Re: [dxwg] Funding source [RFS]

The upshot of the  extensive, multi-threaded conversation about this on the schema.org wiki (https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/383), led @danbri to[ propose several classes and properties there ](https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/383#issuecomment-398355608)
[Grant](https://webschemas.org/Grant)
[MonetaryGrant](https://webschemas.org/MonetaryGrant)
[Project](https://webschemas.org/Project)
[FundingAgency](https://webschemas.org/FundingAgency)
[FundingScheme](https://webschemas.org/FundingScheme)
[ResearchProject](https://webschemas.org/ResearchProject)
These are all in the 'pending' bin as Schema.org

I know that NSF program managers, or someone reviewing performance of a data management plan, would like to be able to search for all resources (datasets, services, software, publications....) that are products of e.g. NSF Award ICER 1639764 (Grant, Award, funding instrument).   Legislative watch dogs might be very interested in finding all the products of a particular NIH, EPOS, or CSIRO program (fundingScheme), philanthropists might want to find all the products of a particular foundation (fundingAgency) or non-profit program (FundingScheme) to see what's actually getting published.  The kind of stuff that gets put in the acknowledgements section of just about any academic product.

Providing a link (resolvable identifier) to the actual funding instrument (award, gift, grant, bequest, cooperative agreement, contract, organization project number) would do the trick as long as there's some way to track from that link back to the rest of the administrative and organizational infrastructure behind the funding instrument.  I think that's the key piece of information.

the https://dcodings.github.io/DINGO ontology was developed by a working group that included @danbri in June, 2018; it is anchored in various schema.org classes, I think could be harmonized with @dr-shorthair 's model, and includes the classes and associations to represent linkage to funding scheme, agency, project etc. 
In the @dr-shorthair model, the linkage from a dataset to the grant identifier would be like
dcat:Dataset--> prov:wasGeneratedBy --> proj:Project -->proj:wasFundedThrough --> proj:FundingAssociation --> proj:grantNumber (the funder prov:Agent is also linked thru the FundingAssociation)

I was hoping for something more direct like dataset --> fundedBy --> grantNumber (and in the background grantNumbre --> grant --> fundingScheme --> fundingAgency to get the rest of the details).   This puts the focus on the acknowledgment for support, perhaps not as elegant a model of the world. 

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