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ISO 26324 asks a DOI Registration Agency to produce a Kernel Metadata Declaration for every DOI it issues. Give any DOI: its public record becomes a record in the Smart Scholars DOI Metadata Format 1.0, checked against every rule, and declared as the Kernel XML.

Reads the DOI's public Crossref record; nothing is stored. Until Smart Scholars is accredited, every Declaration is marked as a draft in the XML itself.

✓ Meets every rule of the format

The record below is complete and every controlled value is a DOI Attribute Value Set 2.3 spelling. The Declaration on the right follows DOIMetadataKernel.xsd element by element.

What the DOI identifies

PLS Modeling in Order to Satisfaction Criteria Selection ofBusSystem(CaseStudy:BusSystemof Zanjan

10.46243/jst.2022.v7.i03.pp113-121 · JournalArticle — an article in a journal · Digital · Visual · Language · en

Published 2022-05-25

Part of Journal of Science & Technology · ISSN 2456-5660 · vol. 7 · no. 3 · pp. 113–121

Principal agents

  • Mr. S. Kiran Kumar Mr. S. Kiran Kumar (author → Author)
  • Longman Publishers (publisher → Publisher)

Also in the record, outside the Kernel: the abstract, the licence, 4 links, 30 references. Source: Crossref (member 25296), registered 2024-02-16, last deposited 2026-09-17.

⬇ Record (JSON) ⬇ Declaration (XML)

System metadata — ISO 26324:2025, Annex B · DOI Handbook 10.1

Each element by the standard's name and the Handbook's (in grey), read off the record.

DOI Name
DOI name
10.46243/jst.2022.v7.i03.pp113-121
Referent Type
referentType
Creation
Referent Sub-Type
referentSubType
JournalArticle — an article in a journal
Referent Name(s)
referentName(s)
PLS Modeling in Order to Satisfaction Criteria Selection ofBusSystem(CaseStudy:BusSystemof Zanjan (PrincipalTitle, en)
Basic Metadata
basicMetadata
author: Mr. S. Kiran Kumar Mr. S. Kiran Kumar
publisher: Longman Publishers
published: 2022-05-25
part of: Journal of Science & Technology · ISSN 2456-5660 · vol. 7 · no. 3 · pp. 113–121
language: en
form: Digital · Visual · Language
Referent Identifier(s)
alternateIdentifier(s)
none besides the DOI
Registration Authority
registrationAuthorityCode
Crossref — issued by Crossref (member 25296); held here as a copy
Created Date
issueDate
2024-02-16
relatedIdentifiersnone needed — the descriptive metadata is in this record

The record

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        "value": "The term \"quality of service\" refers to how well a company meets its customers' needs. Increasing the number of people who own cars requires careful evaluation and enhancement of the quality of bus service. Since customer happiness is directly tied to service quality, study ing its com ponents is crucial. According to previous research, the following six factors are prioritized by citizens: journey time, convenience, accessibili ty, pricing, comfort, information, and safety. Indicators of service quality in the Zanjan, Iran, bus system were modeled for this study. The most crucial elements of consumer satisfaction were thus determined by these metrics. Empirical study was conducted by surveying actual travelers, with the resulting data analyz ed with Smart PLS. It's important to remember th at in the end, a model was created to ascertain consumer satisfaction with the aforementioned characteristics (quality indica tors), with the largest weights going to security, comfort, speed, and ease of use. In addition, 59% of users were pleased with this system",
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The Kernel Metadata Declaration

DOIMetadataKernel.xsd · namespace http://www.doi.org/2010/DOISchema · Attribute Value Sets 2.3 · draft — the agency's DOI name is filled in on accreditation

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