Dear Members, Greetings. I am including below an invitation from Paul Vierkant, Outreach Manager at DataCite, regarding a series of upcoming DataCite webinars and community events. These sessions focus on the integration of persistent identifiers, particularly DataCite DOIs and ORCID IDs, metadata reuse by harvesters, and updates on DataCite services. The events may be of interest to colleagues involved in research data management, repositories, and persistent identifiers Please review the details below and register if you're interested. With regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth Moderator, LIS-Forum DataCite Ambassador (India) ----------------------- Date: 16 January 2026 From: Paul Vierkant<paul.vierkant@datacite.org> Dear All, You have probably heard that persistent identifiers work better when they work together. DataCite’s integration with ORCID is a great example of this, making it easier to connect researchers to their research outputs and activities and track their impact over time. We’re continuing to optimize DataCite services to support stronger connections with ORCID, and we’re excited to share these updates with the community in a webinar taking place during Love Data Week on 10 February at 16:00 UTC. In line with this year’s Love Data Week theme of “Where’s the Data,” the webinar will review how connections between DataCite and ORCID make it possible for data to be discovered, analyzed, and attributed. We will also feature a real-world case study with SPARC Science. The session is designed for researchers, DataCite and ORCID members, repository managers, research support staff, and anyone involved in managing or integrating persistent identifiers. Please register using the following link: https://datacite.zoom.us/webinar/register/3517679634289/WN_H5S9VYLZSKqE1g2-X... ________ If you’re interested in how DataCite metadata is being reused by harvesters, please also sign up for the next DataCite Harvesters Interest Group meeting, which is taking place on 28 January at 16:00 UTC. Please register using the following link: https://datacite.zoom.us/meeting/register/puIhUuAvTpCF2cpDSusFMw#/registrati... ________ Join us on 25 March at 15:00 UTC for the first DataCite Open Hours of 2026! In this session, you get updates from the DataCite team, including new and upcoming feature developments. You also hear from new community members about how they are using DataCite services. Please register using the following link: https://datacite.org/event/datacite-open-hours-march-2026/ All sessions will be recorded and made publicly available along with slides for your reference. Please share this invite within your networks. Best regards, Paul -- Paul Vierkant | Outreach Manager | DataCite he/him/his | Central European time<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/germany/berlin> E: paul.vierkant@datacite.org<mailto:paul.vierkant@datacite.org> | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4448-3844 W: datacite.org<https://datacite.org/> | Blog<https://datacite.org/blog/> | Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/datacite.org> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/datacite> | Mastodon<https://openbiblio.social/@datacite> Support Desk<mailto:support@datacite.org> | Support Site<https://support.datacite.org/> A: DataCite -- Welfengarten 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany