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Version: 5.1.0

# Community

Research communities and research initiatives are intended as groups of people with a common research intent and can be of two types: ​research initiatives or ​research communities​:

- Research initiatives are intended to capture a view of the information space that is "research impact"-oriented, i.e. all products generated due to my research initiative;
- Research communities the latter “research activity” oriented, i.e. all products that may be of interest or related to my research initiative.

For example, the organizations supporting a research infrastructure fall in the first category, while the researchers involved in a discipline fall in the second.

## The `Community` object​

### id​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The OpenAIRE id for the community/research infrastructure, created according to the OpenAIRE entity identifier and PID mapping policy.

    "id": "00|context_____::5b7f9fa40bdc12072249204cedfa7808"

### acronym​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The acronym of the community.

    "acronym": "covid-19"

### description​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

Description of the research community/research infrastructure

    "description": "This portal provides access to publications, research data, projects and software that may be relevant to the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19). The OpenAIRE COVID-19 Gateway aggregates COVID-19 related records, links them and provides a single access point for discovery and navigation. We tag content from the OpenAIRE Graph (10,000+ data sources) and additional sources. All COVID-19 related research results are linked to people, organizations and projects, providing a contextualized navigation."

### name​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The long name of the community.

    "name": "Corona Virus Disease"

### subject​

Type: String • Cardinality: MANY

The list of the subjects associated to the research community (only appies to research communities).

    "subject": [
        "COVID19",
        "SARS-CoV",
        "HCoV-19",
        ...
    ]

### type​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The type of the community; one of `{ Research Community, Research infrastructure }`.

    "type": "Research Community"

### zenodo_community​

Type: String • Cardinality: ONE

The URL of the Zenodo community associated to the Research community/Research infrastructure.

    "zenodo_community": "https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19"