Stream: troubleshooting

Topic: Draft DOI - recover record

view this post on Zulip Bethany Seeger (Mar 11 2026 at 15:50):

Hello,

We had a draft dataset with a DOI that accidentally got deleted. We have to have this record at that DOI when it's ready to be published. I realize we can't recover the dataset, but is there a way to make a new (draft) dataset with that DOI?

Thanks,
Bethany

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Mar 11 2026 at 15:57):

Others may have some more ideas, here's mine: maybe use the Migration API to create it? https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.9/developers/dataset-migration-api.html

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 11 2026 at 16:01):

Hmm, @Leo Andreev might have a better answer but you could always edit the database directly. The DOI is stored here: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.9/schemaspy/tables/dvobject.html

view this post on Zulip Bethany Seeger (Mar 11 2026 at 17:12):

Thanks for the ideas so far. I think we can "migrate" the a new record in.

view this post on Zulip Bethany Seeger (Mar 11 2026 at 17:13):

If we migrate one in, will I have to create the DOI myself in fabrica?

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 11 2026 at 17:14):

The DOI might already be in fabrica. I'm not sure of the state though, since you deleted the dataset.

view this post on Zulip Bethany Seeger (Mar 11 2026 at 20:25):

Thanks - the migration does seem to work. I had to recreate the draft doi in datacite, then migrate the dataset, then I'll update datacite again with the actual URL. I think that Dataverse will not steward this DOI with Datacite the way it does with others (which makes sense), but I think this will be good enough to solve my issue.

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 11 2026 at 20:42):

Phew! Should we have an API for this?!? :sweat_smile:

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