FAIRsharing record for: FAIR Metric - F4 - dataset - association with IVOA Catalogue Resource

This FAIRsharing record describes: 'FAIR Metric - dataset - association with IVOA Catalogue Resource' requires the association of an IVOA 'Catalogue Resource' to the dataset being evaluated. An IVOA 'Catalogue Resource' is a specific IVOA registry record for catalogues of products. Since a dataset is usually composed of several (or many) data products (usually files), the catalogue resource is a metadata table allowing for selecting data products inside a dataset. Hence, such associated resources are a key asset for findability. There are two main types of catalogue resources, namely “Observation Data Model Core” and “Europlanet Core Data Model”, respectively dedicated to celestial astronomy and solar system datasets. In order to pass, tests that implement this Metric must check 1) that a resource is associated with an IVOA identifier, and 2) that the associated IVOA registry record must be a catalogue resource, and its type (or data model) should be one of the two cited above.