NAME

mtd

SYNOPSIS

mtd OPTIONS normalize|validate|verify ID_TYPE IDENTIFIER

DESCRIPTION

mtd will normalize, validate or verify the identifier provided based on the type provided. Validate and verify it will return the text ‘true’ or ‘false’ and set an error level. Normalize will return the normalized string.

NOTE: verify requires network access.

ID_TYPE

The following identifier types are supported (type name are case insensitive).

• ArXiv
• DOI
• ISBN
• ISSN
• ISNI
• ORCID
• PMID
• PMCID
• ROR
• LCNAF
• VIAF
• SNAC

OPTIONS

help

display help

license

display license

version

display version

EXAMPLE

mtd used to normalize, validate and verify an ORCID.

mtd normalize orcid 0000-0003-0900-6903
mtd validate orcid 0000-0003-0900-6903
mtd verify orcid 0000-0003-0900-6903