Type of Relationship

Once you have chosen an organisation, you will need to describe how the organisation is related to your resource. You can choose from

• maintains: When the organisation is directly involved in the maintenance of your resource

• collaborates on: When the organisation has a collaboration with this resource, but is not directly involved in its maintenance.

• associated with: When the organisation is related to your resource in a more general way. This is our most generic relationship for organisations, and should be used with care. It is especially useful when a broader group, such as a Research Infrastructure, is involved with a resource in a meaningful way but is not directly maintaining, collaborating or funding that resource.

• funds: When the organisation provides funding to your resource

• undefined: Only use this option if no other role is suitable. In this case, please contact us with details of the relationship between your resource and the organisation.

Sometimes an organisation performs more than one role. To model this in your record, include the same organisation multiple times, once per role of the organisation.