Check your Metadata Quality with the DataCite Metadata Dashboard

These slides accompany the webinar “Check your Metadata Quality with the DataCite Metadata Dashboard”, presented by Maria Levchenko and Kelly Stathis on 26 May 2026. They introduce the role of DataCite metadata in connecting research outputs, people, organizations, funders, and related resources, and show how rich, open DOI metadata supports discovery, reuse, reporting, and impact tracking. The slide deck presents the DataCite Metadata Dashboard as a practical tool for repository managers and metadata curators to assess metadata completeness, identify gaps, benchmark against other organizations, and monitor progress over time. It includes live demo examples using member, consortium organization, and repository-level views, as well as filters for resource type, registration year, and DataCite Query Syntax. The final section outlines ways to improve metadata through the DataCite REST API, repository integrations, and DataCite Fabrica. A recording of the presentation is available on the DataCite YouTube channel.