Re: [dxwg] Funding source [RFS]

@smrgeoinfo said:

> An important fact that needs to be associated with the dataset is an identifier for the funding instrument-- i.e. the grant number. Can a grant be a prov:Agent?
> DataCite v4 model is a good template: a fundingReference (class) has properties funderName, funderIdentifier, awardNumber, and awardTitle. Of course if there were a pattern for an award class, and the awardNumber was awardURI that would dereference to get a representation of the class, that's all you'd need.

I agree. It may be worth building upon what done in other communities and metadata schemas (as DataCite), where a similar discussion has already taken place, and for which they provided a solution.

A possible DCAT-based representation of the DataCite approach is available in the documentation to the DataCite / DCAT-AP mapping we did at JRC:

https://ec-jrc.github.io/datacite-to-dcat-ap/#mapping-funding-reference

Here is an example, based on the mappings defined above:

````turtle
a:Dataset a dcat:Dataset ;
  frapo:isFundedBy a:Project .

a:Project a foaf:Project ;
  dct:identifier "My Project" ;
  dct:title "123456" ;
  frapo:isAwardedBy a:Funder .
  
a:Funder a foaf:Organization ;
  foaf:name "My Funder"
  dct:identifier "78910" .  
````

The same could be written by using @dr-shorthair 's Project Ontology as follows (although I'm not sure it's correct):

````turtle
a:Dataset a dcat:Dataset ;
  frapo:isFundedBy a:Project .

a:Project a proj:Project ;
  dct:identifier "My Project" ;
  dct:title "123456" ;
  prof:hadSponsor a:Funder .
  
a:Funder a prov:Agent , foaf:Organization ;
  foaf:name "My Funder"
  dct:identifier "78910" .  
````

Personally, I think that what is in scope of DCAT are just the first 2 lines (whereas the rest can be included as an example on how to use external vocabularies):

````turtle
a:Dataset a dcat:Dataset ;
  frapo:isFundedBy a:Project .
````

so, IMHO, the main issue is whether we would like to use `frapo:isFundedBy` (or a similar property from existing vocabularies), rather than define a new one in the DCAT namespace.

PS: I see the discussion very much overlapping with #71, so I wonder whether we should try to merge them.


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