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:
- Metadata quality and completeness
- Usability and discoverability of metadata and services
- Infrastructure integrity and scalability
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 29 December 2025.
Recent highlightsCitations now include more DataCite DOI metadata
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More flexible querying for affiliations, funders, and more
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Performance and scalability improvements to drive
infrastructure integrity
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Improved support for GeoLocation properties in the REST API
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Enhancements to ORCID Search and Link and auto-update to
expand connections between researchers and their research
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Data Citation Corpus v4 release with 5.2 million new data
citations from Europe PMC and more
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Working on Support metadata enrichments from external sources to improve
metadata precision and completeness Learn more
Offer tools for organizations to report on funded works
Offer a monthly data file snapshot service to support metadata
harvesting, discoverability, and analysis Learn more
Enhance the precision and consistency of metadata ingestion,
normalization, and storage
On the horizonImprove 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
