Interagency Data Stewardship/Identifiers/DataSetDOIResults

Summary of Results and Issues using DOI's for entire data sets

• The schema used to validate a DOI request changes with time; the one originally provided no longer worked because of this. At the time of writing the current schema is here.
• DOI's can be assigned in batches - but the XML for each batch must be less than 5K in size
• The XML consists of a header and body
  • The header contains the following fields:
    • Batch ID
    • Timestamp
    • Depositor information (name and email)
    • Registrant information (name)
  • The body can contain a list of databases. For each database the following fields are used:
    • Database metadata
      • Database metadata language
      • Database title
      • Publisher (name and location)
      • Institution (name, acronym, place, department)
    • Dataset
      • Dataset type (typically collection)
      • Contributors (name, role (e.g., author), sequence (ie., first, second, etc.)
      • Dataset title
      • Dataset description
      • Format
      • Citation_list
      • Component_list
      • Database Date (publication date, update date, or creation date)
      • DOI data (doi value, URL) - the only required fields

Best Practices

• Do not include an organization name in the DOI you assign...
• Do not assign a DOI to a data set unless you intend to permanently make at least the metadata for the data set available (perhaps with a retired status)