ESDIS DOI Process

The DOI registration process has three basic phases.

Create DOI Landing Page

The DOI URL references a landing page.  The landing page should have enough information such that upon arrival, the user knows they have reached the source of the product and can gain access to it.  The key guidelines include a summary description of the product, access to download the data product, and all of the other citation information about the product.

Assign DOIs

A data provider requesting DOIs for various data products from ESDIS must provide a minimal subset of metadata for each data product for review.  Once the metadata is reviewed and validated (1-3 days), ESDIS will reserve a unique DOI for the product.

Register DOIs

When the data provider has submitted all the DOI metadata required by ESDIS, and EZID, including the accessible landing page describing the data product, then ESDIS will register those DOIs with EZID.  If all metadata except the product landing page are available, ESDIS can reserved those DOIs until the landing page is ready and then the DOI will be registered.  All DOIs, registered or reserved, are listed by project here on the ECE.

The ESDIS DOI Registration Process is explained in more detail in the diagram below.

ESDIS has recently upgraded the DOI registration system from a manually-driven to one that largely automates the DOI process.  The new automated feature include: a) reviewing the DOI metadata, b) assigning of opaque DOI name if data provider chooses,  c) reserving, d) registering, and e) updating the DOI information.  The flexibility of reserving the DOI allows data providers to embed and test the DOI in the data product metadata before formally registering with EZID. The DOI update process allows the changing of any DOI metadata except the DOI name unless the name has not been registered.

To submit DOIs for registration for EOSDIS supported projects, contact Nate James (nathan.l.james@nasa.gov) and Lalit Wanchoo (lalit.wanchoo-1@nasa.gov).