A tool for DataCite metadata entry

[David Shotton]

Dear Colleagues,

In collaboration with the DataCite folk (primarily Ed Zukowski and Elizabeth Newbold at the British Library), Tanya Gray has developed a nice Web interface, backed by our MIIDI server, that makes easy the task of entering minimal or full(er) DataCite metadata, structured according to the DataCite Metadata Schema 2.2, with output as a separate nameable local file in various formats including XML, PDF, HTML and RDF. 

This might be of use to registration agencies wishing to submit (rich) metadata to DataCite when minting DataCite DOIs for datasets, or for researchers wishing to create rich metadata to accompany a dataset being submitted to a repository - for example to supplement the 'lean' required metadata when submitting a data package from DataStage to DataBank. 

The DataCite Metadata Entry Tool is available at http://www.miidi.org/datacite , and a blog post describing it is available at http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/datacite-metadata-entry-form/.

We would appreciate use of this service, and feedback as to how it could be improved. 

For background, see my updated British Library DataCite Meeting presentation from last July available at
http://sempublishing.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sempublishing/DataCite/SHOTTON_DataCite-mapping-and-OpenCitations_BL_06July2012.pdf.

The DataCite2RDF mapping document itself is available at http://purl.org/spar/datacite/DataCite2RDF, and a blog post describing that mapping is available at http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/revising-datacite2rdf-mapping/.

With kind regards,

David

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Dr David Shotton
Research Data Management and Semantic Publishing Research Group, 
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 
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