Eating your own dog food is a slang term to describe that an organization should itself use the products and services it provides. For DataCite this means that we should use DOIs with appropriate metadata and strategies for long-term preservation for the scholarly outputs we produce.
Authors DataCite Metadata Working Group, Joan Starr, Madeleine de Smaele, Jan Ashton, Amy Barton, Tina Bradford, Anne Ciolek-Figiel, Stefanie Dietiker, Jannean Elliot, Berrit Genat, Karoline Harzenetter, Barbara Hirschmann, Stefan Jakobsson, Jean-Yves Mailloux, Elizabeth Newbold, Lars Holm Nielsen, Mohamed Yahia, Frauke Ziedorn
1 Introduction
1.1 The DataCite Consortium
1.2 DataCite Community Participation
1.3 The Metadata Schema
1.4 Version 4.0 Update
2 DataCite Metadata Properties
2.1 Overview
2.2 Citation
2.3 DataCite Properties
3 XML Example
4 XML Schema
5 Other DataCite Services
Appendices
Appendix 1: Controlled List Definitions
Appendix 2: Earlier Version Update Notes
