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OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers based on Dublin Core and DataCite Metadata Kernel
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resourceTypeGeneral attribute : 'other research product' versus 'literature' #43

Open mhvezina opened 1 year ago

mhvezina commented 1 year ago

Hi,

What mandatory resourceTypeGeneral attribute for the resourceType element should be apply to thesis? (https://openaire-guidelines-for-literature-repository-managers.readthedocs.io/en/v4.0.0/field_publicationtype.html#attribute-resourcetypegeneral-m)?

master thesis or master thesis My understanding is that the OpenAire OAI-PMH crosswalk for Dspace associates, from the default submission form, the type "Thesis" (https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/main/dspace/config/submission-forms.xml#L1468) to the "other research product" value for the resourceTypeGeneral attribute of the resourceType element (https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/main/dspace/config/crosswalks/oai/metadataFormats/oai_openaire.xsl#L1375-L1408). This other crosswalk (https://bazaar.eprints.org/1199/1/plugins/EPrints/Plugin/Export/OPENAIRE.pm) however, for Eprints respositories, seems to apply the 'literature' value for the resourceTypeGeneral attribute to all included document types (hence including thesis) except datasets. And more generally, where can I find more information about the meaning/scope of these attribute values? The Application profile (OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature, institutional, and thematic Repositories (4.0.0)) only lists 4 values (https://openaire-guidelines-for-literature-repository-managers.readthedocs.io/en/v4.0.0/field_publicationtype.html#attribute-resourcetypegeneral-m). If 'dataset' and 'software' speak for themselves, exactly what should be included/covered by 'other research product' versus 'literature'? Thank you.
ACz-UniBi commented 1 year ago

Dear @mhvezina ,

thank you for your question. On your first question:

What mandatory resourceTypeGeneral attribute for the resourceType element should be apply to thesis?

<oaire:resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="literature" uri="http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_46ec">thesis</oaire:resourceType>

The URI attribute have the value from the vocabulary, dedicated values available for 'bachelor', 'master', and 'doctoral' thesis.

Thesis are literature which discuss research perspectives.

The vocabulary that OpenAIRE use and support is the ResourceType vocabulary from Confederation of Open Access Repositories and could found at https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/ .

And thank you again, I'll take a look to the mentioned source code at DSpace and EPrints.

mhvezina commented 1 year ago

Thank you @ACz-UniBi for your answer.

I'll make sure to use the 'literature' value for our IR thesis then. I'm somehow familial with the COAR vocabulary for institutional repositories but, to my knowledge, it doesn't mention the controlled list values that the OpenAire resourceTypeGeneral attribute (literature, dataset, software, other research product) uses for resourceType. Hence, within COAR vocabulary, a more broader term for thesis would be "text" (http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text) and not"'literature" as seen on this page : https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/ I am still wondering where do those 4 values come from, and what exactly should be understood as 'other research product'.

ACz-UniBi commented 1 year ago

Dear @mhvezina ,

OpenAIRE provides all used vocabulary via https://api.openaire.eu . The specific vocabulary about the four main categories is found at: https://api.openaire.eu/vocabularies/dnet:result_typologies and for literature(aka publication) at https://api.openaire.eu/vocabularies/dnet:result_typologies/publication .

Currently, a fresh discussion with librarians has been started to get an updated perspective on "thesis". What is your opinion on the thesis material?

Best regards, Andreas