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Contributor > Registration Agency

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Registration Agency  

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  • Institution/organisation officially appointed by a Registration Authority to handle specific tasks within a defined area of responsibility. DataCite is a Registration Agency for the International DOI Foundation (IDF). One of DataCite’s tasks is to assign DOI prefixes to the allocating agents who then assign the full, specific character string to data clients, provide metadata back to the DataCite registry, etc.

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https://vocabs.ccmm.cz/registry/codelist/AgentRole/Contributor/RegistrationAgency

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