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Create a Data Type

This receipt will show you how to create your first Data Type in a Data Type Registry. Together with Persistent Identifiers, which we deal with in another receipt, Data Types are a second essential ingredient of a FAIR Digital Object.

Ingredients

Work Steps

  1. Search data type registry for suitable data type
  2. Describe/model envisioned data type (offline)
    1. Decide on Data Type‘s level of detail
    2. DTR Inquiry
  3. Register data type(s) in data type registry
    1. Register new Child-Data Type(s)
    2. Register extended Child-Data Type(s)
    3. Register main Data Type