resourceTypeGeneral
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Audiovisual
Description: A series of visual representations imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession. May or may not include sound.
Examples and Usage Notes: May be used for films, video, etc.
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.17608/k6.auckland.4620790.v1
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: MovingImage
Book
Description: A medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Book">Textbook</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
BookChapter
Description: One of the main divisions of a book.
Examples and Usage Notes:
https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.17613/m6631d
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Collection
Description: An aggregation of resources, which may encompass collections of one resourceType as well as those of mixed types. A collection is described as a group; its parts may also be separately described.
Examples and Usage Notes: A collection of samples, or various files making up a report
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.1594/pangaea.877589
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Collection
ComputationalNotebook
Description: A virtual notebook environment used for literate programming.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="ComputationalNotebook">Jupyter</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: InteractiveResource
ConferencePaper
Description: Article that is written with the goal of being accepted to a conference.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="ConferencePaper">Experience Report</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
ConferenceProceeding
Description: Collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="ConferenceProceeding">Annual Convention</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
DataPaper
Description: A factual and objective publication with a focused intent to identify and describe specific data, sets of data, or data collections to facilitate discoverability.
Examples and Usage Notes: A data paper describes data provenance and methodologies used in the gathering, processing, organizing, and representing the data
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.17912/w2mw2d
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Dataset
Description: Data encoded in a defined structure.
Examples and Usage Notes: Data file or files
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.1594/pangaea.804876
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Dataset
Dissertation
Description: A written essay, treatise, or thesis, especially one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dissertation">PhD thesis</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Event
Description: A non-persistent, time-based occurrence.
Examples and Usage Notes: Descriptive information and/or content that is the basis for discovery of the purpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event such as a webcast or convention
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.7269/p3rn35sz
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Event
Image
Description: A visual representation other than text.
Examples and Usage Notes: Digitised or born digital images, drawings or photographs
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.6083/m4qn65c5
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Image
Instrument
Description: A device, tool or apparatus used to obtain, measure and/or analyze data.
Examples and Usage Notes: Note that this is meant to be the instrument instance, e.g., the individual physical device, not the digital description or design of an instrument.
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Instrument">Reflectometer</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: N/A
InteractiveResource
Description: A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced.
Examples and Usage Notes: Training modules, files that require use of a viewer (e.g., Flash), or query/response portals
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.7269/p3tb14tr
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: InteractiveResource
Journal
Description: A scholarly publication consisting of articles that is published regularly throughout the year.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Journal"></resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
JournalArticle
Description: A written composition on a topic of interest, which forms a separate part of a journal.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="JournalArticle"></resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Model
Description: An abstract, conceptual, graphical, mathematical or visualization model that represents empirical objects, phenomena, or physical processes.
Examples and Usage Notes: Modelled descriptions of, for example, different aspects of languages or a molecular biology reaction chain
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: N/A
OutputManagementPlan
Description: A formal document that outlines how research outputs are to be handled both during a research project and after the project is completed.
Examples and Usage Notes: Includes data, software, and materials.
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="OutputManagementPlan">Data Management Plan</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
PeerReview
Description: Evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field.
Examples and Usage Notes: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.6084/m9.figshare.5742270
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="PeerReview">Scientific Article</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
PhysicalObject
Description: A physical object or substance.
Examples and Usage Notes: Artifacts, specimens, material samples, and features-of-interest of any size. Note that digital representations of physical objects should use one of the other resourceTypeGeneral values.
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.7299/X78052RB
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: PhysicalObject
Preprint
Description: A version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Preprint">Research Paper</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Report
Description: A document that presents information in an organized format for a specific audience and purpose.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Report">Annual Report</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Service
Description: An organized system of apparatus, appliances, staff, etc., for supplying some function(s) required by end users.
Examples and Usage Notes: Data management service, or long-term preservation service
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.21938/3I01ISNUCODNH1ZJBCVUWA
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Service
Software
Description: A computer program other than a computational notebook, in either source code (text) or compiled form. Use this type for general software components supporting scholarly research. Use the “ComputationalNotebook” value for virtual notebooks.
Examples and Usage Notes: Software supporting scholarly research
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.4225/03/5954F738EE5AA
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Software
Sound
Description: A resource primarily intended to be heard.
Examples and Usage Notes: Audio recording
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.7282/T3J67F05
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Sound
Standard
Description: Something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model, example, or point of reference.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Standard">Dublin Core</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
StudyRegistration
Description: A detailed, time-stamped description of a research plan, often openly shared in a registry or published in a journal before the study is conducted to lend accountability and transparency in the hypothesis generating and testing process.
Examples and Usage Notes: Includes pre-registrations, registered reports, and clinical trials. Study registrations are sometimes peer-reviewed and may include the hypothesis, expected results, study design, and/or analysis plan.
Example:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="StudyRegistration">Pre-registration</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Text
Description: A resource consisting primarily of words for reading that is not covered by any other textual resource type in this list.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Example: https://api.datacite.org/dois/application/vnd.datacite.datacite+xml/10.5682/9786065914018
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Workflow
Description: A structured series of steps which can be executed to produce a final outcome, allowing users a means to specify and enact their work in a more reproducible manner.
Examples and Usage Notes: Computational workflows involving sequential operations made on data by wrapped software and may be specified in a format belonging to a workflow management system, such as Taverna (http://www.taverna.org.uk/). 2
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: N/A
Other
Description: If selected, supply a value for ResourceType.
Examples and Usage Notes: —
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: —
Footnotes
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Where there is direct correspondence with the Dublin Core Metadata, DataCite definitions have borrowed liberally from the DCMI definitions. See: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/index.shtml
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An education module on workflows prepared by DataONE is available at http://www.dataone.org/sites/all/documents/L10_AnalysisWorkflows.pptx