Application Profile OverviewΒΆ

The properties of the Application Profile for OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Archives are listed in this section. The following requirement levels for the metadata properties are used:

Mandatory (M)
The property must always be present in the metadata. An empty value for the property is not allowed.
Mandatory if Applicable (MA)
When the property value can be obtained it must be present in the metadata
Recommended (R)
The use of the property is recommended
Recommended than Mandatory (RtM)
If the recommend element is used, then this is Mandatory.
Optional (O)
It is not important whether the property is used or not, but if used it may provide complementary information about the resource
Optional than Mandatory (OtM)
If the optional element is used, then this is Mandatory.

This documentation uses the following namespace abbreviations:

OpenAIRE-Field Metadata Element Refinement by Vocabulary
Title (M, 1-n) datacite:title title type
Creator (M, 1-n) datacite:creator name type
Contributor (MA, 0-n) datacite:contributor
name type
contributor type
Publication Date (M, 1) datacite:date date type
Publication Year (M, 1) datacite:date date type
Publisher (MA, 0-n) datacite:publisher  
Subject (MA, 0-n) datacite:subject  
Description (MA, 0-n) datacite:description  
Language (MA, 0-n) datacite:language Allowed values are taken from IETF BCP 47, ISO 639-1 language codes. Examples: en, de, fr
Identifier (M, 1) datacite:identifier identifier type
Alternative Identifier (R, 0-n) datacite:alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifier type
Related Identifier (MA, 0-n) datacite:relatedIdentifier
relatedIdentifier type
relation type
resourcetype general
Resource Type (M, 1) datacite:resourceType `COAR Resource Type Vocabulary`_
Access Rights (M, 1) datacite:rights `COAR Access Right Vocabulary`_
dci:size datacite:size  
Resource Version (O, 0-1) datacite:version `COAR Version Vocabulary`_
dci:geolocation datacite:geoLocation  
Funding Reference (MA, 0-n) datacite:fundingReference funderIdentifier type

The application profile is implemented in XML Schema.

Not listed elements from DataCite schema v4.3 could be used as further optional (O) elements.