Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A Zenodo deposit's DataCite XML containing Title, Creators with ORCID iDs, ResourceType 'Dataset', RelatedIdentifier 'IsSupplementTo' a Crossref DOI, and RightsList containing CC-BY-4.0.
- Is an instance
A national data infrastructure generating DataCite 4.5 XML for DOI minting from its internal records.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Crossref deposit XML is a different schema for journal-article DOIs.
- Not an instance
JATS XML is full-text article markup, not a DOI metadata schema.
Editorial commentary
DataCite’s schema specifies properties such as Identifier, Creator, Title, Publisher, PublicationYear, ResourceType, Subject, Contributor, Date, RelatedIdentifier, GeoLocation, FundingReference, RightsList, and many more, with a small set of mandatory properties and an extensive set of optional ones. Each release of the schema (currently 4.4 and 4.5 in widespread use; 4.6 published 2024) preserves backward compatibility with prior versions. Many repositories generate DataCite-schema records by transformation from their internal model.
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Also known as
DataCite Schema · DataCite XML schema
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="DataCite metadata schema"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-metadata-schema" />{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "DataCite metadata schema",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-metadata-schema",
"description": "The XML/JSON schema (current version 4.x) maintained by the DataCite Metadata Working Group that defines the mandatory, recommended, and optional metadata properties to be supplied when registering a DOI through DataCite.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-information-systems-and-integration/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/datacite-metadata-schema",
"sameAs": [
"DataCite Schema",
"DataCite XML schema"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
