Application Profile OverviewΒΆ

The properties of the Application Profile for OpenAIRE institutional and thematic Repository Guidelines 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
Optional (O)
It is not important whether the property is used or not, but if used it may provide complementary information about the resource

This documentation uses the following namespace abbreviations:

OpenAIRE-Field Metadata Element Refinement by Vocabulary FAIR
Title (M) datacite:title title type  
Creator (MA) datacite:creator name type
RDA-I3-01M
Contributor (MA) datacite:contributor  
Funding Reference (MA) oaire:fundingReference funderIdentifier type  
Alternate Identifier (R) datacite:alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifier type
RDA-F1-02M
Related Identifier (R) datacite:relatedIdentifier
RDA-I3-01M
RDA-I3-02M
RDA-I3-03M
RDA-I3-04M
Embargo Period Date (MA) datacite:date date type  
Language (MA) dc:language IETF BCP 47, ISO 639-3  
Publisher (MA) dc:publisher    
Publication Date (M) datacite:date date type  
Resource Type (M) oaire:resourceType COAR Resource Type Vocabulary  
Description (MA) dc:description    
Format (R) dc:format   RDA-I1-01D
Resource Identifier (M) datacite:identifier identifier type
RDA-F1-01M
RDA-F1-02M
RDA-A1.1-01D
Access Rights (M) datacite:rights COAR Access Right Vocabulary RDA-A1-01M
Source (R) dc:source    
Subject (MA) datacite:subject   RDA-I1-01M
License Condition (R) oaire:licenseCondition  
RDA-R1.1-01M
RDA-R1.1-02M
RDA-R1.1-03M
Coverage (R) dc:coverage    
Size (O) datacite:size    
Geo Location (O) datacite:geoLocation    
Resource Version (R) oaire:version COAR Version Vocabulary  
File Location (MA) oaire:file COAR Access Right Vocabulary RDA-F3-01M
Citation Title (R) oaire:citationTitle    
Citation Volume (R) oaire:citationVolume    
Citation Issue (R) oaire:citationIssue    
Citation Start Page (R) oaire:citationStartPage    
Citation End Page (R) oaire:citationEndPage    
Citation Edition (R) oaire:citationEdition    
Citation Conference Place (R) oaire:citationConferencePlace    
Citation Conference Date (R) oaire:citationConferenceDate    
Audience (O) dcterms:audience    

The application profile is implemented in XML Schema. The files for the application profile and sample XML files are part of these Guidelines and also available on the GitHub repository.

In the XML metadata documents the schema must be declared as follows:

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<oaire:resource xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
  xmlns:datacite="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4"
  xmlns:oaire="http://namespace.openaire.eu/schema/oaire/"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://namespace.openaire.eu/schema/oaire/ https://www.openaire.eu/schema/repo-lit/4.0/openaire.xsd">