DataCite Content Service Beta

What is this service?

This service exposes metadata stored in the DataCite Metadata Store (MDS) using multiple formats. In addition, data centres who participate in DataCite can provide their own formats, both for data and metadata.

There are two ways of using this service: HTTP content negotiation or HTML links.

Content negotiation

In this method you will not access this service directly. Instead, you will make a DOI resolution via dx.doi.org using an HTTP client (not your regular web browser!) which allows you to specify HTTP Accept header. Content negotiation for DOI manes is a collaborative effort of CrossRef and DataCite. Please be sure to check the DOI Content Negotiation documentation.

HTML links

This method can be used with a regular web browser. In order to get a specific format please construct URL following this pattern:

http://data.datacite.org/MIME_TYPE/DOI

for example, a counterpart for the above citation can be obtained by linking to:

Shortcut: if you omit mime type in the link you will get by default HTML representation:

Help

If you have questions please ask at the Developers Google Group or contact .

Source code

This project is hosted on GitHub.