Roadmap

Guided by our multi-year strategic vision and with the collaboration of our global community, our roadmap is focused on iterative development of trusted and sustainable open infrastructure and persistent identifier services to make research outputs, activities, and resources findable, citable, connected, and reused globally. 

Our roadmap is continuously evolving as the research landscape evolves. The information below provides a high-level view of current areas of focus as well as and others on the horizon. All of our efforts are focused on driving the following strategic outcomes:

We invite community members to contribute feedback about new product features and enhancements as well as metadata schema suggestions. Share your ideas, see others’ ideas, and learn more about our feedback process on GitHub.

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Current Activities

Updated 21 April 2026.

Recent highlights

Visualize and monitor DataCite metadata quality with new dashboards
New metadata features in Schema 4.7 for posters and presentations, SWHIDs and RAiDs, and more flexible relationTypes
New features for organization-level reporting in DataCite Commons
Explore DataCite metadata with the 2025 Public Data File
Harvest DataCite metadata quickly and conveniently with the new DataCite Monthly Data File
Citations now include more DataCite DOI metadata
More flexible querying for affiliations, funders, and more

Working on

Support metadata enrichments from external sources to improve metadata precision and completeness
Enhance the precision and consistency of metadata ingestion, normalization, and storage

On the horizon

Improve user authentication and credentialing
Support local validation of REST API submissions for DOI metadata
Facilitate bulk metadata submission to improve metadata precision
Enhance metadata submission for non-API users
Enhance consortium management
Support institutions that are unable to create landing pages for specific resource types
Leverage metadata to support harvesting use cases
Support multiple DOI resolutions