NAME

mdtools

SYNOPSIS

mdtools OPTIONS normalize|validate|verify ID_TYPE IDENTIFIER

DESCRIPTION

mdtools 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
• EMAIL (email address, verification unavailable)
• ISBN
• ISSN
• ISNI
• LCNAF
• ORCID
• PMID
• PMCID
• ROR
• SNAC
• TEL (telphone number, verification unavailable)
• UUID (NOTE: verification unavailable)
• VIAF

NOTE: for identifier types with unavailable varification they will return the text “undefined” and exit code of 3.

OPTIONS

-h, –help

display help

-l, –license

display license

-v, –version

display version

EXAMPLE

mdtools used to normalize, validate and verify an ORCID.

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