115 SPEC Kit 354: Data Curation
VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
EZID Quick Start Guide: Advanced Create for DOIs
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QUICK START GUIDE: ADVANCED CREATE FOR DOIS
Using EZID’s UI to create a DOI, you must provide DataCite metadata.
Mandatory DataCite properties are indicated with an asterisk (*).
Property Description Notes
Creator* (repeats) The main researchers involved in producing the data, or the
authors of the publication, in priority order. Mandatory
Personal, corporate, or
institutional name(s)
Title* (repeats) A name or title by which a resource is known. Mandatory Free text
Publisher* The name of the entity that holds, archives, publishes,
prints, distributes, releases, issues, or produces the
resource. Mandatory
Free text
PublicationYear* The year when the data was or will be made publicly
available. Mandatory
YYYY
ResourceType A description of the resource. Uses a controlled vocabulary.
Recommended, but will become mandatory in next version.
See Quick Start Guide for
controlled list
Subject (repeats) Subject, keyword, classification code, or key phrase
describing the resource. Recommended
Free text
Contributor (repeats) The institution or person responsible for collecting,
managing, distributing, or otherwise contributing to the
development of the resource. Recommended
See Quick Start Guide for
controlled list. Works
with ORCIDs.
Date (repeats) Different dates relevant to the work. Recommended Uses W3CDTF formats
Language The primary language of the resource. Optional Allowed values are taken
from IETF BCP 47, ISO
639-­‐1 language codes
AlternateIdentifier
(repeats)
An identifier or identifiers other than the primary Identifier
applied to the resource being registered. Optional
Free text
RelatedIdentifier
(repeats)
Identifiers of related resources. (Must be globally unique.)
Recommended
See Quick Start Guide for
controlled list
Size (repeats) Unstructured size information about the resource. Optional Free text
Format (repeats) Technical format of the resource. Optional Free text
Version The version number of the resource. Suggested practice:
track major_version.minor_version. Optional
Free text
Rights (repeats) Any rights information for this resource. Optional Free text
Description (repeats) All additional information that does not fit in any of the
other categories. May be used for technical information.
Recommended
Abstract strongly
suggested
GeoLocation (with
point and box sub-­‐
properties)
Spatial region or named place where the data was gathered
or about which the data is focused. Recommended
Can use WGS 84 (World
Geodetic System)
coordinates or free text
For details about field constraints and all sub-­‐properties, see http://schema.datacite.org