Frictions:DIYDOI

DIY DOI

A brief report on the mechanics of registering a new DOI with the resgisration agency Crossref.

• Once set up with an account at Crossref, you receive a DOI prefix, 10.XXXX
• Crossref provides a web deposit form that generates the xml for your DOI.
• Enter the initial metadata here (title, authors, publishers, date etc), and the DOI, which consists of your DOI prefix followed by a suffix which you generate yourself.
• According to Crossref, "Suffixes must be unique, contain numbers and/or letters and -._;()/ are case-insensitive and ideally are short string, easily typed yet “dumb” meaning that they contain no obvious information. A best practice DOI would be 10.3390/s18020479"
• On submitting the form, you will be asked for your Crossref login, and an email address where the deposit results should be sent.
• Note, a DOI string can’t be changed once registered, and DOIs cannot be deleted.
• Once the DOI is confirmed you should then create a landing page for the DOI. For the landing page it's usually enough to add the DOI information (title, author and DOI URL as an html link) at the top of the page of the referenced object, however if the item is a PDF it's advised to make a separate page.
• To add, change, or remove metadata from your existing records, you can resubmit your complete metadata record with the changes included.
• You will also receive a copy of the XML by email. You can also edit and submit the XML instead of re-entering your metadata into the web deposit form.
• If the digital objects you are identifying are not part of a Journal, Conference or Book we need to submit our DOIs as Reports.
• The web deposit form for a report has limited fields, but there is the option to create and upload a .csv document to add additional metadata to an existing DOI (Or multiple DOIs at once) using the supplemental metadata upload option on Crossref.
• The csv form is written in plain text with a simple syntax of comma separated terms for the columns and linebreaks to separate the column rows.

Example of the first .csv file of our DIY DOI experiment. The first line forms the column headers, the second line provides the data:

DOI,<funder_name>,<award_number>,<license_ref>,<vor_lic_start_date>
10.70934/0yxnhx,CHANSE,101004509,https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html,2024-10-25 

• Notes on adding or changing metadata. Our test DOI for FRICTIONS, https://doi.org/10.70934/0yxnhx, we file as a report. Using the web upload form, reports have limited fields, including no licence or funder information, unlike with journal articles that include those fields by default (however ORCID records of the authors can still be added). To add licence and funder information requires a separate csv file, which can then refer to one or more DOI, and upload via the web deposit form’s supplemental metadata upload option (beta).csv layout is super basic: the first line forms the column headers, the second line provides the data criteria,criteria linebreak metadata, metadata. Note that when you update the CSV it doesn'timmediately update the json record but filters through after a while