--- sidebar_position: 6 --- # Community (Initiative) 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_ Main entity identifier, created according to the [OpenAIRE entity identifier and PID mapping policy](entity-identifiers). TODO