Publications Office of the European Commission
The EUropean Research Information Ontology (EURIO) conceptualises, formally encodes and makes available in an open, structured and machine-readable format data about research projects funded by the EU's framework programmes for research and innovation.
EURIO: EUropean Research Information Ontology
CORDIS is the portal responsible for publishing the results of EU-funded research and innovation projects. EURIO (EUropean Research Information Ontology) is the conceptual data model developed by the Publications Office of the European Commission to represent and structure the CORDIS content in a semantic format improving its transparency, reusability and accessibility.
Relates the funding agency to the grant(s) that it disburses.
disburses
Relates the organisation to the role representing a person that the organisation employs during a project in which both participate.
employs
Relates the grant with the project(s) that are completely or partially funded by it.
funds
Relates an entity (e.g. project, grant, etc.) with its acronym(s). This includes acronyms representing the entity’s title as well as any additional acronyms extracted from other attributes of the entity.
has acronym
Relates a physical location to its registered address.
has address
Relates an entity other than funding scheme (e.g., result, etc.) with associated funding schemes.
has associated funding scheme
Relates the grant to the organisation or person role(s) that are a beneficiary of the grant.
has beneficiary
Relates the role to the contact details of the entity taking the role (person or organisation) which are valid during the project of which the role forms a part.
has contact details
The geo-coordinates of a place
has coordinates
The country code of the location or address according to the EU country codes.
has EU country code
One or more values from the EuroSciVoc taxonomy that represent the main fields of science of the project.
has EuroSciVoc classification
Relates the grant or funding scheme to the amount of money available for funding.
has funding amount
Relates the grant to the funding scheme of which the grant forms a part.
has funding scheme
Indicates the Call under which a project has been funded.
has funding scheme call
A list of terms specifying the different categories / types of funding schemes.
has funding scheme category
Indicates the legal basis under which a project has been funded.
has funding scheme programme
Indicates the Topic under which a project has been funded.
has funding scheme topic
Indicates the type of action under which a project has been funded.
has funding scheme type
The basic containment relation between a place and one that contains it
has geographical location
Relates a funding scheme with the grants that form part of it.
has grant
The 2-digit ISO country code.
has ISO country code
Relates the Project to the roles that are involved in the project.
has involved party
A value representing the NUTS-0 code of the place or address.
has NUTS 0 code
A value representing the NUTS-1 code of the place or address.
has NUTS 1 code
A value representing the NUTS-2 code of the place or address.
has NUTS 2 code
A value representing the NUTS-3 code of the place or address.
has NUTS 3 code
A value representing the NUTS code of the place or address.
has NUTS code
Relates a funding scheme with the next funding scheme.
has next funding scheme
Relates the grant to its payment(s).
has payment
Relates the payment to the amount of money that was given to the beneficiary of the payment.
has payment amount
Relates a funding scheme with the previous funding scheme.
has previous funding scheme
Relates the grant payment to the organisation or person role(s) which have received the grant payment. Inverse property of isRecipientOf.
has recipient
Represents a generic non parent-child relation between two CORDIS projects.
has related project
Represents a generic non parent-child relation between two funding schemes.
has related scheme
Relates the project with its result(s).
has result
A list of terms specifying the types of results that can have a project.
has result type
Relates the person/organisation to the roles that the person/organisation takes.
has role
relates an organisation to its physical site
has site
Relates the organisation with another organisation which is a sub-part or child of it.
has sub-organisation
Relates the funding scheme to its sub-schemes.
has subscheme
Relates the project with the amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for the project.
has total cost
Relates the organisation with a unit or department that forms part of the organisation.
has unit
Relates a funding agency to the funding schemes that it implements and administers.
implements
Relates the acronym to the entity or entities to which it belongs.
is acronym of
Relates the role to the grant(s) of which the role is a beneficiary.
is beneficiary of
Relates the grant to the funding agency that disburses the grant.
is disbursed by
Relates the person role to the organisation in which the person holding the role is employed during the project.
