DataCite Integration Issue - Missing Funding Information in Dataverse 6.0

[Alfredo Cosco]

Hello everyone,

I'm experiencing an issue with a Dataverse 6.0 instance regarding DataCite integration: funding information is not being displayed in DataCite records.

I've observed that there are two competing export formats available:

• DataCite export - does not include project funding information
• oai_datacite export (labeled as OpenAIRE) - does include funding information

I've reviewed previous discussions about this issue on both the forum and GitHub, but I must admit I'm unclear whether this problem has a viable solution.

My question: How can I either:

1. Configure DataCite harvesters to use the oai_datacite export format, OR
2. Add funding information to the standard DataCite export?

I would appreciate any guidance or recommendations you might have.

Thank you,
Alfredo

[James Myers]

The metadata sent to DataCite was significantly expanded in v6.4 (incorporating and improving on the open aire export), so upgrading is the best option. I'm not aware of any good workaround for 6.0 beyond trying to back port the code change.

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[Julian Gautier]

Hi Alfredo,

Do you have a sense of who will be harvesting the metadata of the Dataverse instance you're working on? Knowing this might help me or others in the community make other suggestions about which export format to use and why.

All best,

Julian

[Alfredo Cosco]

Hello, 

thanks Jim, thanks Julian.
We expected to find data on funders on Datacite, but instead, it's not being collected.

https://datarepository.unive.it/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.71731/DATA_UNIVE/GRLUXZ

https://commons.datacite.org/doi.org?query=10.71731%2FDATA_UNIVE%2FGRLUXZ

Thanks,

Alfredo

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[Julian Gautier]

Ah I see, sorry. When you wrote "Configure DataCite harvesters to use the oai_datacite export format," I assumed that meant that you were using Dataverse's OAI-PMH harvesting feature so that other repositories or systems could harvest metadata from the repository that you manage.

But since you've written that you "expected to find data on funders on Datacite, but instead, it's not being collected", this makes me think that your goal is to make sure that DataCite has your repository's funding metadata. In that case, that "DataCite" export format you mentioned shows what metadata is being sent to DataCite when datasets in your Dataverse repository are created and updated.

And what Jim wrote about upgrading to v6.4 sounds to me like the best way to do this, too. The upgrade instructions should include steps for sending the additional metadata to DataCite.

I hope that clears things up!

About that "oai_datacite" export format you mentioned, its design was informed by OpenAIRE's metadata guidelines for data repositories and was created so that folks can set up harvesting between their repositories and OpenAIRE's systems. OpenAIRE's metadata guidelines are informed by DataCite's metadata standard, which I think is why folks at OpenAIRE expect the metadata format to be called "oai_datacite", and why the folks who designed Dataverse's "oai_datacite" export format named it "oai_datacite". I think they also did this before others added Dataverse's "DataCite" export format in order to show what metadata is sent to DataCite. I think of this situation kind of like how we called Earth's moon "moon" before we discovered that other planets have moons, too. I wrote about this (the naming confusion and related challenges, not the moon thing 😂) in the GitHub issue at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/5889.

[Alfredo Cosco]

Thank you Julian for the extended explanation, so the only way is to plan the upgrade as soon as possible.

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