Book Section data from datacite dois

wonderpup · February 26, 2025

Kia ora!

I'm helping publish a few books and I'm manually (through the datacite API) setting up the metadata in datacite so each chapter has a DOI.

I'm setting up the parent book as a relatedItem, and when I use the DOI lookup in Zotero the title of the parent book comes through fine. The problem is the book editors are not. If I set them up as creators, they come through as authors. If I set them up as contributors, with editor as the type, they come through as "contributors".

I don't have much choice in our registration agency, and I'm thinking that crossref may have a richer metadata schema for this, but ... I have what I have.

If this is anything like other queries I've posted I'm missing something obvious.

The DOI of one of the items I'm working on is 10.26021/15688

adamsmith · February 27, 2025

So we're looking at Steven Ratuva for that DOI, yes? I think there's just a typo in the import code that should be trivial to fix; it's supposed to get editors already (but as you note there aren't many examples of book chapters in Datacite, comparatively speaking, so no one had reported the bug so far)

wonderpup · February 27, 2025

Yep: Steve is the Editor in that case. Thank you!

wonderpup · 2025-08-27T02:48:31+00:00

Kia ora - I'm adding more book chapters to datacite, and the other contributors are still not coming through. this is a weird one though because it is _like_ an edited book, but its a report with sections with different author groups.

Main report: https://doi.org/10.26021/16013
Sub report: https://doi.org/10.18124/yy55-2v89

I've set the subreport up as type 'book chapter', in case that is hardcoded. The XML in datacite fabrica shows 'published in', but their own citation generator doesn't seem to like it.

adamsmith · 2025-08-27T03:11:47+00:00

Note that both of those DOIs are broken -- the links don't work. But they do have metadata in Datacite, but I'm only seeing six authors, no editors in the metadata, so that's a problem with how you're registering them, not Zotero's import:

https://api.datacite.org/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+json/10.26021/16013
https://api.datacite.org/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+json/10.18124/yy55-2v89