is employed by
Relates the project with the grant(s) that completely or partially fund the project.
is funded by
Relates the funding scheme with the funding agency that implements and administers the scheme.
is implemented by
Relates the role to the Project in which it is involved.
is involved in
Relates a payment to the grant of which it is a part.
is payment of
Relates the organisation or person role with the grant payment(s) which they have received. Inverse property of hasRecipient.
is recipient of
Relates the results with the Project(s) involved.
is result of
Relates the person/organisation role to the person/organisation which assumes the role.
is role of
Indicates an entity which has presence at the given site
is site of
Relates the organisation with another organisation of which it is a sub-part.
is sub-organisation of
Relates the funding scheme to its parent scheme of which this funding scheme forms a part.
is subscheme of
Relates the unit to the organisation of which the unit forms a part.
is unit of
The entity to which this acronym refers. This can either be an entity inside of the knowledge graph or an external entity of any type.
refers to
The general summary and ideas of a CORDIS entity, e.g., project, result.
abstract
An additional name for a Person, can be used for a middle name.
additional name
The country of the place or address. You can also provide the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
address country
The locality, town or city of the place or address.
address locality
The list of authors.
author list
A CORDA code.
code
The currency in which the monetary amount is expressed.
currency
The date in which the grant payment took place.
date
The definition of the acronym.
definition
A brief summary of the entity (project, etc.).
description
The digital object identifier of a publication.
doi
The period of time an entity (e.g. project, grant, etc.) has taken, represented as number of months.
duration
Email address.
email
The date on which an entity (e.g. project, grant, etc.) is finalized or ceases to exist.
end date
The family name (last name) of the person.
family name
The fax number.
fax number
A brief description of the project findings.
final results
The full address of a physical location of an entity.
full address
The given name (first name) of the person.
given name
An honorific prefix preceding a Person's name such as Dr, Mrs, Mr.
honorific title
The internal CORDA identifier.
identifier
Represents whether the monetary amount has deducted taxes or not.
is net
The international standard book number of book publications.
isbn
The international standard serial number of journal publications.
issn
The journal number of a published result.
journal number
The title of the journal of a published result.
journal title
Word or words that represent the main idea of a referred entity (e.g., project. project result, etc.)
keyword
The latitude of a location. For example 37.42242 (WGS 84).
latitude
The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name.
legal name
The longitude of a location. For example -122.08585 (WGS 84).
longitude
The name of an entity
name
The number of the reporting period.
period number
The post office box number for PO box addresses.
post office box number
The postal code of the place or address.
postal code
The current status (signed, ongoing, terminated, etc.) of the project.
project status
The pages of a published result.
published pages
The year of publication.
published year
Represents the publishing body of a published result.
publisher
Internal CORDIS identifier used for the identification of the domain entities (e.g., projects, project results, organisations, funding schemes, etc.). Stands for Resource Control Number.
rcn
Title for capturing the role of an organisation.
role label
The value of the acronym.
short form
The day a grant agreement has been signed.
signature date
The time an entity (e.g. project, grant, etc.) is initialized or starts to take effect.
start date
The street name and number of the place or address.
street address
The telephone number.
telephone number
The termination date of a project.
termination date
The entity’s (e.g. project, work package, etc.) official name or title.
title
A URL that links internet resources related to a CORDIS entity.
URL
The value of amount being expressed.
value
The unique number that identifies a taxable organisation or non-taxable legal entity that is registered for VAT.
VAT number
A summary of the work carried out during the development of the project.
work performed
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word. It can refer to any type of entities in the CORDIS conceptual framework, and may be stated explicitly or extracted automatically from text.
Acronym
An administrative geographical area that is typically managed by a public body. It can be a country, a region, a municipality, a province, a sub-municipality area, etc.
Administrative Area
A non-serial document that is complete in one volume or a designated finite number of volumes. A book published by a publisher is usually identified by an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and may be manifested as a physical printed publication on paper bound in a hard or soft cover, or in electronic format as an 'e-book'.
Book
A defined chapter of a book, usually with a separate title or number.
