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,
South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
Phone: +44 (0)1865-271193 Skype: davidshotton