Data model Infoscience¶
The Infoscience data model describes all entities, metadata fields, and their relationships in the repository.
Metadata Application Profile¶
The interactive Metadata Application Profile lists all metadata fields for each public entity type (Publication, Product, Patent, OrgUnit, Person, Event, Journal) with their labels, constraints, authority control, type-binding rules, and Solr search indexes.
View the Metadata Application Profile
Overview¶
Infoscience is built on DSpace-CRIS, combining the DSpace institutional repository with CRIS (Current Research Information System) capabilities. The data model covers:
- Scholarly works: publications, datasets, patents
- People: researcher profiles, ORCID links, name variations
- Units: laboratories, research centers, administrative units
- Journals: journal metadata and ISSN identifiers
- Events: conferences, workshops, symposiums
Metadata standards¶
Infoscience metadata aligns with:
- Dublin Core and Qualified DC for basic bibliographic description
- DataCite schema for datasets and DOI registration
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for interoperability with European research infrastructure
- COAR Resource Types vocabulary for document type classification
- MARC for library catalog interoperability
Metadata license¶
All Infoscience metadata are licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 — freely usable, modifiable, and redistributable without prior consent.