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Short Title
4. The persistent identifier must be embedded in the landing page in machine-readable format.
Source Documnent
A data citation roadmap for scholarly data repositories
Source Document Link
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0031-8
Publishing Organisation
FORCE11.org and BioCADDIE Data Citation implementation Pilot Repositories Expert Group
Date of Publication
2021-04-10
Topic
Discovery/ indexing/ search, Interlinking/ interoperability, Machine-actionability
Addressed Stakeholders
data service providers
Keywords
PID, identifier, landing page, machine-actionability, embedding
Text
To verify that a persistent identifier resolves to a correct landing page, the persistent identifier must be embedded in the landing page in human-readable and machine-readable formats. This enables checks that the persistent identifier properly resolves to a landing page describing that iden- tifier, and enables basic data citation by reference managers, and minimal validation by the publisher of persistent identifiers cited in documents. The persistent identifier should be found somewhere on the landing page, but is ideally embedded in schema.org markup and/or using HTML meta tags. Example schema.org/JSON-LD: