One of ONC’s newest data stewardship initiatives developed over the last year is MINTED (Making Identifiers Necessary to Track Evolving Data), funded by the CANARIE Network. Due for public release later this month, this exciting project addresses the growing need to cite research datasets that change over time.

ONC data are very dynamic due to continually accumulating data streams, data reprocessing, and data product code versioning. While there has been a growing recognition of the benefits and need for data citations made evident by the reception of the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable), existing platforms and tools such as Dataverse and the Federated Research Data Repository are currently only able to serve the needs of static or non-...