I wanted to ask for help to learn the basics of XML.
I need to deposit metadata related to 400 proceedings in the past I’ve done big deposits like this manually, but I’m pretty sure there’s a better way to do so!
I don’t know much about XML, but I believe I can learn it if I have the right resources
My biggest doubt is how can I generate the XML documents with the right format.
Could someone help me with that or suggest some good resources to help me learn?
Thanks for your message, and welcome to the community forum. Yes, 400 conference papers would be a lot to key into the web deposit form, as @BrunaErlandsson points out. Generating your own XML would be preferable.
We don’t have a tutorial like that. Generating XML is pretty complicated and typically requires some programming experience.
There isn’t any prefabricated script that will transform a csv file into valid Crossref xml. We experimented with building one some years ago, but it just produced too much data loss.
That said, we know there are members who have written their own scripts to convert csv to xml. The reason those can work is that the members know exactly how they organize their own metadata in csv format, and more importantly, they only use a single content type, and a very minimal subset of all possible metadata elements. The schema is too complicated for a ‘one size fits all approach’, but it can work if you’re only supply the bare minimum metadata.
But in general, help with creating xml is beyond the scope of what we can offer.
If there are other members on the forum who have had experience successfully writing a csv-to-xml conversion for their own use, or otherwise picking up xml skills, we’d love to hear their input!
I do conversions/mappings/transformation of metadata professionally for a large number of companies.
We do already create XML for content registration.
If you are interested please check https://onixtools.de
Hi! I am new here and I need to re-register already existing DOIs. I have still their xml files, but I wonder if I can upload them directly or if I need to make changes in them.
I saw the examples you mention for conference papers, but I would be more interested by xml files for articles.
Could you please indicate me where I could get examples of such “simple” xml?
Thank you in advance!
thanks for the link. What I miss there are samples of chapter registration XML.
i know that those are close to books but I can’t find anything which explains the differences or shows a chapter registration in itself.
Can you help?
Thanks
Herbert
Thank you very much for your reply, sure it will help!
I have a doubt that concerns keywords associated with scientific articles: I don’t see any mention of keywords in the xml files whereas for sure they should be somewhere as in science the research of articles is mainly on the basis of keywords. Do you have some idea?
Just recognized that your link on the metadata quality check page is not working in
" To use other versions of the schema simply replace the 4.3.3 accordingly. Schema details are available in Crossref Help."
Thank you for your reply. I don’t understand, if keywords are absent from metadata, by which mechanism a research based on some keywords, can lead to find an article. Is it through words contained in the title?
Or does it exist somewhere a possibility to attach keywords to the article ?
I was wondering how long it takes to create the DOI after you submit the XML file? I just submitted a file with 2 DOIs (I am complete beginner to XML) and am unsure if it was successful. Thank you for any information you can provide!
Great question! We’re processing very few submissions in the queue right now - that’s pretty typical for Friday at this time. We’d process an XML file with two DOIs in it in less than a minute right now. That is, assuming that the XML is formatted correctly.
What are the DOIs in question so I can check on the submission?
in the past I’ve done big deposits like this manually, but I’m pretty sure there’s a better way to do so!
