---
vocabulary:
  name: King's College London Research Repository Vocabulary
  description: >-
    Controlled vocabulary of the core terms used by the Figshare public REST API
    that powers the King's College London research data repository
    (kcl.figshare.com), plus the OAI-PMH research metadata interface of the
    King's Research Portal (Pure). Definitions are derived from the live
    Figshare OpenAPI 3.0.3 specification.
  version: "1.0.0"
  terms:
    - term: Article
      definition: >-
        A single published research item (dataset, paper, media, figure, poster
        and similar) in the repository, identified by an integer id and a DOI.
      tags: [ figshare, core, research-output ]
    - term: Collection
      definition: >-
        A curated grouping of related research items, identified by an integer id,
        DOI and handle.
      tags: [ figshare, core ]
    - term: Author
      definition: >-
        A contributor to a research item, with full name, ORCID identifier and an
        active flag indicating whether they have published items.
      tags: [ figshare, people ]
    - term: Category
      definition: >-
        A taxonomy classification applied to research items, with a parent id and
        a path of ancestor ids in a standard subject taxonomy.
      tags: [ figshare, taxonomy ]
    - term: Timeline
      definition: >-
        The set of important lifecycle dates for a research item, including posted,
        firstOnline, submission and revision timestamps.
      tags: [ figshare, dates ]
    - term: DOI
      definition: >-
        Digital Object Identifier minted for an article or collection, used as the
        persistent citation handle for the research output.
      tags: [ identifier, persistent ]
    - term: Handle
      definition: >-
        A Handle System persistent identifier assigned to articles and collections.
      tags: [ identifier, persistent ]
    - term: ORCID
      definition: >-
        Open Researcher and Contributor ID assigned to an author for unambiguous
        attribution across systems.
      tags: [ identifier, people ]
    - term: OAI-PMH
      definition: >-
        Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, used by the
        King's Research Portal (Pure) and the Figshare endpoint to expose record
        metadata to harvesters via verbs such as Identify, ListRecords and
        ListMetadataFormats.
      tags: [ pure, harvesting, metadata, protocol ]
    - term: Pure
      definition: >-
        Elsevier's research information system that backs the King's Research
        Portal, the institutional repository front end exposing an OAI-PMH
        interface over an OpenAIRE CERIF profile.
      tags: [ pure, repository ]