3. Contact Person (O)

datacite:contributor

Information on the person responsible for providing further information regarding the resource

3.1 type (M)

The type of the contributor (occurrences: 1).

3.2 contributorName (M)

The name of the contact person. Use inverted name, so the syntax will be the following: “surname”, “initials” (“first name”) “prefix”.

3.3 givenName (R)

The personal or first name of the author.

3.4 familyName (R)

The surname or last name of the author.

3.5 nameIdentifier (R)

Uniquely identifies an individual or legal entity, according to various schemes.

3.5.1 nameIdentifierScheme (R)

The name of the name identifier scheme.

3.5.2 schemeURI (O)

The URI of the name identifier scheme.

3.5.3 affiliation (O)

The organizational or institutional affiliation of the contributor.

Usage Instruction

This element is used for providing information about the contact person for the researcdh product. The contributorType must be set to the datacite term “ContactPerson”. The information about the given name and family name for the contact person can be specified in the fields givenName and familyName

Example

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<contributor contributorType="ContactPerson">
  <contributorName>Doe, John</contributorName>
</contributor>