The software shall be capable of accepting a request to update DOI metadata.

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Design Details

• Input: DOI Metadata Object, force_flag (available in the event we want to overwrite a record)

• General steps for updates:

  1. Verify the input DOI Metadata is valid
  2. Verify DOI from DOI Metadata Object is in current system.
     a. Failure: Return error that DOI does not exist
     b. Success: continue
  3. Optionally, check DOI+Node:
     a. if force flag is true, verify DOI+Node from DOI Metadata Object match a currently existing DOI+Node combination in the system.
     i. Failure: Return error with expected DOI +Node combination
     ii. Success: Continue
     b. If force flag is false, continue.
  4. Insert data into database (NOTE: database should be keeping transaction record for DOIs)
  5. Submit updated metadata to OSTI.
  6. Return submission response to user
  7. Continue to verify update status with OSTI and notify user (see Develop DOI Status / Query component #27).

• Outputs:
  TBD

Flow Diagram

TBD