DataCite Cookbook

Document type

Research Data Alliance (RDA) Persistent Identification of Instruments (PIDINST) working group output report

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Prerequisites for minting DOIs
• 3. Collecting the metadata
  • 3.1. Mapping of PIDINST metadata onto DataCite
  • 3.2. Additional properties in the DataCite Schema
• 4. Minting the instrument DOI
  • 4.1. Create the DOI using the web form
  • 4.2. Create the DOI using file upload
  • 4.3. Use the DataCite REST API