The Cancer Imaging Archive )TCIA) is a publisher of cancer related data. Each Collection is issued a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through DataCIte. DataCIte provides a REST API that can be used to search metadata according to their published schema.
DataCite REST API Guide - https://support.datacite.org/docs/api
DataCite Schema - http://schema.datacite.org
TCIA utilizes the following Properties of the DataCite schema.
| Table 1: DataCite Mandatory Properties ID | ||
| Property | Obligation | |
| 1 | Identifier (with mandatory type sub-property) | M |
| 2 | Creator (with optional given name, family name, name identifier and affiliation sub-properties) | M |
| 3 | Title (with optional type sub-properties) | M |
| 4 | Publisher | M |
| 5 | PublicationYear | M |
| 10 | ResourceType (with mandatory general type description sub-property) | M |
| Table 2: DataCite Recommended and Optional Properties ID | ||
| Property | Obligation | |
| 17 | Description (with type sub-property) | R |
Below is an example of how to retrieve a single DataCite record in JSON format. For this example we are using a Published Collection called "Pseudo-PHI-DICOM-Data"
# GET /dois