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115 SPEC Kit 354: Data Curation VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES EZID Quick Start Guide: Advanced Create for DOIs http://guides.lib.vt.edu/c.php?g=465788&p=3202323 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