The DataCite Ontology is an ontology written in OWL 2 DL to enable the metadata properties of the [DataCite Metadata Kernel Specification version 3.1](https://www.datacite.org/sites/default/files/document/DataCite-MetadataSchema_V31_Final_8-24-2015_0.pdf) to be described in RDF. This version of the DataCite Ontology has been completely revised and significantly expanded to permit accurate mapping of this new version of the DataCite Metadata Kernel Specification to RDF.
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The DataCite Ontology
The DataCite Ontology (DataCite) is an ontology that enables the metadata properties of the DataCite Metadata Schema Specification (i.e., a list of metadata properties for the accurate and consistent identification of a resource for citation and retrieval purposes) to be described in RDF. **URL:** http://purl.org/spar/datacite **Creators**: [David Shotton](http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5506-523X), [Silvio Peroni](http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0530-4305) **Contributors:** [Amy J. Barton](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2184-3723), [Egbert Gramsbergen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/egbertgramsbergen/), [Jan Ashton](https://www.bl.uk/people/experts/janet-ashton), [Marie-Christine Jacquemot](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6316-1472) **License:** [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) **Website:** http://www.sparontologies.net/ontologies/datacite
This property allows one to specify the list of the creators of a certain resource.
has creator list
An object property permitting specification of an entity used to describe a resource.
has description
An object property permitting specification of the type of description used to describe a resource, defined as an individual of the class datacite:DescriptionType from the DataCite controlled list of Abstract, SeriesInformation, TableOfContent and Other.
has description type
An object property permitting specification of the general type of a resource, defined from the DataCite controlled list, namely: * dcmitype:MovingImage; * dcmitype:Collection; * dcmitype:Dataset; * dcmitype:Event; * dcmitype:dcmitype:StillImage; * dcmitype:InteractiveResource; * fabio:Model; * dcmitype:PhysicalObject; * dcmitype:Service; * dcmitype:Software; * dcmitype:Sound; * dcmitype:Text; * fabio:Workflow; * frbr:Endeavour. All the prefixes used here refer to external ontologies, i.e., DC Metadata Terms (dcmitype: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/), FaBiO (fabio: http://purl.org/spar/fabio/), and FRBR (frbr: http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#).
has general resource type
An object property specifying a datacite:Identifier that provides a unique identifer for the entity (either a funder, a person or a resource).
has identifier
An object property permitting specification of the identifier scheme used to provide the identifier for an entity – either a funder, a person or a resource – defined as an individual of the class datacite:IdentifierScheme.
uses identifier scheme
The link between a metadata document and the scheme followed for creating metadata.
uses metadata scheme
An identifier that uniquely identities an individual agent, belonging to a particular identifier scheme specified by an individual within the class datacite:AgentIdentifierScheme (or any of its subclasses).
agent identifier
The identifier scheme used to identify an agent. Individual schemes are defines as members of its sub-classes.
agent identifier scheme
An identifier other than a DOI that is used as an alternative identifier to uniquely identifies the primary resource that is the subject of the DataCite metadata record, belonging to a particular scheme such as ISBN specified by an individual that is a member of the class datacite:ResourceIdentifierScheme.
alternate resource identifier
This class permits classification of the type of description given to a resource described by the DataCite Metadata schema. Individual members of the class conform to the five values allowed in the DataCite controlled list, namely: * abstract; * methods; * series-information; * table-of-content; * other.
description type
An identifier that uniquely identities a funding agency, belonging to a particular scheme such as FundRef specified by an individual within the class datacite:FunderIdentifierScheme.
funder identifier
The identifier scheme used to identify a funding agency. Individual schemes are defines as members of this class. At present, the only individual of this class is datacite:fundref.
funder identifier scheme
An identifier that uniquely identities an entity – such as a funding agency, a person and a resource – belonging to a particular scheme such as those specified by individuals of the class datacite:IdentifierScheme.
identifier
The identifier scheme used to identify an entity such as a funding agency, a person or a resource. Individual schemes are defines as members of this class.
identifier scheme
The class that describe metadata schemes used for creating a metadata document referring to a certain resource. Neither a class for metadata documents nor a property linking a resource to its metadata document are not explicitly defined in this ontology. However, we recommend to use the class fabio:MetadataDocument (from http://purl.org/spar/fabio) and cito:citesAsMetadataDocument (from http://purl.org/spar/cito) for providing such descriptions. An example of use of such entities is shown as follows: :my-resource cito:citesAsMetadataDocument :my-resource-metadata . :my-resource-metadata a fabio:MetadataDocument ; datacite:usesMetadataScheme datacite:spar . In addition, if needed, it is possible to use the dataproperty fabio:hasURL (not included in this ontology as well) for defining the actual URL of a certain metadata scheme.
