Create and manage DOIs using the DataCite API

NOTE: This repository has been moved to python-hzb-datacite.

This package provides a command line script to mint and manage DataCite DOIs using the DataCite REST API.

System requirements

Python:

• Python 3.11 or newer.

Required library packages:

• setuptools
• keyring
• lxml
• Requests

Optional library packages:

• git-props

  This package is used to extract some metadata such as the version number out of git, the version control system. All releases embed that metadata in the distribution. So this package is only needed to build out of the plain development source tree as cloned from GitHub, but not to build a release distribution.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2019–2026 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this package except in compliance with the License.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.