DOIs stuck in registration queue on DSpace but live on Datacite

[Joanna Lee]

Hi, all.

We are on DSpace 7.6.1 and tried to make updates to use the new Datacite 4 schema. We updated the DIM2Datacite.xsl file and changed the Datacite schema location/namespace in config like so:

crosswalk.dissemination.DataCite.schemaLocation = \
    http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 \
    http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4/metadata.xsd

crosswalk.dissemination.DataCite.namespace = http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4

Our DOIs are now live on Datacite with the Datacite 4 schema. However, within DSpace, the DOIs are only visible within the status tab of items as "queued for registration." They have not been written to the identifier.uri field in the metadata.

 

Any ideas on how to fix this?

The other odd thing is that DOIs are being assigned retrospectively to old content (pre-dating our DSpace 7x upgrade which is when our integration with Datacite started). When we upgraded to 7, DOIs were only registered for new content.  Now DSpace is minting (and registering) DOIs for old content. I'm confused about why this is happening now? Is it the expected behavior for DOIs to be minted retrospectively? Maybe DSpace tried to mint DOIs for these records when we first upgraded to 7x but they got stuck and are now unstuck?

Thanks for your help!

Joanna

[Carolyn Sullivan]

Dear Joanna,

I don't have an answer for your primary question, but regarding DOIs being assigned retroactively to old content, we had the same issue.  In fact, our system suddenly minted 4000 DOIs at the time we migrated from DSpace 6 to DSpace 7.6.1.  We were using DataCite in our previous version.  We have absolutely no idea why it happened.  If you do figure out the reason for this behaviour in your DSpace, do please let me know--maybe it will help me finally figure out what went on with ours.  

Good luck, and thanks,

Carolyn.