Datacite information files

Introduction

datacite information files are used to allow the principal scientist to provide information for DOI datacite files. The DataCite standard is described at https://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.3/ and there are some tools for directly creating Datacite files, such as https://github.com/claudiodsf/datacite-metadata-generator

The datacite information files simplify entering values for principal scientists, by proposing a limited but usually sufficient list of fields and values for these fields, as shown below.

One of the simplifications is that only a few identifier schemes are proposed: ORCID for people and ROR or GRID for organizations. To find the ROR URI for your organization, you can go to https://ror.org and search for your organization, or just do a web search on “{your institution} ROR”

The fields provided are:

Name	#	Type	Description
title	1	string	Title for the experiment
description	1	string	Description of the experiment
creators	1	list of Entity	List of authors (Entity objets), in publication order
subjects	1	list of string	Keywords |
contributors	1	object
` data_collectors`	1	list of Entity	Data collectors not in creators (engineers, scientists)
` project_leader`	0-1	Entity	use only if not the same as the first creator
` project_members`	0-1	list of Entity	Participants not in creators or data_collectors
related_identifiers	0-1	list of RelIdent	Things like articles, other DOIs, etc
place	1	string	The experiment location
funders	0-1	list of Funder	Experiment funders

Entity

describes people or organizations in the lists of creators or contributors:

Name	#	Type	Description
name	1	string	“family, given” if Personal name
type	0-1	string	‘Organization’, if not a Personal name
identifier	0-1	string	affiliation unique identifier (i.e. ‘https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3260-1826’) |
scheme	1	string	identifier scheme, required if identifier provided (i.e. ‘ORCID’)
affiliations	0-1	list	list of affiliations
` name`	1	string	affiliation name (i.e ‘IPGP’)
` identifier`	0-1	string	affiliation unique identifier (i.e. ‘https:/ror.org/004gzgz66’)
` scheme`	1	string	identifier scheme, required if identifier provided (i.e. ‘ROR’)

RelIdent

describes related identifiers, such as DOIs and articles

Name	#	Type	Description
identifier	1	string	affiliation unique identifier (i.e. ‘https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3260-1826’) |
scheme	1	sc_string_	identifier scheme
relation	1	rel_string_	relation between the identifier and the current datacite:

An sc_string is a string chosen from: ARK arXiv bibcode DOI EAN13 EISSN Handle IGSN ISBN ISSN ISTC LISSN LSID PMID PURL UPC URL URN w3id

A rel_string is a string chosen from: IsCitedBy Cites IsSupplementTo IsSupplementedBy IsContinuedBy Continues IsDescribedBy Describes HasMetadata IsMetadataFor HasVersion IsVersionOf IsNewVersionOf IsPreviousVersionOf IsPartOf HasPart IsPublishedIn IsReferencedBy References IsDocumentedBy Documents IsCompiledBy Compiles IsVariantFormOf IsOriginalFormOf IsIdenticalTo IsReviewedBy Reviews IsDerivedFrom IsSourceOf IsRequiredBy Requires IsObsoletedBy Obsoletes

Funder

describes funders

Below is an example datacite information file from _examples/datacite/EMSO-MOMAR_OBS.datacite.yaml

---
format_version: "0.110"
datacite:
    title : EMSO-MOMAR
    description : "Seismology component of a multi-year multidisciplinary
                  geophysical observatory on Lucky Strike volcano,
                  Mid-Atlantic Ridge (37°N, 32°W)"
    creators:
        -   name : Cannat, Mathilde
            identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5157-8473
            scheme: ORCID
        -   name : Crawford, Wayne
            identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3260-1826
            scheme: ORCID
        -   name : IPGP Marine Geosciences Team
            type : Organization
            affiliations :
                - name: IPGP
                  identifier: https://ror.org/004gzqz66
                  scheme : ROR
    subjects :
        - Mid-ocean ridge volcanos
        - Hydrothermal fields
    dates_collected:  2007-07-18/2022-08-24
    contributors:
        data_collectors:
            -   name: Daniel, Romuald
                affiliations:
                    - name: INSU-IPGP OBS Facility
            -   name: Besancon, Simon
                affiliations:
                    - name: INSU-IPGP OBS Facility
            -   name: INSU-IPGP OBS Facility
                type: Organization
                identifier: "Need to make an ROR for the facility"
                scheme: ROR
        project_members:
            -   name: Bohidar, Soumya
                affiliations:
                -   name: IPGP
    related_identifiers:
        -   identifier: www.doi.org/1234567
            scheme: DOI
            relation: HasMetadata
    place: Lucky Strike volcano, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
    funders:
        -   name: ANR
            identifier: https://ror.org/00rbzpz17
            scheme: ROR
            award_URI: https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-14-CE02-0008
            award_title: "Magma chamber to micro-habitats : dynamics of deep sea
                         hydrothermal ecosystems – LuckyScales"