DataCite Metadata Schema Repository

Metadata Store

Feedback

If you have any comments on

any challenges you face with the current schema - i.e. what's not working for you?
any ideas you have for additions that would make the schema work better for you, or
questions you have about the schema,

please contact us via our Google discussion group. We will review the suggestions and comments on a monthly basis, and reply using this same discussion forum.

Available versions

For our Metadata store all these versions are valid although only one version is considered preferred at any given moment of time. Please note that each version has a different XML namespace.

Each incoming to Metadata store XML document should indicate schema location in the root element.

DataCite Metadata Schema 3.0 (released 2013-07-24; preferred)
DataCite Metadata Schema 2.2 (released 2011-07-01)
DataCite Metadata Schema 2.1 (released 2011-03-28)

Versioning

Each available version of a schema is a subdirectory containing a set of files. Those files constitute single metadata version. There are all the required xsd files, a sample xml file and a pdf documentation. The files don't reference any other files outside of their version subdirectory.

Old Versions

These are version are not accepted by DataCite MDS any more.

DataCite Metadata Schema 2.0 (released 2011-01-24)

Help

If you have questions please use the contact form on datacite.org.

Source code

This project is hosted on GitHub.