Authoritative identifier for funding entities

[claranjeira20]

Hi everyone,

We are developing a national database which aims to aggregate all available information regarding funding (national and international sources) attributed to research in Portugal.

The database follows the provided guidelines from OpenAIRE, with slight changes to assure full compliance with the Portuguese scientific system.

In this context, we are seeking for advice on the proper representation of an attribute according to CERIF XML and following the OpenAIRE guidelines:

One of our data sources encloses projects within advanced computation, in which the funding was provided in CPU instead of money. We were wondering whether it would be feasible to enrich the vocabulary of the "type of the funding" with "equipment" and "facilities". This would allow us to overcome the limitation of the current classification system and correctly represent funding that doesn't involve money transfers.

Thanks in advance.

[jdvorak001]

The CERIF model says this about Funding:

Funding is an amount of money or inkind equivalent value.

(https://rawgit.com/EuroCRIS/CERIF-DataModel/develop/documentation/Tables.html, navigate to cfFund, the Notes section)

You are calling for contributions beyond financial support to be represented, the so-called in-kind support of a project. If you could somehow translate the CPU time donation into financial terms, it would work. In other situations, we are now probably left with just a free-text description of such Funding. Modelling the context is very much specific to the type of in-kind support and it hasn't been done yet. Representing digital services for research projects will certainly become relevant with EOSC.