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(2024). DataCite Metadata Schema for the Publication and Citation of Research Data and Other Research Outputs. Version 4.5. DataCite e.V. <a class="reference external" href="https://doi.org/10.14454/g8e5-6293">https://doi.org/10.14454/g8e5-6293</a></p> </div> <p>Contributors from the DataCite Metadata Working Group:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4676-5263">Jan Ashton<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/05dhe8b71">British Library<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a> (co-chair of working group)</p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2506-9947">Isabel Bernal<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/02gfc7t72">Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a> (co-chair of working group)</p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6836-1193">Felix Burger<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/04aj4c181">TIB<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8963-3415">Madeleine de Smaele<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/02e2c7k09">TU Delft Library<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2551-6399">Samantha Foulger<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/05a28rw58">ETH Zurich<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2058-5160">Vanessa Gabriel<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/05591te55">University Library of the LMU Munich<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3585-6733">Ted Habermann<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/05bp8ka05">Metadata Game Changers<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-6428">Joseph Padfield<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/043kfff89">The National Gallery<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1135-5942">Sarah Ramdeen<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/00hj8s172">Columbia University<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8300-9443">Anne Raugh<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/047s2c258">University of Maryland<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3368-5080">Wendy Robertson<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/036jqmy94">University of Iowa<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6289-5717">Mike Shallcross<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/02q7mkh03">Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7829-1918">Mohamed Yahia<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/02mn0vt57">INIST-CNRS<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6133-4045">Kelly Stathis<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/04wxnsj81">DataCite<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> <li><p><a class="orcid" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3484-6875">Kristian Garza<img alt="ORCID logo" src="https://info.orcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orcid_16x16.png"/></a>, <a class="affiliation" href="https://ror.org/04wxnsj81">DataCite<img alt="ROR logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-logos/main/ror-icon-rgb.svg"/></a></p></li> </ul> <section id="contents"> <h2>Contents<a class="headerlink" href="#contents" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h2> <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="introduction/">Introduction</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="introduction/about-datacite/">About DataCite</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="introduction/about-schema/">About the DataCite Metadata Schema</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="introduction/version-update/">Version 4.5 Update</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="introduction/citation/">Citation</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/">DataCite Metadata Properties</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/overview/">Overview</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/identifier/">1. Identifier</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/creator/">2. Creator</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/title/">3. Title</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/publisher/">4. Publisher</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/publicationyear/">5. PublicationYear</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/subject/">6. Subject</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/contributor/">7. Contributor</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/date/">8. Date</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/language/">9. Language</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/resourcetype/">10. ResourceType</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/alternateidentifier/">11. AlternateIdentifier</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/relatedidentifier/">12. RelatedIdentifier</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/size/">13. Size</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/format/">14. Format</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/version/">15. Version</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/rights/">16. Rights</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/description/">17. Description</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/geolocation/">18. GeoLocation</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/fundingreference/">19. FundingReference</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="properties/relateditem/">20. RelatedItem</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/">Appendices</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-1/">Appendix 1: Controlled List Definitions</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-1/contributorType/">contributorType</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-1/dateType/">dateType</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-1/resourceTypeGeneral/">resourceTypeGeneral</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-1/relatedIdentifierType/">relatedIdentifierType</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-1/relationType/">relationType</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-1/descriptionType/">descriptionType</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-2/">Appendix 2: Earlier Version Update Notes</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="appendices/appendix-3/">Appendix 3: Standard values for unknown information</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="mappings/">Mappings</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="mappings/dublincore/">DataCite to Dublin Core Mapping 4.5</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="mappings/dublincore-qualified/">DataCite to Dublin Core Qualified Mapping</a></li> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="mappings/dublincore-local/">DataCite - Dublin Core local extension</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="mappings/force11-software-citation/">FORCE11 Software Citation Principles Mapping</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="mappings/pidinst/">PIDINST Schema Mapping</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="guidance/">Guidance</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="guidance/dynamic-datasets/">Citation of dynamic datasets</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="guidance/software-citation/">Support for software citation</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="guidance/related-item-guide/">Using RelatedItem for publication information and related resources</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="xml/">XML Schema and Examples</a></li> </ul> </div> </section> </section> </div> </div> <footer><div class="rst-footer-buttons" role="navigation" aria-label="Footer"> <a href="introduction/" class="btn btn-neutral float-right" title="Introduction" accesskey="n" rel="next">Next <span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right" aria-hidden="true"></span></a> </div> <hr/> <div role="contentinfo"> <p> This work is licensed under <a href="license_url">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)</a>.</p> </div> Built with <a href="https://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> using a <a href="https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme">theme</a> provided by <a href="https://readthedocs.org">Read the Docs</a>. </footer> </div> </div> </section> </div> <script> jQuery(function () { SphinxRtdTheme.Navigation.enable(true); }); </script> <style> /* Sidebar */ .wy-nav-side { background: #243B54; } </style> </body> </html>