This page is for Internet2 staff reference. The repository librarian will perform these tasks.
Crossref provides a nice web interface for submitting reports and white papers, which are most of T&I's content, but it doesn't support submission of policies, working group charters, etc. that do not fall into that category. Crossref has a metadata XML schema for such "Posted Content," but the web UI does not support it yet. This document discusses how to submit metadata for both types of documents.
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- Create an XML file containing the metadata for the Posted Content document. posted-content-template.xml is provided by Crossref. TI.1.1.xml and TI.53.1.xml are examples for T&I documents; it's probably easiest to make a copy of one of those and edit it for your new document. You probably want to use a schema-validating XML editor to avoid syntactic and semantic errors (Crossref recommends Oxygen or XmlSpy), but a normal text editor can also be used.
- Authors/contributors can be either people or organizations (e.g., a working group). TI.53.1.xml has examples of both <person_name> and <organization>.
- The sequence attribute for <person_name> and <organization> (first or additional) is important. Don't leave it out. (First would be the lead author.)
- If you have no known contributors, remove the <contributors> element entirely. Sequence is, of course, not important in this case.
- <doi_batch_id> and <timestamp> aren't part of the metadata, but they must increase if you need to resubmit the metadata. Note that the examples encode the current date/time, including seconds, in those values.
- <depositor_name> and <registrant> should be Internet2.
- <email_address> should be your address; it's where success/fail and other notifications about your submission will be sent.
- <group_title> should be Internet2 Trust and Identity Policy. I think we can invent any group titles we want, but I figure it's probably best to lump it all together for now.
- <title> is the document's title.
- <posted_date> is the document's publish date. You must provide at least <year>. If you do not provide <month> or <day>, remove them entirely (including the XML tags).
- <doi> is the DOI you're creating. It's 10.26869/ followed by the Repository ID, (e.g., 10.26869/TI.53.1).
- <resource> is the URL of the T&I repository metadata page for the document.
- Test your XML file using Crossref's XML parser. This will not guarantee a successful submission, but it does weed out many problems before you try to submit.
- Submit your XML files at http://doi.crossref.org/; the file type is Metadata. The process is described in Uploading files using an interface.
- Edit the document's T&I metadata page to add the DOI (
10.26869/
followed by the Repository ID) and Persistent URL (http://doi.org/
followed by the DOI). - Watch your mail to see when the submission has been processed (usually less than a minute but can be longer). Assuming success, test the DOI by clicking on the document's Persistent URL from the repository index page.