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Dataset (as output)

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.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

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

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JATS XML <role> element

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" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

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/"
}

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