metadata scheme
An identifier that uniquely identities an individual organization, belonging to a particular identifier scheme such as ISNI specified by an individual within the class datacite:OrganizationIdentifierScheme.
organization identifier
The identifier scheme used to identify an organization. Individual schemes are defines as members of this class.
organization identifier scheme
An identifier that uniquely identities an individual person, belonging to a particular identifier scheme such as ORCID specified by an individual within the class datacite:PersonalIdentifierScheme.
personal identifier
The identifier scheme used to identify a person. Individual schemes are defines as members of this class.
personal identifier scheme
An identifier that is used as the primary identifier to uniquely identifies the primary resource that is the subject of the DataCite metadata record. Within the DataCite metadata record, a Digital Object Identifier is the only permitted primary resource identifier scheme, specified by the individual datacite:doi, that is a member of the class datacite:ResourceIdentifierScheme.
primary resource identifier
An identifier that is used to uniquely identifies a resource.
resource identifier
The identifier scheme used to identify a resource. Individual schemes are defines as members of this class. For DataCite, the only permitted identifier scheme for the primary resource identifier is the Digital Object Identifier.
resource identifier scheme
A brief summary of a textual work, appearing at the beginning of the work and designed to act as the point-of-entry that will help the reader quickly to obtain an overview of the work's contents.
abstract
ACM Digital Library author ID, which is resolvable using the following URL: https://dl.acm.org/profile/<identifier>.
acm
Archival Resource Key.
ark
Identifier for ArXiv (http://arxiv.org/), a open access repository of preprints, having the format arXiv:1207.2147.
arxiv
The Bibliographic Code (bibcode) is a 19 ASCII characters identifier which describes a journal article. The format was originally adopted by the SIMBAD and NED projects, and follows the syntax "YYYYJJJJJVVVVMPPPPA", where: * YYYY: Year of publication * JJJJJ: A standard abbreviation for the journal (e.g. ApJ, AJ, MNRAS, Sci, PASP, etc.). A list of abbreviations is available. * VVVV: The volume number (for a serial) or an abbreviation that specifies what type of publication it is (e.g. conf for conference proceedings, meet for Meeting proceedings, book for a book, coll for colloquium proceedings, proc for any other type of proceedings). * M: Qualifier for publication: * E: Electronic Abstract (usually a counter, not a page number) * L: Letter * P: Pink page * Q-Z: Unduplicating character for identical codes * PPPP: Page number. Note that for page numbers greater than 9999, the page number is continued in the m column. * A: The first letter of the last name of the first author.
bibcode
Crossref member identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://api.crossref.org/members/<identifier>.
crossref
DBLP author identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://dblp.org/pid/<identifier>.
dblp
DBLP publication identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://dblp.org/rec/<identifier>.
dblp record
The Digital Author Identification system assigns a unique number to all authors in the Netherlands research system.
dia
DNB catalogue number, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://d-nb.info/<identifier>.
dnb
Digital Object Identier
doi
International Article Number
ean13
Electronic International Standard Serial Number
eissn
FundRef is a collaborative pilot project of scholarly publishers and funding agencies, facilitated by CrossRef, to provide a standard way of identifying and reporting funding sources for published scholarly research.
fundref
GEPRIS person identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/<identifier>.
gepris
GitHub username, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://github.com/<identifier>.
github
The identifier for GitLab Users.
GitLab user account
Gemeinsame Normdatei identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://d-nb.info/gnd/<identifier>.
gnd
Google Scholar author identifier, which resolvable from the following URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=<identifier>.
google scholar
The Handle system
handle
IEEE Xplore author ID, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/<identifier>.
ieee
Info URI scheme
infouri
International Standard Book Number
isbn
International Standard Name Identifier scheme.
isni
International Standard Serial Number
issn
International Standard Text Code
istc
The IVOA identifier (ivoid) is the identifier of resources within the resource registry (datasets, data access services, etc.) maintained by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). These identifiers are RFC 3986-compliant URIs with a scheme of ivo. Thus, their generic form is: ivo://<authority><path>?<query>#<fragment>.
