Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 15:54): Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 15:54):Hi everyone,
I have a question regarding PID management in Dataverse. Is it possible to migrate existing PIDs that were originally generated as permalinks (Handles) to DOIs using DataCite for datasets that are already published?
Could this process be handled using a similar approach to the existing API endpoint for minting DOIs on datasets with Handles, as mentioned in the docs:
https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.3/admin/dataverses-datasets.html#mint-a-new-doi-for-a-dataset-with-a-handle ?
Any guidance or best practices would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Juan
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 16:50):Hi Juan, yes, that looks like the right API endpoint. It should work. If it doesn't, please let us know!
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 17:01):Hi Philip, thanks for your response.
Just to clarify I meant to say "permalinks to DOIs". I'll go ahead and try the endpoint and let you know how it goes!
Thanks again for the help.
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 18:00):Oh, sorry, I thought you meant handles
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 18:00):You're on version 6.3?
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 18:21):Yes, we're currently on 6.3 but we're planning on upgrading to 6.8 next week
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 18:37):I'm looking at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/v6.3/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Admin.java#L1496 and it only works for Handles.
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 18:38):I seem to remember @Johannes D or @Vera Clemens asking about "promoting" PermaLinks to DOIs.
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 18:39):@Juan L贸pez please take a look at this: Feature Request/Idea: migrate published datasets from Permalink/FAKE PID provider to another provider聽#10497
Is that what you're asking for?
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 18:54):Yes Sir, that鈥檚 exactly what we need
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 18:55):Ha, well, I recommend leaving a comment on that issue and joining the discussion at #dev > changing collection PID provider
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 18:56):Or maybe @Johannes D or @Vera Clemens will join us here. :smile:
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 18:57):Did you see that @Johannes D already did some work in #10567 that landed in 6.7? Over at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.7 we wrote it up as "API for switching Datasets to DOIs, for example"
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 19:01):I'm looking at it right now, but it seems to only work for unpublished datasets that have permalinks
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 19:07):In this case, we鈥檙e referring to published datasets. Since this is a new Dataverse instance still under development, we still have the opportunity to deploy a new instance and start publishing datasets with the DataCite account properly configured from the beginning
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 19:08):Yeah, that sounds right. I don't think published datasets are supported
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 19:12):Or maybe, since this is still in development, would it be possible (and safe) to manipulate the database to revert all published dataset to an unpublished state and then mint the DOIs?
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 19:13):I don鈥檛 think this is a good idea, but I鈥檓 trying to find a way to avoid having the team re-upload all datasets again.
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 19:13):Oh, interesting.
Can you simply create new datasets that are equivalent to the published ones?
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 19:15):Yes, we could just set a new installation from scratch and start uploading all the datasets again.
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 19:20):Or...
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 30 2026 at 19:20):But whatever is easier, obviously!
Juan L贸pez (Mar 30 2026 at 19:24):Interesting! I'll talk about it with the team, thank you very much Philip!
Vera Clemens (Mar 31 2026 at 08:26):Philip Durbin 馃殌 said:
Did you see that Johannes D already did some work in #10567 that landed in 6.7? Over at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.7 we wrote it up as "API for switching Datasets to DOIs, for example"
Hi, yes, I can confirm that we are regularly using that API (https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html#reconcile-the-pid-of-a-dataset-if-multiple-pid-providers-are-enabled) to switch datasets from Permalinks to DOIs. But yes, it only works for unpublished datasets (at the moment). Maybe it could be extended to work for published datasets as well, if you're superuser, or something like that? We'd be open to creating a PR for that.
Johannes D (Mar 31 2026 at 08:28):Yeah, as a short term solution you could comment the safeguards in the method, compile your own version of dataverse, deploy it to production, conduct the migration and redeploy the official version. (We've also done that ;))
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 31 2026 at 11:41):interesting :smile:
Philip Durbin 馃殌 (Mar 31 2026 at 11:42):sure, we'd love a PR!
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