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Overview
The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) is a publisher of cancer related data. Each Collection TCIA publishes is issued a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through DataCite so their contents become discoverable and associated metadata is made available to the community. DataCite provides a REST API that . This API can be used to search metadata according to their published schema. programmatically access Collection metadata such as their DOIs, titles and abstracts. Please note that this API was not developed by TCIA and is not supported through the TCIA help desk. Please refer to the Documentation below for how to use the DataCite REST API to query TCIA metadataTCIA. See https://support.datacite.org/ for any technical questions. The TCIA Helpdesk may be able to assist if your inquiry is related to the content of the data itself.
Official Datacite Documentation
- DataCite REST API - https://support.datacite.org/reference/introduction
- DataCite REST API Guide - https://support.datacite.org/docs/api
- DataCite Schema - http://schema.datacite.org
The Cancer Imaging Archive is identified within DataCite as
- prefix-id 10.7937
- client-id = sml.tcia
- provider-id = tciar
Properties
TCIA Metadata in Datacite
TCIA utilizes the following Properties of the DataCite schema.
Property ID | Property |
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1 | Identifier (DOI of the Dataset) |
2 | Creator (Authors of the Dataset, preferably with ORCIDID)) |
3 | Title (Published Title of the Dataset) |
4 | Publisher (The Cancer Imaging Archive) |
5 | PublicationYear (The Year the Dataset was published in TCIA) |
10 | ResourceType (Dataset; Equivalent to a TCIA Collection) |
11 * | AlternateIdentifier (TCIA "Short Name" for the Dataset. These short names appear in various places such as https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/collections/ and https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/tcia-analysis-results/) |
15 * | Version (The Current Version of the Dataset) |
16 * | Rights (Licensing Information) |
17 * | Description (Dataset Abstract) |
* indicates properties that are "Recommended and Optional" per the Datacite Schema whereas the others are required to create a DOI.
Examples
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For this example we are using a Published Collection called "Pseudo-PHI-DICOM-Data": |
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