Application Profile Overview

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:

• dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/

• datacite: http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4

• oaire: http://namespace.openaire.eu/schema/oaire/

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	name type contributor type
Funding Reference (MA)	oaire:fundingReference	funderIdentifier type
Alternate Identifier (R)	datacite:alternateIdentifier	alternateIdentifier type	RDA-F1-02M
Related Identifier (R)	datacite:relatedIdentifier	relatedIdentifier type relation type resourcetype general	RDA-I3-01M RDA-I3-02M RDA-I3-03M RDA-I3-04M
Embargo Period Date (MA)	datacite:date	date type
Language (MA)	datacite:language	IETF BCP 47, ISO 639-3
Publisher (MA)	datacite:publisher
Publication Date (M)	datacite:date	date type
Resource Type (M)	oaire:resourceType	COAR Resource Type Vocabulary
Description (MA)	datacite:description
Format (R)	datacite: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
dci:source	datacite: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
dci:coverage	datacite:coverage	date type
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:

<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">