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Metadata missing DOI info #5

Open clroever opened 8 years ago

clroever commented 8 years ago

I was looking for the DOI for "Fernan Lake Bathymetry, Idaho (2014-2015)" and it does not appear in the Metadata record generated by the NKN Data Search.

I went into the EZID portal and found the dataset there. I opened the link for that dataset, and under "About the Identified Object" I selected the location (url). It opens the NKN webpage and when I select "View Full Metadata Record" here, I now see the DOI.

I am not sure why the DOI is missing from the NKN Data Search page. Thus far I have repeated the issue with two other Miles datasets.

flathers commented 7 years ago

The new landing page template for rendering metadata will include more detailed info for a record. One problem with displaying the DOI is that there isn't a specific place to store one in the metadata standards, so if it's in the record, its location is not predictable. For our own records, we can decide on a standard way of including the DOI and then we can display it on the landing page.

The NOAA wiki recommends this, and I see no reason not to follow their lead: "Digital Object Identifiers are most commonly used to identify and cite published datasets. In the ISO standard these identifiers should be included as an MD_Identifier in the CI_Citation for the dataset. This citation describes how the dataset that the metadata describes is to be cited. If the metadata record itself also had a DOI, that would be in the fileIdentifier."

clroever commented 7 years ago

That sounds like a good plan to me. Do many records have DOI's that are not issued by us?