Book Chapter
A paper, typically the realization of a research paper reporting original research findings, usually published within a conference proceedings volume.
Conference Paper
A contact point of an organisation or a person.
Contact Point
The geo coordinates for a location of entities that participate in or form part of research projects.
Coordinates
A country
Country
Any acronym that has been detected, automatically or manually, from the description of an entity or from any other form of natural language text.
Detected Acronym
An exploitable project result, e.g., a patent.
Exploitable Result
A for profit entity
For Profit Organisation
An organisation that materially administrates funding schemes and disburses related grants. In the context of CORDIS, it represents the various European agencies responsible for funding research projects (e.g. ERC, EASME, REA, etc.).
Funding Agency
Set of rules and conditions which forms the basis for public funding of European research. In CORDIS, they represent the different legal frameworks (e.g. FP6, FP7, H2020). They can also be used to represent the different calls inside each framework by using the recursive relation “partOfScheme”.
Funding Scheme
A disbursed fund paid to a recipient or beneficiary within the context of a funded research project. In the context of CORDIS, it represents a grant of a specific EU programme (e.g. an H2020 grant).
Grant
A single payment to a recipient or beneficiary of a Grant within a research project.
Grant Payment
Institution that provides education.
Higher Or Secondary Education
An article, typically the realization of a research paper reporting original research findings, published in a journal issue.
Journal Paper
A monetary value or range. This type can be used to describe an amount of money such as $50 USD, or a range as in describing a bank account being suitable for a balance between £1,000 and £1,000,000 GBP, or the value of a salary, etc.
Monetary Amount
A work that hasn't undergone peer reviewing prior to its publication.
Non Peer-Reviewed Publication
Represents a group of people, with the same purpose, organized together into a community or other social, commercial or political structure that participate in CORDIS projects.
Organisation
Function assumed by or ascribed to an organisation that takes part in a particular project. In CORDIs, it represents roles such as coordinator, partner, consortium member, etc.
Organisation Role
A department or unit which is part of some larger Organization and only has full recognition within the context of that Organization. In CORDIS, it represents for instance the different departments of a university that participate in a particular project.
Organisation Unit
A physical person. In CORDIS, it represents the different people assuming roles in research projects (e.g. PhD students, PIs, administrative contacts, etc.).
Person
Function assumed by or ascribed to a person that takes part in a particular project. In CORDIS, it represents roles such as contact person, PI, etc.
Person Role
The postal address of entities that participate in or form part of research projects.
Postal Address
A planned research work that has one or more objectives (divided or not into tasks) and is conducted by one or more organisations. In CORDIS, it represents a project funded by an EU programme.
Project
A document referring to the results obtained during the development of a project.
Project Deliverable
A scientific publication (e.g., journal article, conference paper, thesis dissertation, book, etc.) that resulted from the project activities.
Project Publication
A document reporting on the progress of an on-going or completed project at a given period..
Project Report Summary
Organisation or agency depending on a government, State or other supranational organisation and mainly operated by the government.
Public Body
Organisations devoted to research activities.
Research Organisation
Any tangible or intangible output of the project (such as data, knowledge and information, whatever their form or nature, whether or not they can be protected), which are generated in the project.
Result
The function assumed by or ascribed to an entity (typically a person or organisation) in a particular project. It can be used to precise or represent additional information about a relationship or property such as participation or membership. In CORDIS, it represents the participation of a person or organisation in a research project.
Role
Small and Medium Enterprises.
SME
The physical extension of entities that participate in or form part of research projects.
Site
A book authored by a student containing a formal presentations of research outputs submitted for examination in completion of a course of study at an institution of higher education, to fulfil the requirements for an academic degree. Also know as a dissertation.
Thesis
An acronym explicitly defined as the title or name of another entity (e.g. Project, Organisation, Funding Scheme, etc.).
Title Acronym
A paper, typically the realization of a research paper reporting original research findings, usually presented at a workshop and published within a workshop proceedings volume.
Workshop Paper