Repository metadata consistency with RDA recommendations

[mbjones]

The RDA Data Repository Attributes working group is proposing repository metadata attributes to be used in describing repositories (see their Draft Version 5), and these overlap with the ESIP science-on-schema.org guidelines for repository metadata. I did a little crosswalk to see how consistent they are, and I worked up a document for the Arctic Data Center that illustrates usage.

Here's a comparison table of how the ESIP and RDA field lists correspond.

number	label	schema_mapping	esip_recommended	rda_recommended
1	Repository Name	schema:name	TRUE	TRUE
2	URL	schema:url	TRUE	TRUE
3	Country	schema:addressCountry		TRUE
4	Language	schema:inLanguage		TRUE
5	Institution	schema:parentOrganization	TRUE	TRUE
6	Contact	schema:contactPoint	TRUE	TRUE
7	Description	schema:description	TRUE	TRUE
8	Research Area	schema:category	TRUE	TRUE
9	Persistent Identifiers	ex:persistentIdentifiers		TRUE
10	Machine Interoperability	ex:machineInteroperability		TRUE
11	Metadata	ex:metadata		TRUE
12	Curation	ex:curation		TRUE
13	Terms of Deposit	schema:termsOfService		TRUE
14	Terms of Access	ex:termsOfAccess		TRUE
15	Dataset Use License	schema:license		TRUE
16	Certification	schema:credentialCategory		TRUE
17	Preservation Policy	ex:preservationPolicy		TRUE
18	Repository Legal Name	schema:legalName	TRUE
19	Repository Alternate Name	schema:alternateName
20	Repository Logo URL	schema:logo	TRUE
21	Repository Linked Identifier	@id	TRUE
22	Repository Persistent Identifier	schema:identifier	TRUE
23	Repository Equivalent Identifier	schema:sameAs	TRUE
24	Repository Service Provider	schema:provider	TRUE
25	Founding Date	schema:foundingDate	TRUE
26	Funder	schema:funder	TRUE
27	Repository Catalog	schema:hasOfferCatalog	TRUE
28	Repository Address	schema:address	TRUE

And here's a schema.org document for the Arctic Data Center with a union of both sets of fields.

Expand for arctic-data-center.json metadata

{
  "@context": [
    "https://schema.org/",
    {
        "ex": "https://example.org/"
    }
  ],
  "@type": [
    "Service",
    "Organization",
    "ResearchProject"
  ],
  "@id": "https://arcticdata.io",
  "name": "Arctic Data Center",
  "legalName": "Arctic Data Center",
  "alternateName": "ADC",
  "logo": "https://arcticdata.io/wp-content/themes/aurora/library/images/logo_.png",
  "url": "https://arcticdata.io",
  "description": "The Arctic Data Center is the primary data and software repository for the Arctic section of NSF Polar Programs.",
  "identifier": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "ROR:055hrh286",
      "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/ror",
      "value": "ror:055hrh286",
      "url": "https://ror.org/055hrh286"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Re3data DOI: 10.17616/R37P98",
      "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
      "value": "doi:10.17616/R37P98",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.17616/R37P98"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "wikidata:Q77285095",
      "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/wikidata",
      "value": "wikidata:Q77285095",
      "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77285095"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "grid:grid.507882.0",
      "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/grid",
      "value": "grid:grid.507882.0",
      "url": "https://www.grid.ac/institutes/grid.507882.0"
    }
  ],
  "sameAs": [
    "https://ror.org/055hrh286",
    "https://www.grid.ac/institutes/grid.507882.0",
    "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77285095",
    "https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011973",
    "http://doi.org/10.17616/R37P98",
    "urn:node:ARCTIC"
  ],
  "category": [
    "Arctic Research"
  ],
  "provider": {
    "@id": "https://arcticdata.io"
  },
  "contactPoint": {
    "@type": "ContactPoint",
    "name": "Support",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "https://arcticdata.io/support/",
    "contactType": "customer support"
  },
  "foundingDate": "2016-02-01",
  "funder": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "@id": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000087",
    "legalName": "Office of Polar Programs",
    "alternateName": "OPP",
    "url": "https://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=OPP",
    "identifier": {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
      "value": "doi:10.13039/100000087",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000087"
    },
    "parentOrganization": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "@id": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000085",
      "legalName": "Directorate for Geosciences",
      "alternateName": "NSF-GEO",
      "url": "http://www.nsf.gov",
      "identifier": {
        "@type": "PropertyValue",
        "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
        "value": "10.13039/100000085",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000085"
      },
      "parentOrganization": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "@id": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001",
        "legalName": "National Science Foundation",
        "alternateName": "NSF",
        "url": "http://www.nsf.gov",
        "identifier": {
          "@type": "PropertyValue",
          "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
          "value": "10.13039/100000001",
          "url": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "hasOfferCatalog": {
    "@type": "OfferCatalog",
    "name": "Arctic Data Center Data Catalog",
    "itemListElement": [
      {
        "@type": "DataCatalog",
        "@id": "https://arcticdata.io/catalog/data",
        "name": "Arctic Data Center Catalog",
        "audience": {
          "@type": "Audience",
          "audienceType": "public",
          "name": "General Public"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "1021 Anacapa Street",
    "addressLocality": "Santa Barbara",
    "addressRegion": "CA",
    "postalCode": "93101",
    "addressCountry": "US"
  },
  "parentOrganization": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "@id": "https://ror.org/0146z4r19",
    "legalName": "National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis",
    "alternateName": "NCEAS",
    "url": "http://nceas.ucsb.edu",
    "identifier": {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/ror",
      "value": "ror:0146z4r19",
      "url": "https://ror.org/0146z4r19"
    },
    "parentOrganization": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "@id": "https://ror.org/02t274463",
      "legalName": "University of California, Santa Barbara",
      "alternateName": "UCSB",
      "url": "http://ucsb.edu",
      "identifier": {
        "@type": "PropertyValue",
        "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/ror",
        "value": "ror:02t274463",
        "url": "https://ror.org/02t274463"
      }
    }
  },
  "inLanguage": "en-US",
  "addressCountry": "US",
  "license": [
    "http://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0",
    "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0"
  ],
  "credentialCategory": "CoreTrustSeal",
  "termsOfService": [
    "http://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0",
    "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0"
  ],
  "ex:persistentIdentifiers": [
    "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
    "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/orcid",
    "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/ror",
    "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/rrid",
    "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/d1id",
    "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/ark"
  ],
  "ex:machineInteroperability": [
    "DataONE", "OAI-PMH", "DataCite", "REST", "SPARQL"
  ],
  "ex:metadata": [
    "EML", "ISO-19115", "DDI", "Dublin Core", "FGDC CSDGM", "METS", "DataCite", "OAI-ORE", "other"
  ],
  "ex:curation": "https://arcticdata.io/submit/",
  "ex:preservationPolicy": "https://arcticdata.io/preservation/",
  "ex:termsOfAccess": [
    "http://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0",
    "https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0"
  ]
}

Note that I didn't have good mappings for the following terms, which I placed in the example namespace (ex) for now:

• ex:persistentIdentifiers
• ex:machineInteroperability
• ex:metadata
• ex:curation
• ex:preservationPolicy
• ex:termsOfAccess

Thoughts on whether we should make any changes to be consistent?