Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A 50-GB dataset on Zenodo with DOI, full metadata, CC-BY licence, cited 200 times across the literature
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A CSV file emailed to a colleague with no repository, DOI, or metadata is not a dataset-as-output
Editorial commentary
Dataset citation principles (FORCE11 2014) and the DataCite metadata schema have established datasets as first-class outputs. Counted in narrative CVs, REF, and increasingly in promotion criteria. May be accompanied by a data paper but is also citable standalone.
References
- FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (2014)
- DataCite Metadata Schema v4.5
Also known as
Research dataset (output) · Citable dataset
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Dataset (as output)"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dataset-as-output" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Dataset (as output)",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dataset-as-output",
"description": "A research dataset deposited in a FAIR-aligned repository with a persistent identifier (typically a DataCite DOI), metadata, licence, and access conditions, treated as a citable scholarly output in its own right rather than only as supporting material for a paper.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-outputs-expanded/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dataset-as-output",
"sameAs": [
"Research dataset (output)",
"Citable dataset"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
