Itrend – DataCite Member Panel: Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge

This presentation introduces the work of the Chilean Institute for Disaster Resilience (Itrend) and its strategic adoption of DataCite services to enhance national and regional access to disaster-related data. It provides an overview of Itrend’s mission as a technological public institute dedicated to strengthening Chile’s disaster resilience through data-driven solutions, stakeholder collaboration, and the development of public-interest digital tools. The presentation highlights Itrend’s initiatives across multiple hazard areas, including earthquakes, floods, forest fires, and emergency early warning systems, and showcases the Datos para Resiliencia platform, an open-access Dataverse-based repository that assigns DataCite DOIs to all datasets. By integrating persistent identifiers and high-quality metadata, Itrend aims to standardize risk-related datasets, improve traceability and reuse, and support researchers, government agencies, and technical teams working on risk modelling and resilience planning. The talk also reflects on the challenges of coordinating diverse data-producing institutions, scaling the repository, and promoting metadata standards, demonstrating how DataCite services help strengthen Chile’s broader disaster-risk data ecosystem. A recording of the presentation is available on the DataCite YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKrGLiDyqA&t=2088s