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Enum: ContributorRole

The type of contribution made by a contributor

URI: ContributorRole

Permissible Values

Value Meaning Description
DataCite:ContactPerson DataCite:ContactPerson Person with knowledge of how to access, troubleshoot, or otherwise field issu...
DataCite:DataCollector DataCite:DataCollector Person/institution responsible for finding, gathering/collecting data under t...
DataCite:DataCurator DataCite:DataCurator Person tasked with reviewing, enhancing, cleaning, or standardizing metadata ...
DataCite:DataManager DataCite:DataManager Person (or organisation with a staff of data managers, such as a data centre)...
DataCite:Distributor DataCite:Distributor Institution tasked with responsibility to generate/disseminate copies of the ...
DataCite:Editor DataCite:Editor A person who oversees the details related to the publication format of the re...
DataCite:HostingInstitution DataCite:HostingInstitution Typically, the organisation allowing the resource to be available on the inte...
DataCite:Producer DataCite:Producer Typically a person or organisation responsible for the artistry and form of a...
DataCite:ProjectLeader DataCite:ProjectLeader Person officially designated as head of project team or sub- project team ins...
DataCite:ProjectManager DataCite:ProjectManager Person officially designated as manager of a project
DataCite:ProjectMember DataCite:ProjectMember Person on the membership list of a designated project/project team
DataCite:RegistrationAgency DataCite:RegistrationAgency Institution/organisation officially appointed by a Registration Authority to ...
DataCite:RegistrationAuthority DataCite:RegistrationAuthority A standards-setting body from which Registration Agencies obtain official rec...
DataCite:RelatedPerson DataCite:RelatedPerson A person without a specifically defined role in the development of the resour...
DataCite:Researcher DataCite:Researcher A person involved in analyzing data or the results of an experiment or formal...
DataCite:ResearchGroup DataCite:ResearchGroup Typically refers to a group of individuals with a lab, department, or divisio...
DataCite:RightsHolder DataCite:RightsHolder Person or institution owning or managing property rights, including intellect...
DataCite:Sponsor DataCite:Sponsor Person or organisation that issued a contract or under the auspices of which ...
DataCite:Supervisor DataCite:Supervisor Designated administrator over one or more groups/teams working to produce a r...
DataCite:WorkPackageLeader DataCite:WorkPackageLeader A Work Package is a recognized data product, not all of which is included in ...
DataCite:Other DataCite:Other Any person or institution making a significant contribution to the developmen...
crcr:conceptualization crcr:conceptualization Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims
crcr:data-curation crcr:data-curation Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain...
crcr:formal-analysis crcr:formal-analysis Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal tech...
crcr:funding-acquisition crcr:funding-acquisition Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publicat...
crcr:investigation crcr:investigation Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the ...
crcr:methodology crcr:methodology Development or design of methodology; creation of models
crcr:project-administration crcr:project-administration Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning...
crcr:resources crcr:resources Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory sampl...
crcr:software crcr:software Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementatio...
crcr:supervision crcr:supervision Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning an...
crcr:validation crcr:validation Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall r...
crcr:visualization crcr:visualization Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically...
crcr:writing-original-draft crcr:writing-original-draft Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically...
crcr:writing-review-editing crcr:writing-review-editing Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from...

Slots

Name Description
contributor_roles List of roles played by the contributor when working on the resource

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://github.com/kbase/credit_engine/schema/kbase/linkml

