Cannot publish dataset (Dataverse v5.10.1)

[Data CUHK]

Hi everyone,

We have encountered a problem of not able to publish a dataset. 

It is followed with the log "could not be published due to a failure to register, or update the Global Identifier for the dataset or one of the files in it."

Since the unpublished dataset DOI was submitted for some proceedings and wanted to be kept the same, and thus unable to make another same deposit, is there a solution and reason for this problem? 

I have seen several other enquiries regarding this issue but it seems that there isn't a general solution...

Thanks,

Jack

[Donald Sizemore II]

Hello,

We’ve seen Datacite have intermittent trouble, which results in partially-reserved identifiers, then this error at publication. Does the “Reserve PID” endpoint succeed, and if so, can you then publish?

https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.9/api/native-api.html#reserve-a-pid

Don

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Hi everyone,

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[Data CUHK]

Dear Don,

Thanks for the reply! I have read the "Reserve a PID" section and come up with some questions.

For the command line (attached below), suppose I'm the superuser and that user who couldn't publish is not, do I use my token for $API_TOKEN and his DOI for $PID?

We also wonder how and why do some datasets not need it, and perhaps, if such implementation changes anything irreversibly on the server side?

Thanks

Jack

curl -H "X-Dataverse-key:$API_TOKEN" -X POST "$SERVER_URL/api/pids/:persistentId/reserve?persistentId=$PID"

[Data CUHK]

UPDATE:

We have tried with publishing newly created datasets from other users and it still failed.

Jack

[Philip Durbin]

To be clear, publishing worked fine for a while but now you're getting errors? What changed? Did you upgrade Dataverse?

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[Data CUHK]

Yes it has been working fine but we are now getting error in publishing. There was no upgrade done and no newly added code/customization.

Is there a way to manually reserve/register a DOI (by DataCite Fabrica, or by the above command)?

Jack

[Philip Durbin]

Sure, you can always interact directly with DataCite via their APIs.

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