Announce the v1.2.0 release

[ashepherd]

• Write intro sentences (abbrev. version of README text)
• esip-schema-org, (Adam)
• esip-all, (Adam)
• RDA research-metadata-schemas, (Adam)
• polar data group, (Matt)
• LTER IM, (Matt)
• DataONE, (Matt)
• agu-essi, (via Twitter)
• CANLIB-DATA , (via Twitter)
• Dataverse, (via Twitter)
• W3C Schemaorg mailing list, (via Twitter)

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Email Text Below

On behalf of the Schema.org cluster at ESIP, we are pleased to announce the latest version of the Science-on-schema.org publishing guidelines. These guidelines describe how to publish consistent and FAIR schema.org markup for Datasets. Stewarded by members of the ESIP Schema.org cluster, version 1.2.0 was developed in collaboration with other data repository operators and Schema.org project members.

Guidelines: https://science-on-schema.org

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4477164

Citation: Matthew B. Jones, Stephen Richard, Dave Vieglais, Adam Shepherd, Ruth Duerr, Doug Fils, Lewis McGibbney. (2021). Science-on-Schema.org v1.2.0 (Version 1.2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477164

Contributors: Adam Leadbetter, Dan Brickley, Richard Wallis.

RELEASE NOTES

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FIXES

• Fix various errors in Dataset full example JSON-LD (Issue #115)
  • the identifier should be of type PropertyValue
  • the sameAs property is missing
  • the isAccessibleForFree property is missing

IMPROVEMENTS

• Improvements for describing geospatial coverage (decision, Issue #101)
• Dataset Provenance for processing workflows, data derivation, and dataset versioning (decision, Issue #72)
  • Guide: Dataset - Provenance Relationships
• Use schema:dateModifiedfor announcing when a Dataset resource has changed (Issue #67)
  • Guide: Dataset - Time of resource modification
• How to reference a short DOI (Issue #120)
  • Guide: Dataset - How to reference Short DOI
• Update GOVERNANCE & README to list ESIP Schema.org Cluster meeting times (Issue #111)

NEW FEATURES

• Add SHACL shape to validate schema.org namespace (decision, Issue #59)

[ashepherd]

@mbjones , text ok?

[mbjones]

Looks good to me. Nitpick -- the Authors is redundant with Citation and can probably be removed. But looks good either way.

[ashepherd]

Good point! I’ll take that out and move Contributors underneath the citation.

[mbjones]

@ashepherd I edited it in the text above and will hit the lists that I indicated above. I'm happy to hit some more lists too if you'd like, but thought I would start there.

[ashepherd]

Tweeted to all the folks: https://twitter.com/ScienceOnSchema/status/1359171303027146757

mentions @ESIPfed @resdatall @ESSI_AGU @dataverseorg @SchemaOrg @LibraryArchives @DataONEorg @USLTER