1. Identifier

Obligation: Mandatory

Occurrences: 1

Definition: The Identifier is a unique string that identifies a resource.

For software, determine whether the identifier is for a specific version of a piece of software, (per the Force11 Software Citation Principles 2), or for all versions.

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) registered by a DataCite Member. The format should be 10.21384/foo.

Sub-properties:

1.a identifierType

Example XML

<identifier identifierType="DOI">10.21384/foo</identifier>

1.a identifierType

Occurrences: 1

Definition: The type of Identifier.

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

Controlled List Value:

DOI

Footnotes

2: Smith AM, Katz DS, Niemeyer KE, FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group. (2016) Software citation principles. PeerJ Computer Science 2:e86 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86