<div dir="ltr"><div>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
 <a href="http://schema.org">schema.org</a> 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.
<p><strong>Guidelines</strong>:  <a rel="nofollow" href="https://science-on-schema.org">https://science-on-schema.org</a></p>
<p><strong>DOI</strong>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477164" rel="nofollow">10.5281/zenodo.4477164</a></p>
<p><strong>Citation</strong>: 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. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477164">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477164</a></p>
<p>Contributors: Adam Leadbetter, Dan Brickley, Richard Wallis.</p>
<h2>RELEASE NOTES</h2>
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<p><strong>FIXES</strong></p>
<ul><li>Fix various errors in <a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/blob/1.2.0/examples/dataset/full.jsonld">Dataset full example</a> JSON-LD (<a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/115">Issue #115</a>)
<ul><li>the <code>identifier</code> should be of type <code>PropertyValue</code></li><li>the <code>sameAs</code> property is missing</li><li>the <code>isAccessibleForFree</code> property is missing</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<p><strong>IMPROVEMENTS</strong></p>
<ul><li>Improvements for describing geospatial coverage (<a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/blob/1.2.0/decisions/101-spatialExtent.md">decision</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/101">Issue #101</a>)</li><li>Dataset Provenance for processing workflows, data derivation, and dataset versioning (<a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/blob/1.2.0/decisions/72-provenance.md">decision</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/72">Issue #72</a>)
<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/blob/1.2.0/guides/Dataset.md##provenance-relationships">Guide: Dataset - Provenance Relationships</a></li></ul>
</li><li>Use <code>schema:dateModified</code>for announcing when a Dataset resource has changed (<a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/67">Issue #67</a>)
<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/blob/1.2.0/guides/Dataset.md#howmodification_times">Guide: Dataset - Time of resource modification</a></li></ul>
</li><li>How to reference a short DOI (<a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/120">Issue #120</a>)
<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/blob/1.2.0/guides/Dataset.md#how-to-reference-short-dois">Guide: Dataset - How to reference Short DOI</a></li></ul>
</li><li>Update GOVERNANCE & README to list ESIP Schema.org Cluster meeting times (<a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/111">Issue #111</a>)</li></ul>
<p><strong>NEW FEATURES</strong></p>
<ul><li>Add SHACL shape to validate <a href="http://schema.org">schema.org</a> namespace (<a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/blob/1.2.0/decisions/52-namespace-consistency.md">decision</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/59">Issue #59</a>)</li></ul></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>--<br></b></div><div><b>Matthew B. Jones</b></div><div>ORCID: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0077-4738" target="_blank">0000-0003-0077-4738</a></div><div>
Director of Informatics R&D, <a href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinfo" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis</a></div><div>PI, NSF <a href="https://arcticdata.io/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Arctic Data Center</a></div><div>Director, <a href="https://dataone.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">DataONE</a> program
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University of California Santa Barbara</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>