12. RelatedIdentifier

Obligation: Recommended

Occurrences: 0-n

Definition: Identifiers of related resources. These must be globally unique identifiers.

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

Free text.

Note: DataCite Event Data collects all references to related resources based on the relatedIdentifier property.

Sub-properties:

Example XML

<relatedIdentifiers>
    <relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="IsCitedBy" resourceTypeGeneral="JournalArticle">10.21384/bar</relatedIdentifier>
    <relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="URL" relationType="HasMetadata" relatedMetadataScheme="DDI-L" schemeType="XSD" schemeURI="http://www.ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Lifecycle/3.1/XMLSchema/instance.xsd">https://example.com/</relatedIdentifier>
</relatedIdentifiers>

12.a relatedIdentifierType

Occurrences: 1

Definition: The type of the RelatedIdentifier.

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

If relatedIdentifier is used, relatedIdentifierType is mandatory.

Controlled List Values:

• ARK

• arXiv

• bibcode

• DOI

• EAN13

• EISSN

• Handle

• IGSN

• ISBN

• ISSN

• ISTC

• LISSN

• LSID

• PMID

• PURL

• UPC

• URL

• URN

• w3id

See Appendix 1: Controlled List Definitions - relatedIdentifierType for full names and examples.

12.b relationType

Occurrences: 1

Definition: Description of the relationship of the resource being registered (A) and the related resource (B).

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

If RelatedIdentifier is used, relationType is mandatory.

Note: Some relationTypes are processed as citations and references. Read more about Contributing Citations and References on the DataCite support site.

Controlled List Values:

• IsCitedBy

• Cites

• IsSupplementTo

• IsSupplementedBy

• IsContinuedBy

• Continues

• IsDescribedBy

• Describes

• HasMetadata

• IsMetadataFor

• HasVersion

• IsVersionOf

• IsNewVersionOf

• IsPreviousVersionOf

• IsPartOf

• HasPart

• IsPublishedIn

• IsReferencedBy

• References

• IsDocumentedBy

• Documents

• IsCompiledBy

• Compiles

• IsVariantFormOf

• IsOriginalFormOf

• IsIdenticalTo

• IsReviewedBy

• Reviews

• IsDerivedFrom

• IsSourceOf

• IsRequiredBy

• Requires

• IsObsoletedBy

• Obsoletes

• IsCollectedBy

• Collects

See Appendix 1: Controlled List Definitions - relationType for definitions, examples and usage notes.

12.c relatedMetadataScheme

Occurrences: 0-1

Definition: The name of the scheme.

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

Use only with this relation pair: (HasMetadata/ IsMetadataFor)

See Appendix 1: Controlled List Definitions - relationType - HasMetadata for example.

12.d schemeURI

Occurrences: 0-1

Definition: The URI of the relatedMetadataScheme.

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

Use only with this relation pair: (HasMetadata/ IsMetadataFor)

See Appendix 1: Controlled List Definitions - relationType - HasMetadata for example.

12.e schemeType

Occurrences: 0-1

Definition: The type of the relatedMetadataScheme, linked with the schemeURI.

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

Use only with this relation pair: (HasMetadata/ IsMetadataFor)

Examples: XSD, DDT, Turtle

12.f resourceTypeGeneral

Occurrences: 0-1

Definition: The general type of the related resource.

Allowed values, examples, other constraints:

Use the controlled list values as stated in 10.a resourceTypeGeneral:

• Audiovisual

• Book

• BookChapter

• Collection

• ComputationalNotebook

• ConferencePaper

• ConferenceProceeding

• DataPaper

• Dataset

• Dissertation

• Event

• Image

• InteractiveResource

• Instrument

• Journal

• JournalArticle

• Model

• OutputManagementPlan

• PeerReview

• PhysicalObject

• Preprint

• Report

• Service

• Software

• Sound

• Standard

• StudyRegistration

• Text

• Workflow

• Other

See Appendix 1: Controlled List Definitions - resourceTypeGeneral for definitions, examples and usage notes.