New version of the Resource Type Vocabulary now available – COAR

"COAR is very pleased to announce the publication of the COAR Resource Type Controlled Vocabulary, Version 3.2. 

The vocabulary now contains 105 terms that represent the wide variety of scholarly resources that are being deposited, managed, and made available through repositories around the world. Each concept is accompanied by a definition and is related to other concepts in the vocabulary, as well as linked to similar concepts in third-party vocabularies. Thanks to the efforts of the COAR’s international membership, the vocabulary is now available in 25 languages, offering even greater value to the global open science ecosystem. This is an excellent illustration of the COAR community’s strong commitment to multilingualism in scholarly communications.

This vocabulary enhances interoperability across the repository network and the entire scholarly ecosystem because it ensures that everyone is “using the same word to mean the same thing”. It contributes to a FAIR environment (finable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) bringing greater coherence for initiatives like the EOSC, and indexing and discovery services such as LA Referencia, OpenAlex, and OpenAIRE...."