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The FAIR Digital Object Framework Ontology (FDOF-O) is an OWL ontology designed to support the semantic annotation of FAIR Information Objects and FAIR Media Objects enabling application-specific requirements.
FDOF-O: FAIR Digital Object Framework Ontology
fdof
Identifies the encoding format of the FAIR Media Object in terms of some well-defined media type, such as an IANA media types.
has encoding format
hasEncodingFormat
Identifies the FAIR Information Object Type that defines the complaince requirements the FAIR Information Object adheres to in some specific implementation of the FAIR principles.
has information object type
hasInformationObjectType
Identifies a fdof:MetadataRecord named graph that aggregates all triples of a metadata record of the fdof:DigitalObject. For example, the named graph meta:fdofMetadata is a fdof:FAIRMetadataRecord about <https://w3id.org/fdof/ontology>.
has metadata
hasMetadata
Identifies an identifier of an object reified as a fdof:Identifier For example, a hypothetical object <https://w3id.org/fdof/ontology#identifier> that represents an identifier of <https://w3id.org/fdof/ontology>.
is identified by
isIdentifiedBy
Identifies a fdof:MediaObject that is a materialization of the fdof:InformationObject. For example, the <https://w3id.org/fdof/ontology> is materialized by fdof:fdofTtl, which is a Turtle file. This is an example of a complete materialization, but partial materializations and equivalent materializations are both allowed.
is materialized by
isMaterializedBy
Identifies the fdof:DigitalObject the fdof:MetadataRecord is about.
is metadata of
isMetadataOf
Identifies a fdof:InformationObject it materializes. Inverse property of fdof:isMaterializedBy. Similarly to the materialization of a fdof:InformationObject into one or more fdof:MediaObject, a fdof:MediaObject can also materilize a portion of or several fdof:InformationObject.
materializes
Determines the globally unique, persistent and resolvable identifier of a FAIR Digital Object in a literal representation.
globally unique, persistent and resolvable identifier
gupri
Determines the identifier of an Identified Digital Object in a literal representation.
identifier
FAIR Information Object Type is second-order type that defines the requirements of an implementation of the FAIR principles and that are fulfilled by its instances.
FAIR Information Object Type
FAIRInformationObjectType
Dataset is a type of Information Object designed to collect multiple Data Items
Dataset
DigitalObject
Digital Object
Digital Object is a category of Object characterized for being represented in a digital format. Examples of Digital objects include media objects (e.g., a digital image) and information object (e.g., an entry on a SQL table).
FAIR Digital Objects represent informational entitied present in digital space that follow the FAIR principles. FAIR Digital Objects must be identified by globally unique, persistent and resolvable identifiers and should be described by rich metadata.
FAIRDigitalObject
FAIR Digital Object
FAIRInformationObject
FAIR Information Object is a specialised type of FAIR Digital Object that represents units of information. FAIR Information Objects are materialised by at least one FAIR Media Object.
FAIR Information Object
FAIR Media Object is a bit sequence which encodes the informational content of at least on FAIR Information Object. FAIR Media Objects serialise characteristics that are proper to its related media encoding type.
FAIR Media Object
FAIRMediaObject
FAIRMetadataRecord
FAIR Metadata Record
FAIR Metadata Record is type of FAIR Digital Information Object that collects Date Items about some FAIR Information Object.
Globally Unique, Persistent and Resolvable Identifier (GUPRI) specialises the concept of identifier by requiring the identifier to be globally unique, persistent and resolvable as per FAIR principles F1 and A1.
GUPRI
GloballyUnique, Persistent and Resolvable Identifier
IdentifiedDigitalObject
Identified Digital Object
Identified Digital Object is a type of Digital Object that bear an Identifier.
Identifier
Identifier is a type of entity that uniquelly identifies an Object with a certain scope.
InformationObject
Information Object is a type of Object that represents some informational content and is materialized in one or more Media Objects.
Information Object
Media Object is a type of Object characterized by a certain Encoding Format and that serves as means for the materialization of one or more Information Objects.
Media Object
MediaObject
Metadata Record
Metadata Record is type of Dataset that collects Date Items about some Object.
MetadataRecord