Consolidating da|ra - Shaping the future of DOI Registration

da|ra - Registration Agency for Social Science and Economic Data, a consortium at DataCite, is currently under consolidation. Since 2010, da|ra runs its own layer to register research objects, such as data, with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), employing an own metadata schema to foster FAIR data sharing. Nowadays, DataCite offers a low-threshold registration platform, i.e., DataCite Fabrica, and a metadata schema that considers most of the metadata relevant to describe social science and economic data. The consortium (co-)lead thus decided to transfer DOI registration from the da|ra layer to DataCite Fabrica, phasing out the layer and its metadata database.