Mapping Definition File

Mapping definition File

The mapping file (mapping.txt) is used as indicated by its name to match a term chosen by the user during entry with another term from an ontology or a thesaurus and therefore to obtain a URL which will be used for referencing. It can be used for each metadata crosswalk requiring such a mapping (e.g. to the Dataverse, Zenodo or JSON-LD format).

The role of this definition file is illustrated with the figure above

The file must have 5 columns with headers defined as follows:

• column 1 - CVname : name of the mapping entry
• column 2 - CVtype : type of the CV target (by default, must be either ontoportal, skosmos or ols)
• column 3 - CVurl : URL of the corresponding web API
• column 4 - CVterm : name of the thesaurus or the ontology list separated by a comma
• column 5 - CVlang : the chosen language (mainly for thesauri)

Note that a corresponding <CVtype>.inc file must be located under web/inc/mapping.

Below an example of Mapping definition file (TSV)