DataCite Linked Data Publication Namespace

This repository publishes the TIB-maintained DataCite linked-data vocabulary bundle for GitHub Pages.

• Canonical persistent namespace: https://w3id.org/tib/datacite/
• GitHub Pages backend: https://tibhannover.github.io/datacite/
• Source toolkit: TIBHannover/datacite-metadata-toolkit

The files in this repository are generated publication artifacts. Make vocabulary source changes in the toolkit, regenerate the production namespace bundle there, then copy the generated bundle into this repository.

Directory Layout

class/       RDF class definitions
property/    RDF property definitions
vocab/       SKOS concept schemes and controlled terms
context/     JSON-LD contexts
manifest/    Versioned inventories and release matrix files
dist/        Bundled JSON-LD, Turtle, RDF/XML, and OWL distributions

Each section also includes an index.html page for browsing through GitHub Pages.

License

The generated vocabulary and publication artifacts in this repository are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0). See LICENSE.

The source toolkit used to generate these artifacts is maintained separately in TIBHannover/datacite-metadata-toolkit; its code and tooling are licensed as Apache-2.0.

Regeneration Workflow

From the source toolkit checkout:

git switch w3id/prep
npm run build:production-namespace

Then copy the generated contents of production-namespace/ to this repository root and validate:

find . -type f | wc -l
rg -n --glob '!README.md' "schema\\.stage\\.datacite\\.org|schema\\.datacite\\.org/linked-data|datacite//|Linked Data \\(Staging\\)" .

The rg command should return no matches.

Publishing Checklist

1. Commit the generated files in this repository.
2. Push to TIBHannover/datacite.
3. Enable GitHub Pages for the repository's main branch.
4. Confirm that https://tibhannover.github.io/datacite/ serves the bundle.
5. Add or update the corresponding perma-id/w3id.org redirect rules for https://w3id.org/tib/datacite/.