New Term - projectID

[aaltenburger2]

taken from #527

• Submitter: Andreas Altenburger

• Efficacy Justification (why is this term necessary?): I work at a university museum that publishes its collections on GBIF as datasets. We constantly receive requests from contributors to the museum collection, asking to be able to track "their" contributions at the record level on GBIF. This relates to private funders such as Ocean Census (https://oceancensus.org/) or the Mohn Foundation (https://mohnfoundation.no/), governmental funding from Artsdatabanken or the Research Council of Norway, and institutional internal funding. We need to be able to attribute the specimens to their respective projects and funders.

• Demand Justification (name at least two organizations that independently need this term): Record-level attribution has been requested several times previously. See discussions
  Project Information - Darwin Core Hour Input Form 2/14/2017 11:46:27 dwc-qa#37
  tracking funding source for projects at occurrence record level dwc-qa#83
  serving datasetID for some, not all records dwc-qa#100
  ProjectIDs on individual records, rather than a dataset as a whole gbif/pipelines#836
  Option to add several projects in the Project data metadata page gbif/ipt#1780
  for more details.

• Stability Justification (what concerns are there that this might affect existing implementations?): New terms for record-level attribution are unlikely to negatively impact existing implementations because these terms would be additional, optional fields that enhance the granularity of data attribution without altering existing data structures.

• Implications for dwciri: namespace (does this change affect a dwciri term version)?: The introduction of the proposed new term does not necessitate changes to existing dwciri term versions. The new terms would be added as properties within the Darwin Core namespace but would not alter the definitions or functionalities of existing dwciri terms.

Proposed attributes of the new term:

• Term name (in lowerCamelCase for properties, UpperCamelCase for classes): projectID
• Term label (English, not normative): Project ID
• Organized in Class (e.g., Occurrence, Event, Location, Taxon): Event
• Definition of the term (normative): A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers for projects that contributed to a dwc:Event.
• Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc., not normative): A projectID can be may be shared in multiple
  distinct datasets. The nature of the association can be described in the metadata project description element. This term should be used to provide a globally unique identifier (GUID) for a project, if available. This could be a DOI, URI, or any other persistent identifier that ensures a project can be uniquely distinguished from others. The recommended best practice is to separate the values in a list with space vertical bar space ( | ).
• Examples (not normative): RCN276730; RCN276730 | Artsproject_7-24; OC202405; https://arvenetternansen.com/; https://doi.org/10.3030/101180559;
• Refines (identifier of the broader term this term refines; normative): none
• Replaces (identifier of the existing term that would be deprecated and replaced by this term; normative): none
• ABCD 2.06 (XPATH of the equivalent term in ABCD or EFG; not normative): /DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Gathering/Project/

[dshorthouse]

Examples would be best separated by ( | ) instead of semi-colons.

[aaltenburger2]

Thank you for the feedback. I would separate the projectIDs with a "|" when there are several for one occurrence. The examples are meant to show different projectIDs for different occurrences; hence, the semicolons. I have updated the text with an example showing two projectIDs to make this clearer.

[mnhn-paul]

maybe some actual DOIs or URIs in the examples would be useful for the documentation.

[aaltenburger2]

The research council of Norway does not provide DOIs or URIs for research projects. Do you have an example from another national research council who does that? One example could be https://arvenetternansen.com/ which I assume is a stable identifier.

[qgroom]

The EU provide DOIs for research projects through their CORDIS platform. Though it is never really clear to me whether this DOI identifies the project or the description of the project.
Here is an example
https://doi.org/10.3030/101180559

[sharifX]

There is also RAiD (https://raid.org/what-is-raid) : 'Research Activity Identifier' which will be a DOI based identifier. The metadata schema supports nested activities as well (using a property called relatedObject https://metadata.raid.org/en/latest/core/relatedObjects.html). RAiD can be included as one of the examples.

[aaltenburger2]

Examples have been updated as proposed. @sharifX Do you have a RAiD that is currently being used for a research project and could serve as an example?

[sharifX]

The RAiD implementation is still in beta mode. But here's one example: https://doi.org/10.26259/3b15eca7.
Within Europe the FAIRCORE4EOSC project is also working on an implementation: https://faircore4eosc.eu/eosc-core-components/research-activity-identifier-service-raid