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.
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Audiovisual">Video recording</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: MovingImage
Award
Description: An umbrella term for resources provided to individual(s) or organization(s) in support of research, academic output, or training, such as a specific instance of funding, grant, investment, sponsorship, scholarship, recognition, or non-monetary materials.
Examples and Usage Notes:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Award">Grant</resourceType>
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Award">Facility use</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: N/A
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:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Book">Textbook</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
BookChapter
Description: One of the main divisions of a book.
Examples and Usage Notes:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="BookChapter"/>
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
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Collection">Collection of datasets</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Collection
ComputationalNotebook
Description: A virtual notebook environment used for literate programming.
Examples and Usage Notes:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="ComputationalNotebook">Jupyter notebook</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:
<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:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="ConferenceProceeding"/>
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
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="DataPaper"/>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Dataset
Description: Data encoded in a defined structure.
Examples and Usage Notes: Data file or files
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Survey data</resourceType>
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:
<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
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Event">Conference</resourceType>
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
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Image">Photograph</resourceType>
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.
<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
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="InteractiveResource"/>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: InteractiveResource
Journal
Description: A scholarly publication consisting of articles that is published regularly throughout the year.
Examples and Usage Notes:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Journal"/>
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:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="JournalArticle"/>
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
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Model">3D model</resourceType>
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.
<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:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="PeerReview"/>
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.
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="PhysicalObject">Individual Sample</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: PhysicalObject
Poster
Description: A display poster, typically containing text with illustrative figures and/or tables, usually reporting research results or proposing hypotheses, submitted for acceptance to and/or presented at a conference, seminar, symposium, workshop or similar event.
Examples and Usage Notes:
Posters may be physical or digital.
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Poster">Conference poster</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: N/A
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:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Preprint">Research paper</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Text
Presentation
Description: A set of slides containing text, tables or figures, designed to communicate ideas or research results, for viewing by an audience at a conference, symposium, seminar, lecture, workshop or other event.
Examples and Usage Notes:
For a video recording of a presentation, use “Audiovisual”.
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Presentation">Conference presentation slides</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: N/A
Project
Description: A planned endeavor or activity, frequently collaborative, intended to achieve a particular aim using allocated resources such as budget, time, and expertise.
Examples and Usage Notes: This resource type represents the project and includes research projects and studies. For a project deliverable or description of a project, use the corresponding resource type for the output—e.g., for a project report, dissertation, or study registration, use the resourceTypeGeneral “Report”, “Dissertation”, or “StudyRegistration” instead.
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Project">Field season</resourceType>
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Project">Cohort study</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: N/A
Report
Description: A document that presents information in an organized format for a specific audience and purpose.
Examples and Usage Notes:
<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
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Service"/>
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
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Software">Simulation tool</resourceType>
Suggested Dublin Core Mapping: Software
Sound
Description: A resource primarily intended to be heard.
Examples and Usage Notes: Audio recording
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Sound">Music</resourceType>
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:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Standard"/>
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.
<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:
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Text">Correspondence</resourceType>
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.
<resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Workflow"/>Protocol</resourceType>
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