Dear all,

I wanted to share with you an important milestone as part of the Make Data Count initiative and our work toward enabling evaluation of data usage: the first release of the Data Citation Corpus.

The lack of a centralized resource for citations to datasets has hindered the evaluation of how open data is being used. To address this gap, DataCite, supported by the Wellcome Trust, is working to develop the Data Citation Corpus, a resource that stores data citations from a diverse set of sources, and enables evaluation of data usage by the community. Thanks to the collaboration between DataCite and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the corpus brings together for the first time citations for datasets with DOIs and accession numbers. The first release of the corpus includes over eight million data citations, available to the community via a data citation store and an interactive dashboard.

I invite you to join our webinar on February 22 to learn more about the first release of the Data Citation Corpus, and ways in which you can engage with the project. Register for the webinar here:https://datacite.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fm2O1BqxRomjXzkgPWLhaQ#/registration.

Kind regards,

Iratxe