Figshare Public Metadata until 02/12/2014

This dataset contains metadata of publicly available items on figshare up until (excluding) 2 December 2014. The data was retrieved via the figshare API (http://api.figshare.com). The format is one item per line, encoded with JSON.

There are two files in this dataset:

1. basic-metadata.json contains basic metadata for all publicly available items on figshare up until (excluding) 2 December 2014 (n=1,092,808 items). The data was retrieved using a wildcard search (see http://api.figshare.com/docs/howto.html#q-search for details).

Basic metadata fields are:
* article_id
* title
* DOI
* description
* type
* defined_type
* published_date
* modified_date
* url
* authors
* links
* page_nr: The page the item is returned on in the search results.

2. full-metadata-datasets-filesets-unique-doi.json contains extended metadata for all items of defined_type "dataset" or "fileset" with a unique DOI (n=266,961 items). The data was retrieved using the listing functionality (see http://api.figshare.com/docs/howto.html#q-listing for details).

Extended metadata fields are:
* article_id
* title
* doi
* description
* defined_type
* published_date
* url
* authors
* links
* figshare_url
* views
* downloads
* shares
* publisher_doi
* publisher_citation
* master_publisher_id
* status
* version
* total_size
* owner
* tags
* categories
* files