---
vocabulary:
  name: RWTH Aachen University Coscine API Vocabulary
  description: >-
    Controlled vocabulary of the core terms used across the Coscine Web API
    (RWTH Aachen University research data management platform), derived from
    its OpenAPI description. Terms reflect Coscine's FAIR research data model.
  version: "2.0"
  terms:
    - term: Project
      definition: >-
        A research project in Coscine; the top-level container that groups
        resources, members, disciplines, and organizations and carries a
        persistent identifier (PID).
      tags: [core, container, rdm]
    - term: Resource
      definition: >-
        A storage-backed data container within a project, bound to a resource
        type (e.g. RDS NRW S3 or linked storage) and an application profile.
      tags: [core, storage, rdm]
    - term: Blob
      definition: >-
        A binary object (file) stored under a resource, addressed by key via
        the S3-style blob endpoints.
      tags: [core, storage, file]
    - term: ApplicationProfile
      definition: >-
        A metadata schema (expressed as SHACL/RDF) that constrains and describes
        the metadata captured for a resource's contents.
      tags: [metadata, profile, semantic]
    - term: Graph
      definition: >-
        An RDF metadata graph holding the descriptive metadata for files within
        a resource, conforming to the resource's application profile.
      tags: [metadata, rdf, semantic]
    - term: Discipline
      definition: >-
        A research discipline classification (with German and English labels)
        associated with projects, resources, and users.
      tags: [classification, taxonomy]
    - term: Organization
      definition: >-
        An institution (identified by ROR or similar) associated with a project.
      tags: [classification, institution]
    - term: Visibility
      definition: >-
        The visibility setting controlling whether an entity's metadata is
        public or internal.
      tags: [access, governance]
    - term: ApiToken
      definition: >-
        A bearer token issued to a user for authenticating API requests against
        the Coscine Web API.
      tags: [auth, security]
    - term: PID
      definition: >-
        A persistent identifier (Handle) minted for projects, resources, and
        files to support stable citation and FAIR findability.
      tags: [identifier, fair, handle]
    - term: Provenance
      definition: >-
        Records describing the origin and processing history of data within
        a resource.
      tags: [metadata, lineage]
    - term: PublicationRequest
      definition: >-
        A request to publish a project's data, routed through the publication
        advisory service for review.
      tags: [publication, workflow]