DataCite Metadata V 3.1
DataCite Summer Meeting 2014
a working group in motion
British Library
Jan Ashton
Elizabeth Newbold
California Digital Library
Joan Starr, Chair
CERN
Lars Holm Nielsen new!
CISTI
Lynne McAvoy former
ETH-Zurich
Ammann Noémie new!
GESIS
Natalija Schleinstein former
Andreas Kempf new!
Inist-CNRS
Marie-Christine Jacquemot-Perbal
Mohamed Yahia new!
OSTI/DOE
Jannean Elliott
Purdue University Library
Amy Barton
SND
Merja Karjalainen
TIB
Sebastian Peters, Liaison to Technical Team
Frauke Ziedorn, Metadata Coordinator
TU Delft
Madeleine de Smaele
V 3.1
Release target: October 2014
Contents:
• New options for controlled lists ++
• Updates to documentation
Image courtesy of Oxnard Public Library, http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6c600758
V 3.1
NEW in the SCHEMA
relationtype pairs
Reviews,
IsReviewedBy
IsDerivedFrom,
IsSourceOf
relatedIdentifierType
arXiv
bibcode
contributorType
DataCurator
Creator attribute
affiliation
Contributor attribute
affiliation
V 3.1
NEW in the DOCUMENTATION
Funder identifier
Clarify how we support this.
Resource type
Harmonize use of “text” with ORCID.
Publication year
Clarify how to handle various use cases.
XML errors in examples
Correct them!
Handling unknown values
Provide suggested standard “unknown” codes.
Long lists of names
Clarify how we support this.
More information in October
Schema:
http://schema.datacite.org
Documentation:
Metadata Discussion Forum…
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/datacite-metadata
The DataCite Members