acquisition to analysis medium.com/@blog-grei/a... @chodacki.bsky.social @hahnel.org #GREI #ODSS

SCOSS selects Make Data Count as infrastructure essential to #openscience! 🤩 makedatacount.org/read-our-blo...

SCOSS has selected Make Data Count, African Journals Online, Episciences, and SciPost for its sixth funding cycle! dlvr.it/TGcTyC