2025 June 17
Evolving the preprint evaluation world with Sciety
This post is based on an interview with Sciety team at eLife.
XSD schema quick reference
We support additional schema (not listed here) for legacy purposes.
Deposit schema
Used for registering and updating DOI metadata records:
| Schema | Purpose | Status | Further info |
|---|---|---|---|
| grant_id0.2.0.xsd | grant metadata | recommended | documentation |
| crossref5.4.0.xsd | full metadata deposits | recommended | documentation |
| crossref5.3.1.xsd | full metadata deposits | recommended | documentation |
| crossref4.8.1.xsd | full metadata deposits | recommended | documentation |
| AccessIndicators.xsd | license data | imported | |
| relations.xsd | relationships between DOIs and other identifiers | imported | |
| clinicaltrials.xsd | relationships between publications that report on a clinical trial | imported | |
| doi_resources4.4.2.xsd | used to append or update specific sets of metadata to an existing record | recommended | documentation |
Query schema
Used for formatting XML queries:
| Schema | Purpose | Further info |
|---|---|---|
| Crossref_query_input2.0.xsd | used to input XML queries to the system | documentation |
Metadata retrieval schema
Used for retrieving our metadata:
| Schema | Purpose | Further info |
|---|---|---|
| crossref_query_output2.0.xsd | returns query results in xsd_xml format, used for Cited-by results | documentation |
| crossref_query_output3.0.xsd | returns query results in UNIXSD format | documentation |
| unixref1.1.xsd | returns query results in the UNIXML format, also used to support the data delivered by our OAI-PMH service | documentation |
| unixref1.0.xsd | returns query results in the UNIXML format for some older content, also used to support the data delivered by our OAI-PMH service | documentation |
| crossref_output3.0.1.xsd | used to support data files generated for bulk data distribution | documentation |
| OAI-PMH.cr.xsd | accommodates differences between Crossref’s OAI-PMH implementation and the published Open Archives OAI 2.0 schema | documentation |