give files a resourceTypeGeneral of "Other" instead of "Dataset" for the DataCite PID provider

[pdurbin]

What this PR does / why we need it:

Data files are not datasets. For now, we are going to send DataCite "resourceTypeGeneral=Other" for data files instead of "Dataset". Longer term, we plan to work in DataCite to come up with a better term than "Other" for data files. There is discussion in the following thread about that:

• Add resourceTypeGeneral for dataset files datacite/datacite-suggestions#214

Which issue(s) this PR closes:

• Closes Feature Request: When Dataverse managers register DOIs for files, tell Dataverse to create the DataCite export where resourceType is "Other" instead of "Dataset" #12476

Special notes for your reviewer:

I added a line to the docs at https://dataverse-guide--12713.org.readthedocs.build/en/12713/installation/config.html#filepidsenabled about "Other" and a line to the following issue for more context:

• resourceTypeGeneral for dataset files #5086

While I was in there, I noticed the nearby curl commands have extra `` around them. I'm happy to fix this. Please let me know.

I left a comment about the upgrade step.

There's no way to see the file-level DataCite XML via API. Perhaps we should add one. For now, I added the ability to log this XML.

Suggestions on how to test this:

• Enable file PIDS: curl -X PUT -d 'true' http://localhost:8080/api/admin/settings/:FilePIDsEnabled
• For your PID provider, use DataCite test settings (see below)
• Create a dataset, upload a file
• Log into DataCite Fabrica Test at https://doi.test.datacite.org and make sure the file you uploaded shows "Other" rather than "Dataset". See the before and after screenshots below.
• Also from Fabrica Test, in the DataCite XML for the file, you can look for <resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Other"/> as in the screenshot below.
• You can also increase logging to see the log message below.

Before

After

Suggested settings

-Ddataverse.pid.providers=dc1
-Ddataverse.pid.default-provider=dc1
-Ddataverse.pid.dc1.type=datacite
-Ddataverse.pid.dc1.label=DataCite
-Ddataverse.pid.dc1.authority=10.70122
-Ddataverse.pid.dc1.shoulder=FK2/
-Ddataverse.pid.dc1.datacite.mds-api-url=https://mds.test.datacite.org
-Ddataverse.pid.dc1.datacite.rest-api-url=https://api.test.datacite.org
-Ddataverse.pid.dc1.datacite.username=REDACTED
-Ddataverse.pid.dc1.datacite.password=REDACTED

Logging (if turned up from fine to info):

[#|2026-09-22T19:40:38.816+0000|INFO|Payara 7.2026.8|edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.pidproviders.doi.datacite.DataCiteRESTfullClient|_ThreadID=322;_ThreadName=__ejb-thread-pool15;_TimeMillis=1790106038816;_LevelValue=800;|
  XML to send to DataCite:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resource xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.7/metadata.xsd">
  <identifier identifierType="DOI">10.70122/FK2/Y1HL8A/UL8WS3</identifier>
  <creators>
    <creator>
      <creatorName nameType="Personal">Admin, Dataverse</creatorName>
      <givenName>Dataverse</givenName>
      <familyName>Admin</familyName>
      <affiliation>Dataverse.org</affiliation>
    </creator>
  </creators>
  <titles>
    <title>wolf.jpeg</title>
  </titles>
  <publisher>Root</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2026</publicationYear>
  <dates>
    <date dateType="Available">2026-09-22</date>
  </dates>
  <resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Other"/>
  <relatedIdentifiers>
    <relatedIdentifier relationType="IsPartOf" relatedIdentifierType="DOI">10.70122/FK2/Y1HL8A</relatedIdentifier>
  </relatedIdentifiers>
  <sizes>
    <size>23846</size>
  </sizes>
  <formats>
    <format>image/jpeg</format>
  </formats>
  <version>2.0</version>
  <rightsList>
    <rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess"/>
    <rights rightsURI="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0" rightsIdentifier="CC0-1.0" rightsIdentifierScheme="SPDX" schemeURI="https://spdx.org/licenses/" xml:lang="en">Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.</rights>
  </rightsList>
</resource>
|#]

Does this PR introduce a user interface change? If mockups are available, please link/include them here:

No.

Is there a release notes update needed for this change?:

Yes, included.

Additional documentation:

None.

[coveralls]

coverage: 25.524% (+0.09%) from 25.438% — 12476-files-as-other into develop

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Test Results

406 tests  ±0   391 ✅ ±0   31m 16s ⏱️ + 9m 21s
 55 suites ±0    15 💤 ±0 
 55 files   ±0     0 ❌ ±0 

Results for commit 1e83394. ± Comparison against base commit ee8bf0b.

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[pdurbin]

If people prefer the following version from https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.5 I'm happy to switch to it:

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate failed

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