Custom resource types

[phette23]

https://inveniordm.docs.cern.ch/customize/vocabularies/resource_types/

https://discord.com/channels/692989811736182844/724974365451747329/1065248477505929246

Part of this (maybe a blocking sub-issue?) is deciding what our resource types will be. Invenio resource types don't seem to imply a whole lot, they do not come with their own sets of metadata fields.

[phette23]

Resource Types are the most prominent search filter. Subtype filters appear nested under their parent. RTs do not provide custom fields based on their values (but we should research implementing this with custom fields). The various props of a RT are all for metadata crosswalks/citations under an item's Export menu.

Invenio's defaults (these are loaded if you do not specify your own): https://github.com/inveniosoftware/invenio-rdm-records/blob/master/invenio_rdm_records/fixtures/data/vocabularies/resource_types.yaml

• dataset
• event
• image
• image-diagram
• image-drawing
• image-figure
• image-other
• image-photo
• image-plot
• lesson
• model
• other
• poster
• presentation
• publication
• publication-annotationcollection
• publication-article
• publication-book
• publication-conferencepaper
• publication-conferenceproceeding
• publication-datamanagementplan
• publication-datapaper
• publication-deliverable
• publication-dissertation
• publication-journal
• publication-milestone
• publication-other
• publication-patent
• publication-peerreview
• publication-preprint
• publication-proposal
• publication-report
• publication-section
• publication-softwaredocumentation
• publication-standard
• publication-taxonomictreatment
• publication-technicalnote
• publication-thesis
• publication-workingpaper
• software
• software-computationalnotebook
• video

The quantity of work types in VAULT, as measured by the values of metadata fields local/courseWorkType, local/workType, local/courseWorkTypeSpecific is staggering. We probably cannot support that many. What does CCA need?

• [ ] publication: similar to image, which if any subtypes should we include?
  • [ ] look at CCA/C archives, what types of documents exist there
• [x] theses: thesis parent type with children for bachelor's and master's? we could make the parent type have no tags which prevents it from showing up on the deposit form but retains it as a search facet
• [x] image: Invenio provides many subtypes of image (diagram, drawing, photo...) but I feel like these distinctions cause more confusion than they're worth
• [x] video: we store most videos in Panopto now though? But need a longer term solution

Questions / other possibilities:

• [ ] course work? What about selecting the form (e.g. image, doc) of the course work? Do we need a course work facet and is it only achieved via this or could we use something else? could course works be defined as works submitted to academic program communities & if so could we retrieve all of them easily?
• [x] event: we have exhibitions & other events but will it be used properly?
• [x] other: I like the idea of providing a fallback
• [ ] software: I've published a few items that would fall under this and Games or other programs might use it

[phette23]

We want more subtypes of publication and image, won't use software. Undecided about a "Course Work" type (because it would overlap with all the other types) so we may need to do a trial run.