Request for comment: New relationType pair "IsOutputOf"/"HasOutput"

[KellyStathis]

The DataCite Metadata Schema includes a controlled vocabulary for relationship types—relationType—to connect related research outputs and resources. We are looking to expand this vocabulary to cover use cases where one research object is an output of another.

These include:

1. Connecting awards/grants to their associated outputs, such as papers, datasets, and software.
2. Connecting research projects to their associated outputs, such as papers, datasets, and software.
3. Connecting software to its associated output, e.g. when data is produced by a simulation or transformed by software.
   • See the discussion here for more information: relationType to link Dataset processed/transformed by Software #198

Proposed new relationType: HasOutput

Term: HasOutput

Definition: indicates A has an output B

Example and Usage Notes:
May be used to connect awards, projects, and software to their associated outputs.

<relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="HasOutput" resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">10.21384/828a-cm38</relatedIdentifier>

Proposed new relationType: IsOutputOf

Term: IsOutputOf

Definition: indicates A is an output of B

Example and Usage Notes:
May be used to connect the outputs of awards, projects, and software to their sources.

<relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="IsOutputOf" resourceTypeGeneral="Project">10.21384/g01j-jm06</relatedIdentifier>

Providing feedback

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[adambuttrick]

This would be very useful for CDL in both our awards registration work, as well as for capturing the relationship between enrichment datasets and the models and software that were used to produce in the context of our work on COMET.

[mlangseth]

I could see this being useful for connecting software and datasets. I think we have been using IsDerivedFrom and IsSourceOf for those relations, but IsOutputOf and HasOutput seems like it would make more sense. Might be good for documentation to help folks understand when to use one pair versus the other.

[motyc]

I see it as usefull for the project <> physical object relation used for IGSNs (in our case - archaeological projects and artefacts, where we currently use rather imprecise IsPartOf).