2018-02-07 RDRIWG Virtual Meeting

Using DataCite as a metadata standard

• New use case that hasn’t come up before - mostly focused on DOI registration
• Issues with datasets that don't have a DOI hasn’t come up before 
• DOI requirement built into schema for DOI registration
• Next update will occur at the end of the year
• Could update schema to relax DOI requirement
  • This will take 6 months
• Two options in the meantime
  • Fork the schema in the short term
  • Use the schema without validation
• Do we need schema validation? Probably not
• Document in recommendations that our use case does not require a DOI
• Validation is up to the implementer
• Allow identifier to be unspecified as per vocabulary
• Does our use case make sense for DataCite
  • FREYA project - life sciences don’t use DOIs
    • Adopting schema.org
    • No central index for datasets, schema.org is a good fit
• DataCite in this context is like a modern DC
• General agreement that we should work with DataCite to relax DOI requirements and in the meantime not require validation