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DataCite DOI

A DOI registered through DataCite, the DOI Registration Agency that serves research data, software, samples, dissertations, instruments, and other non-article research outputs, accompanied by metadata in the DataCite Metadata Schema.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    10.5061/dryad.* (a Dryad dataset).

  • Is an instance

    10.7910/DVN/* (a Harvard Dataverse dataset).

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    A journal article DOI under 10.1038/* is a Crossref DOI.

  • Not an instance

    An ARK identifier is a different scheme, not a DataCite DOI.

Editorial commentary

DataCite is a global non-profit membership organisation founded in 2009 to provide DOIs for research data. Member organisations (data centres, repositories, universities) hold one or more DOI prefixes and deposit DataCite-schema metadata at the time of DOI minting. The DataCite REST API exposes the metadata corpus and powers DataCite Commons, an aggregated view across data, people (ORCID), and organisations (ROR).

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Also known as

DataCite identifier

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element
xml
<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="DataCite DOI"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-doi" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "DataCite DOI",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-doi",
  "description": "A DOI registered through DataCite, the DOI Registration Agency that serves research data, software, samples, dissertations, instruments, and other non-article research outputs, accompanied by metadata in the DataCite Metadata Schema.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/the-persistent-identifier-ecosystem/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-doi",
  "sameAs": [
    "DataCite identifier"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
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