DataCite Metadata Search available now

[Edward Zukowski]

Dear all,

I am happy to announce availability of DataCite's Metadata Search service. The
service can be accessed at http://search.datacite.org

DataCite Metadata Search offers a simple search interface for metadata
of datasets registered with MDS. Just type keywords in the search
field and hit the Enter key (or click on the Search button) to get a
list of results. You can drill into search results by any value in the
designated fields. You can also use more advanced queries e.g.

subject:geology ==> documents containing geology in metadata field subject
allocator:(BL OR TIB) ==> documents belonging to DataCite members BL or TIB
publicationYear:[2000 TO 2005] ==> documents published between 2000 and 2005
uploaded:[NOW-5DAYS TO NOW] ==> documents uploaded in the last 5 days

Apart from the user interface there is also an API. For more details see
the help page http://search.datacite.org/help.html

Please note indexing takes place once a day so this service not will
provide metadata submitted in the last 24h.

This is our first beta release so we encourage you to test the service
and we would love to hear your feedback.

Last but not least I'd like to thank all who contributed to this
release. Extra special thanks go to Sebastian Peters, TIB who provided
the implementation of this software.

Best wishes,
Ed

[Peters, Sebastian]

Dear Sarah,

I don't understand what you mean by "DataCite metadata is manually created".
Normally it is not. Most of our datacentres uses MDS API to connect with
their infrastructure, and pushes metadata changes automatically to our MDS.

At the moment we do not harvest externally metadata, that's right. You have
to push your metadata to MDS. In the future we will probably support OAI for
harvesting.

Best
Sebastian

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Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
German National Library of Science and Technology
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30167 Hannover

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E-Mail: sebastia...@tib.uni-hannover.de

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Dear All,

I've had a query about the DataCite metadata which I'm hoping someone can
answer for me. Copied below:

Because the DataCite metadata is manually created, and the fact that
it is not possible for them to harvest existing metadata via a CSW service,
maintenance of DataCite metadata is going to be an issue, especially if
publicly available via this search interface.

Do you know whether this maintenance overhead has been considered,
and how it might work in practice?

Thanks and best wishes,
Sarah

Dear all,

Best wishes,
Ed
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[sarah.c...@stfc.ac.uk]

Thanks Sebastien, the query was raised by one of my colleagues, so I've passed your response on. He's gone on holiday now though, so it might be a while before he gets back to me.

Sarah

Dear Sarah,

Best
Sebastian

Dear All,

Dear all,

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