This template allows you to express a research statement as an AIDA sentence while also capturing its spatial and temporal context, and optionally linking to scientific papers and specific text extracts.
AIDA sentences are:
- Atomic: a sentence describing one thought that cannot be further broken down in a practical way
- Independent: a sentence that can stand on its own, without external references like "this effect" or "we"
- Declarative: a complete sentence ending with a full stop that could in theory be either true or false
- Absolute: a sentence describing the core of a claim ignoring the (un)certainty about its truth and ignoring how it was discovered (no "probably" or "evaluation showed that"); typically in present tense
Additionally, you can specify:
- Spatial Coverage: Where the research applies (geographic location, bounding box, or geometry)
- Temporal Coverage: When the research applies or was conducted
- Resolution: The precision of spatial and temporal measurements
- Scientific Paper: DOI or URL of the source paper
- Text Extract: Multiple specific quotes or paraphrases from the paper, each with precise location details (page, section, paragraph)
You can find more information about AIDA sentences here and about CiTO citation types here.