Japanese Science and Technology Agency identifier scheme
jst
Lattes Platform number, which is resolvable from the following URL: http://lattes.cnpq.br/<identifier>.
lattes
LinkedIn personal profile identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/<identifier>.
linkedin
Linking International Standard Serial Number
lissn
Library of Congress authority identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/<identifier>.
loc
A funder identifier scheme that provides local funder identifiers that are unique in their local environment and understood by the person submitting the metadata.
local funder identifier scheme
An organization identifier scheme that provides local organization identifiers that are unique in their local environment and understood by the person submitting the metadata.
local organization identifier scheme
A personal identifier scheme that provides local personal identifiers that are unique in their local environment and understood by the person submitting the metadata.
local personal identifier scheme
A resource identifier scheme that provides local resource identifiers that are unique in their local environment and understood by the person submitting the metadata.
local resource identifier scheme
Life Science Identifier
lsid
Mathematics Genealogy Project identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=<identifier>.
math genealogy
A description in a research paper documenting the specialized methods used in the work described.
methods
United Kingdom National Insurance Number scheme.
national insurance number
NIH Manuscript Submission Identifier
nihmsid
National Individual Identifier scheme.
nii
The Open Citation Identifier (OCI) is a persistent identifier for bibliographic citations, created and maintained by OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net).
oci
OCLC control number, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/<identifier>.
oclc
The OpenCitations Meta Identifier (OMID) is a persistent identifier for bibliographic resources, created and maintained by OpenCitations (http://opencitations.net). The OMID has structure [[entity_type_abbreviation]]/[[supplier_prefix]][[sequential_number]] (e.g. "br/0601", where "br" is the entity type, "060" is the supplier prefix, and "1" is the sequential number).
The primary key for all entities included in OpenAlex. The OpenAlex ID has two parts. The first part is the base, that is always https://openalex.org/. The second part is the key, i.e. the unique primary key that identifies a given resource in our database. The key starts with a letter that tells us the kind of entity: W(ork), A(uthor), V(enue), I(nstitution), or C(oncept). In addition, the IDs are not case-sensitive, so w2741809807 is just as valid as W2741809807.
OpenAlex ID
The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) is service that lists open access repositories, and uses numerical internal identifiers to store their record.
OpenID is an open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner, eliminating the need for centralized registration services.
openid
Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier.
orcid
A catch-all description type required by the DataCite Metadata Schema to characterize description types that are not abstracts, series information or tables of content.
other
Pulisher Item Identifier scheme.
pii
PubMed Central Identifier
pmcid
PubMed Identifier
pmid
Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
purl
RePEc Short identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://authors.repec.org/pro/<identifier>.
repec
ResearchGate profile identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/<identifier>.
research gate
ResearcherID is an identifying system for scientific authors created and owned by Thomson Reuters.
researcherid
The Research Organization Registry Community identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://ror.org/<identifier>.
ror
The identifier used for referring to entities in the Springer Nature SciGraph dataset.
SciGraph ID
Used to charactierize a description of a resource that is part of a series.
series information
Serial Item and Contribution Identifier
sici
United States of America social security number scheme
social security number
The Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies, a.k.a. SPAR Ontologies, form a suite of orthogonal and complementary OWL 2 DL ontology modules for the creation of comprehensive machine-readable RDF metadata for every aspect of semantic publishing and referencing: document description, bibliographic resource identifiers, types of citations and related contexts, bibliographic references, document parts and status, agents' roles and contributions, bibliometric data and workflow processes.
SPAR Ontologies
The SPASE resource identifier (spase) is the identifier of resources included in the resource registry (datasets, instruments, observatories, etc) maintained by the Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) group. Such identifiers are RFC 3986-compliant URIs with a scheme of spase, and only implementing the authority and path parts of the specification. Thus, their generic form is: spase://<authority><path>.
A table of content giving information about the content of a resource, appearing before the body text. Where the resource is a journal or magazine issue, the table of content lists the constituent items contained in that issue, typically by title, authors and first page number.
table of content
Twitter handle, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://twitter.com/<identifier>.
Universal Product Code
upc
uri
Uniform Resource Locator.
url
Uniform Resource Name.
urn
The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file created by amalagamating the national authority files of several national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). It contains information about many topics including personal names.
viaf
The W3id.org identifier is a secure, permanent URL re-direction service for Web applications, run by the W3C Permanent Identifier Community Group. It has the shape of a URL starting with "https://w3id.org/" plus a local identifier that completes it (e.g. "https://w3id.org/changes").
Wikidata QID, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/<identifier>.
Wikipedia page name, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<identifier>.
wikipedia
zbMATH author identifier, which is resolvable from the following URL: https://zbmath.org/authors/?q=ai:<identifier>.
zbmath