The DataCite Connect Chicago 2025 event, initially scheduled for 18 June 2025, has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. DataCite announced the cancellation on their official event page, expressing regret over the decision. The event was due to be held at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools’ Gordon Parks Arts Hall.
The specific reasons for the Chicago event’s cancellation have not been disclosed. DataCite released a statement in which they stressed the importance of open communications with their community.
DataCite is a global non-profit that helps researchers keep track of and share their work. For a scientist, historian, or archaeologist who has written a paper, DataCite gives your work a kind of digital license plate (called a DOI — Digital Object Identifier) so people can easily find it, cite it, and know who created it. Research institutions become members of DataCite so they can register these identifiers for everything they publish. It’s about making research more visible and accessible.
Previous events have been held in locations like Prague, Bologna and Livingstone, fostering collaboration among researchers, data professionals, and institutions. The event in Chicago was part of a series called “DataCite Connect,” where people from universities, libraries, data centres and research agencies meet to talk about how to improve systems for storing and sharing data.
For more information on upcoming activities, please visit their official website: https://datacite.org.
