metadata.alternateIdentifier.present

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Description

Verify that an alternate identifier associated with the metadata has been specified. This check is similar to metadata.identifier.present, but for an alternate identifier, not the primary one.

Priority

Choose a priority for the FAIR suite (Required or Optional)

• FAIR: Optional
• ESSDIVE: Required

Issues

• The EML schema clearly specifies the alternate identifier, but it's not clear (to me) what this is for ISO, schema.org, DataCite, so these have to be determined before this check can be included in the FAIR suite.
• ESS-DIVE may use this check, possibly in a suite version after 1.1.0
• related issues:
  • Quality Report Check: Existing DOI and Alternate Identifier
  • metadata.identifier.resolvable, metadata.identifier.present

Procedure

• check if a metadata alternate identifier is present, if not then the check fails