Manually Minting/Updating a DOI

Manually Minting a DOI

Organisations are required to provide the minimum metadata requirements to mint a DOI. Below are the required metadata fields:

• URL - The URL for the landing page of the dataset. 

• Title - A name or title by which a resource is known.

• Creators - The main researchers involved in producing the data, or the authors of the publication, in priority order.

• Publisher - The holder of the data (including archives as appropriate) or institution that submitted the work.

• Publication Year - The year when the data was or will be made publicly available.

• ResourceType (with mandatory general type description sub property) - A description of the resource.

There are 2 ways to mint a DOI: 

• Via form: Refer to Field descriptions for form for more information on the required or expected values for each field in the form

• Via file upload: Refer to Field descriptions for file upload for more information on the required or expected values for each field in the file upload window

Managing DOIs

• Update a DOI: change your DOI metadata, including the URL; change the state of a DOI from Findable (equivalent to Active status) to Registered (equivalent to Inactive status);

• Delete a draft DOI: draft DOIs have not been registered to the global handle system therefore these DOIs only exist at DataCite Fabrica and can be deleted.

• DOI states explained: understand the 3 DOI states: Draft, Registered and Findable