ResearchInstrument

Derived from Schema.org IndividualProduct

Thing > Product > IndividualProduct > ResearchInstrument

A research instrument, a specific machine installed at a certain location, with a serial number, and trackable research impact.

Property	Expected Type	Required	Description
Properties from ResearchInstrument
`location`	Place or CollegeOrUniversity	Required	The location of the instrument, a college or university or other research institution. The place should contain sufficient details to geolocate the instrument, using either a postal address or geocoordinates.
`contacts`	Person	Recommended	Research experts for that instrument, who will be added as contacts in DMR-FIRST.
`facility`	Text	Optional	A facility within the college or university indicated by the attribute location.
`room`	Text	Recommended	The room number within the building specified by the attribute location.
Properties from IndividualProduct
`serialNumber`	Text	Recommended	The serial number or any alphanumeric identifier of a particular product.
Properties from Product
`additionalProperty`	PropertyValue	Optional	A property-value pair representing an additional characteristic of the entity. Two types of additional Properties are supported, 'capabilities' and 'process_capabilities'. List the general capabilities in the first, and the current setup (like elements available) in the latter.
`category`	Text or URL	Required	The instrument type or technique.
`funding`	Grant	Recommended	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this research instrument. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
`isRelatedTo`	Product or Service	Optional	A pointer to another related instrument, eg. instruments allowing in-vacuo transfer, or older/new versions of that instrument.
`manufacturer`	Organization	Recommended	The manufacturer of the research instrument.
`model`	Text	Recommended	The model or model number of the research instrument.
`releaseDate`	Date	Recommended	The date the research instrument was completed and ready to be used.
Properties from Thing
`description`	Text	Recommended	A description of the research instrument.
`identifier`	PropertyValue or Text or URL	Recommended	The DOI of the instrument. Once a DOI has been issued, it is recommended to always included this to avoid any duplicate issues when looking up instruments by name.
`image`	ImageObject or URL	Recommended	An image of the research instrument. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`name`	Text	Required	The name of the research instrument.
`url`	URL	Required	URL of the instrument page at it's institution.

Examples

Example 1

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
      {
          "@type": "ResearchInstrument",
          "name": "MBE #1",
          "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.1234/567890",
          "category": "mbe",
          "image": [],
          "isRelatedTo": [{
              "@type": "IndividualProduct",
              "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.1234/56789",
              "name": "ARPES #1"
          }],
          "location": {
              "@type": "Place",
              "name": "The Building",
              "address": {
                  "@type": "PostalAddress",
                  "streetAddress": "17 Under a rock",
                  "addressLocality": "Someplace",
                  "addressRegion": "PA",
                  "postalCode": "12345",
                  "addressCountry": "US"
              }
          },
          "facility": "Facility",
          "room": "911",
          "description": "That\u0027s a description",
          "manufacturer": {
              "@type": "Organization",
              "name": "DCA"
          },
          "additionalProperty": [
              {
                  "@type": "PropertyValue",
                  "propertyID": "capabilities",
                  "value": "Describe the capabilities here"
              }
          ],
          "model": "Don\u0027t know",
          "serialNumber": "# 123 456 789",
          "funding": {
              "@type": "Grant",
              "identifier": "DMR-123456789",
              "funder": {
                  "@type": "Organization",
                  "name": "National Science Foundation"
              }
          },
          "contacts": [{
              "@type": "Person",
              "identifier": "someone@somewhere.edu",
              "name": "Someone"
          }]
      }
  ]
}</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Acknowledgements

This term uses terminology from the GoodRelations Vocabulary for E-Commerce, created by Martin Hepp. GoodRelations is a data model for sharing e-commerce data on the Web. More information about GoodRelations can be found at http://purl.org/goodrelations/.