Use the CLI¶

The package registers cwl2datacite as a Transpiler-Mate plugin. Convert a CWL document with:

transpiler-mate cwl2datacite SOURCE --output datacite.json

SOURCE is the CWL document whose metadata should be converted. The command writes DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 JSON to the path given by --output.

Select an output path¶

The default output is datacite.json in the current directory. To write to a different location, pass a path to --output:

transpiler-mate cwl2datacite workflow.cwl --output build/metadata.json

Missing parent directories are created automatically.

View command help¶

transpiler-mate cwl2datacite --help

The plugin currently targets DataCite 4.6 only. Do not use the generated JSON as evidence of compatibility with another DataCite schema version without a separate conversion or validation step.