LinkML Source

name: ContributorRole
description: The type of contribution made by a contributor
from_schema: https://github.com/kbase/credit_engine/schema/kbase/linkml
rank: 1000
enum_uri: roleName
permissible_values:
  DataCite:ContactPerson:
    text: DataCite:ContactPerson
    description: Person with knowledge of how to access, troubleshoot, or otherwise
      field issues related to the resource. May also be "Point of Contact" in organisation
      that controls access to the resource, if that organisation is different from
      Publisher, Distributor, Data Manager.
    meaning: DataCite:ContactPerson
    title: contact person
  DataCite:DataCollector:
    text: DataCite:DataCollector
    description: Person/institution responsible for finding, gathering/collecting
      data under the guidelines of the author(s) or Principal Investigator (PI). May
      also use when crediting survey conductors, interviewers, event or condition
      observers, person responsible for monitoring key instrument data.
    meaning: DataCite:DataCollector
    title: data collector
  DataCite:DataCurator:
    text: DataCite:DataCurator
    description: Person tasked with reviewing, enhancing, cleaning, or standardizing
      metadata and the associated data submitted for storage, use, and maintenance
      within a data centre or repository. While the "DataManager" is concerned with
      digital maintenance, the DataCurator's role encompasses quality assurance focused
      on content and metadata. This includes checking whether the submitted dataset
      is complete, with all files and components as described by submitter, whether
      the metadata is standardized to appropriate systems and schema, whether specialized
      metadata is needed to add value and ensure access across disciplines, and determining
      how the metadata might map to search engines, database products, and automated
      feeds.
    meaning: DataCite:DataCurator
    title: data curator
  DataCite:DataManager:
    text: DataCite:DataManager
    description: Person (or organisation with a staff of data managers, such as a
      data centre) responsible for maintaining the finished resource. The work done
      by this person or organisation ensures that the resource is periodically "refreshed"
      in terms of software/hardware support, is kept available or is protected from
      unauthorized access, is stored in accordance with industry standards, and is
      handled in accordance with the records management requirements applicable to
      it.
    meaning: DataCite:DataManager
    title: data manager
  DataCite:Distributor:
    text: DataCite:Distributor
    description: Institution tasked with responsibility to generate/disseminate copies
      of the resource in either electronic or print form. Works stored in more than
      one archive/repository may credit each as a distributor.
    meaning: DataCite:Distributor
    title: distributor
  DataCite:Editor:
    text: DataCite:Editor
    description: A person who oversees the details related to the publication format
      of the resource. N.b. if the Editor is to be credited in place of multiple creators,
      the Editor's name may be supplied as Creator, with "(Ed.)" appended to the name.
    meaning: DataCite:Editor
    title: editor
  DataCite:HostingInstitution:
    text: DataCite:HostingInstitution
    description: Typically, the organisation allowing the resource to be available
      on the internet through the provision of its hardware/software/operating support.
      May also be used for an organisation that stores the data offline. Often a data
      centre (if that data centre is not the "publisher" of the resource.)
    meaning: DataCite:HostingInstitution
    title: hosting institution
  DataCite:Producer:
    text: DataCite:Producer
    description: Typically a person or organisation responsible for the artistry and
      form of a media product. In the data industry, this may be a company "producing"
      DVDs that package data for future dissemination by a distributor.
    meaning: DataCite:Producer
    title: producer
  DataCite:ProjectLeader:
    text: DataCite:ProjectLeader
    description: Person officially designated as head of project team or sub- project
      team instrumental in the work necessary to development of the resource. The
      Project Leader is not "removed" from the work that resulted in the resource;
      he or she remains intimately involved throughout the life of the particular
      project team.
    meaning: DataCite:ProjectLeader
    title: project leader
  DataCite:ProjectManager:
    text: DataCite:ProjectManager
    description: Person officially designated as manager of a project. Project may
      consist of one or many project teams and sub-teams. The manager of a project
      normally has more administrative responsibility than actual work involvement.
    meaning: DataCite:ProjectManager
    title: project manager
  DataCite:ProjectMember:
    text: DataCite:ProjectMember
    description: Person on the membership list of a designated project/project team.
      This vocabulary may or may not indicate the quality, quantity, or substance
      of the person's involvement.
    meaning: DataCite:ProjectMember
    title: project member
  DataCite:RegistrationAgency:
    text: DataCite:RegistrationAgency
    description: Institution/organisation officially appointed by a Registration Authority
      to handle specific tasks within a defined area of responsibility. DataCite is
      a Registration Agency for the International DOI Foundation (IDF). One of DataCite's
      tasks is to assign DOI prefixes to the allocating agents who then assign the
      full, specific character string to data clients, provide metadata back to the
      DataCite registry, etc.
    meaning: DataCite:RegistrationAgency
    title: registration agency
  DataCite:RegistrationAuthority:
    text: DataCite:RegistrationAuthority
    description: A standards-setting body from which Registration Agencies obtain
      official recognition and guidance. The IDF serves as the Registration Authority
      for the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in the area/domain of Digital
      Object Identifiers.
    meaning: DataCite:RegistrationAuthority
    title: registration authority
  DataCite:RelatedPerson:
    text: DataCite:RelatedPerson
    description: A person without a specifically defined role in the development of
      the resource, but who is someone the author wishes to recognize. This person
      could be an author's intellectual mentor, a person providing intellectual leadership
      in the discipline or subject domain, etc.
    meaning: DataCite:RelatedPerson
    title: related person
  DataCite:Researcher:
    text: DataCite:Researcher
