About Voc4Cat¶

Community¶

The vocabulary and tooling are a community effort. See the project contributors listing and the Zenodo record for citation metadata and contributor details:

Project contributors on GitHub
Zenodo record (includes authors and contributor metadata)

Maintenance and editorial decisions are handled by the Voc4Cat curators group. For maintainer contact or editorial queries, please open an issue in the Voc4Cat repository.

Citing Voc4Cat¶

If you use Voc4Cat in publications or software, please cite the deposited vocabulary either using the version-independent general citation

Voc4Cat – A SKOS Vocabulary for the Catalysis Disciplines. nfdi4cat/voc4cat. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8313340

or (preferred) the exact version that you used, e.g.

Linke, D., Moustakas, N., Doerr, M., Schumann, J., Götte, M., Borgelt, H., Nentwich, M., Terboven, C., & Flecken, F. (2025). Voc4Cat – A SKOS Vocabulary for the Catalysis Disciplines, Release 2025-10-14 (v2025-10-14). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17351357

For the most recent citation, visit the general Zenodo page.

Guiding principles¶

Voc4Cat follows a set of guiding principles – openness of data, openness of code, and open infrastructure – to ensure the vocabulary remains discoverable, reusable and maintainable over time.

A recent paper refers to these underlying ideas as “O3” (open data, open code, open infrastructure). For more see C. Hoyt and B. Gyori, 2024.

License¶

Vocabularies in this repository are released under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0). See LICENSE for details.
The repository template for maintaining vocabularies like Voc4Cat is also released under CC0-1.0 as documented in nfdi4cat/voc4cat-template.
The voc4cat Python package is released under 3-Clause BSD License (BSD-3-Clause) as documented in its repository nfdi4cat/voc4cat-tool.

Funding¶

The creation and maintenance of Voc4Cat has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the project “NFDI4Cat - NFDI for Catalysis-Related Sciences” (DFG project no. 441926934), within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) programme of the Joint Science Conference (GWK).