Equipment

Description: An instrument or other device used to perform research
Examples: openaire_cerif_xml_example_equipments.xml
Representation: XML element Equipment; the rest of this section documents children of this element
CERIF: the Equipment entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Equipment)

Internal Identifier

Use: mandatory (1) in top level entity. When embedded in other entities the Internal Identifier must be included only for managed information (i.e. entities that have a concrete record in the local CRIS system). See Metadata representation in CERIF XML
Representation: XML attribute id
CERIF: the EquipmentIdentifier attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Equipment.EquipmentIdentifier)

Description: The type of the equipment
Use: optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation: XML element Type containing the classification identifier and having a scheme attribute to specify the classification scheme identifier
CERIF: the Equipment_Classification (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Equipment_Classification)

Description: Acronym of the equipment
Use: optional (0..1)
Representation: XML element Acronym
CERIF: the Equipment.Acronym attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Equipment.Acronym)

Description: Name of the equipment
Use: optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation: XML element Name as a multilingual string
CERIF: the Equipment.Name attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Equipment.Name)

Description: An identifier of this equipment
Use: optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation: XML element Identifier with a required type attribute (the URI of the identifier scheme)
CERIF: the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)

Description: Description of the equipment
Use: optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation: XML element Description as a multilingual string
CERIF: the Equipment.Description attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Equipment.Description)

Description: The owner of the piece of equipment
Use: optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation: XML element Owner with embedded XML element OrgUnit or Person. A DisplayName may be specified, too.
CERIF: the Person_Service linking entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Person_Service) with the https://w3id.org/cerif/vocab/PersonResearchInfrastructureRoles#Owner semantics; the OrganisationUnit_Service linking entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#OrganisationUnit_Service) with the https://w3id.org/cerif/vocab/OrganisationResearchInfrastructureRoles#Owner semantics