    description: A person involved in analyzing data or the results of an experiment
      or formal study. May indicate an intern or assistant to one of the authors who
      helped with research but who was not so "key" as to be listed as an author.
      Should be a person, not an institution. Note that a person involved in the gathering
      of data would fall under the contributorType "DataCollector." The researcher
      may find additional data online and correlate it to the data collected for the
      experiment or study, for example.
    meaning: DataCite:Researcher
    title: researcher
  DataCite:ResearchGroup:
    text: DataCite:ResearchGroup
    description: Typically refers to a group of individuals with a lab, department,
      or division; the group has a particular, defined focus of activity. May operate
      at a narrower level of scope; may or may not hold less administrative responsibility
      than a project team.
    meaning: DataCite:ResearchGroup
    title: research group
  DataCite:RightsHolder:
    text: DataCite:RightsHolder
    description: Person or institution owning or managing property rights, including
      intellectual property rights over the resource.
    meaning: DataCite:RightsHolder
    title: rights holder
  DataCite:Sponsor:
    text: DataCite:Sponsor
    description: Person or organisation that issued a contract or under the auspices
      of which a work has been written, printed, published, developed, etc. Includes
      organisations that provide in-kind support, through donation, provision of people
      or a facility or instrumentation necessary for the development of the resource,
      etc.
    meaning: DataCite:Sponsor
    title: sponsor
  DataCite:Supervisor:
    text: DataCite:Supervisor
    description: Designated administrator over one or more groups/teams working to
      produce a resource or over one or more steps of a development process.
    meaning: DataCite:Supervisor
    title: supervisor
  DataCite:WorkPackageLeader:
    text: DataCite:WorkPackageLeader
    description: A Work Package is a recognized data product, not all of which is
      included in publication. The package, instead, may include notes, discarded
      documents, etc. The Work Package Leader is responsible for ensuring the comprehensive
      contents, versioning, and availability of the Work Package during the development
      of the resource.
    meaning: DataCite:WorkPackageLeader
    title: work package leader
  DataCite:Other:
    text: DataCite:Other
    description: Any person or institution making a significant contribution to the
      development and/or maintenance of the resource, but whose contribution does
      not "fit" other controlled vocabulary for contributorType. Could be a photographer,
      artist, or writer whose contribution helped to publicize the resource (as opposed
      to creating it), a reviewer of the resource, someone providing administrative
      services to the author (such as depositing updates into an online repository,
      analysing usage, etc.), or one of many other roles.
    meaning: DataCite:Other
    title: other
  crcr:conceptualization:
    text: crcr:conceptualization
    description: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and
      aims.
    meaning: crcr:conceptualization
    title: conceptualization
  crcr:data-curation:
    text: crcr:data-curation
    description: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data
      and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for
      interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
    meaning: crcr:data-curation
    title: data curation
  crcr:formal-analysis:
    text: crcr:formal-analysis
    description: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other
      formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
    meaning: crcr:formal-analysis
    title: formal analysis
  crcr:funding-acquisition:
    text: crcr:funding-acquisition
    description: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this
      publication.
    meaning: crcr:funding-acquisition
    title: funding acquisition
  crcr:investigation:
    text: crcr:investigation
    description: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing
      the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
    meaning: crcr:investigation
    title: investigation
  crcr:methodology:
    text: crcr:methodology
    description: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
    meaning: crcr:methodology
    title: methodology
  crcr:project-administration:
    text: crcr:project-administration
    description: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity
      planning and execution.
    meaning: crcr:project-administration
    title: project administration
  crcr:resources:
    text: crcr:resources
    description: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory
      samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
    meaning: crcr:resources
    title: resources
  crcr:software:
    text: crcr:software
    description: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation
      of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
    meaning: crcr:software
    title: software
  crcr:supervision:
    text: crcr:supervision
    description: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity
      planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
    meaning: crcr:supervision
    title: supervision
  crcr:validation:
    text: crcr:validation
    description: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the
      overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research
      outputs.
    meaning: crcr:validation
    title: validation
  crcr:visualization:
    text: crcr:visualization
    description: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work,
      specifically visualization/data presentation.
    meaning: crcr:visualization
    title: visualization
  crcr:writing-original-draft:
    text: crcr:writing-original-draft
    description: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work,
      specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
    meaning: crcr:writing-original-draft
    title: writing, original draft
  crcr:writing-review-editing:
    text: crcr:writing-review-editing
    description: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by
      those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary
      or revision -- including pre- or post-publication stages.
    meaning: crcr:writing-review-editing
    title: writing, review and/or editing
reachable_from:
  source_ontology: bioportal:DATACITE-VOCAB
  source_nodes:
  - DataCite:ContributorRole
  relationship_types:
  - RDFS:subClassOf
  include_self: false