1 Introduction 1.1 The DataCite Consortium 1.2 DataCite Community Participation 1.3 The Metadata Schema 1.4 Version 4.32 Update 2 DataCite Metadata Properties 2.1 Overview 2.2 Citation 2.3 DataCite Properties 3 XML Example 4 XML Schema 5 Other DataCite Services Appendices Appendix 1: Controlled List Definitions Appendix 2: Earlier Version Update Notes Appendix 3: Standard values for unknown information Appendix 4: Version 4.1 Changes in support of software citation Appendix 5: FORCE11 Software Citation Principles Mapping

Commissioned by the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library of Science and Technology, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, engage AG conducted a quantitative online survey on the topic of information procurement and publishing behaviour among researchers in the natural sciences and engineering between the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. More than 1,400 researchers from German higher education institutions (HEIs) and non-university research institutions provided insight into their research activities...

As part of our 10-year anniversary, we want to tell you the story of how DataCite was founded 10 years ago. Therefore, we approached several people ‘who were there’ to tell you their part of the story. This guest blog post is by Frauke Ziedorn, who...