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...
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...
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...
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
🌟 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!
John Chodacki
John Chodacki
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...
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...
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.
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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...
Many scholarly infrastructure business models fit institutions poorly. They tie cost to transactions, outputs, or rising use in ways that make adoption harder to sustain over time. That is a problem f...
For open science to advance, it is essential to monitor its practices to meaningfully assess whether they are achieving their intended goals for research and society. The Open Science Monitoring Initi...