Help with feedback about plan for Dataverse's DataCite and OpenAIRE exports
Gautier, Julian
Hi everyone,
I'm emailing today to increase awareness of and gather feedback about a proposal regarding Dataverse's OpenAIRE and "Datacite" metadata exports.
In order to reduce the maintenance burden of and confusion about the "Datacite" and "OpenAIRE" metadata exports, and following reviews of the two metadata exports and OpenAIRE's requirements, I've proposed that we merge the two metadata exports, so that Dataverse comes with only one DataCite export, named "DataCite" in the UI and named "oai_datacite" in the API, and interested managers of Dataverse repositories can continue letting OpenAIRE use the "oai_datacite" format to harvest from their Dataverse repositories.
I'd like to learn what folks think about this, particular folks who manage Dataverse repositories and that tell or plan to tell OpenAIRE to harvest the metadata published in their repositories.
If you're interested, by March 1 2026, please review the GitHub issue at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/11916 and reply here or feel free email me with any questions or concerns you might have.
In particular, do you have any questions about the details of the plan? Or do you have any concerns about how this might affect your team's goals of making the research objects that are published in your repositories easier for different types of users to find in OpenAIRE's systems?
After March 1, barring any surprises from your feedback, we'll prioritize the work involved in this change so that the change is made in the version of Dataverse that's released after v6.10.
Best regards,
Julian
