This version MOD 1.2 is a stable version.
MOD provides a set of terms which can be used by the ontology developers, ontology libraries (e.g., ontology registry, ontology repository, ontology portal), and in general by the Web developers to describe and publish the ontologies. The enriched description of ontologies, in turn, will help the users to search, discover, identify and select the required ontologies. This will ultimately promote the reuse of ontologies.
Anne Toulet
Biswanath Dutta
Clement Jonquet
MOD is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 For details, see here: https://github.com/sifrproject/MOD-Ontology/blob/master/LICENSE
MOD: Metadata for Ontology Description and publication
MOD: Métadonnées pour l'ontologie Description et publication
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For sample SPARQL quesries to query MOD OWL knowledge base, see here: https://github.com/sifrproject/MOD-Ontology/blob/master/SPARQL_Queries_on_MOD_1.2.3-with-instances.txt
This is MOD 1.2.
The version of the released ontology.
A representation formalism that is followed to describe knowledge in an ontology. Example includes description logics, first order logic, etc. dct: An established standard to which the described resource conforms.
conforms to knowledge representation paradigm
The parties that have expressed support or approval to this ontology.
endorsed by
The level of formality of an ontology.
has formality level
A language that is used to create an ontology.
has ontology language
The syntax followed in the creation of an ontology.
has ontology syntax
The nature of the content of the ontology.
is of type
A methodolgy follwoing which an ontology is created.
used ontology engineering methodology
The tool used for the creation of an ontology.
used ontology engineering tool
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status.
mod:accessibility (defined in mod1.0)
access rights
The method by which items are added to a collection.
accrual method
The frequency with which items are added to a collection.
accrual periodicity
The policy governing the addition of items to a collection.
accrual policy
A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful.
audience
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource.
contributor
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource.
creator
A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource.
has part
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
is part of
A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource.
license
An entity responsible for making the resource available.
publisher
A related resource.
relation
A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
rights holder
A curator who restructure the previously authored content and shape it to be appropriate for the intended representation (e.g. by normalizing the fields for being represented in a spreadsheet).
curated by
An ontology that has been evaluated by an agent.
evaluated by
A group of ontologies that the ontology is usually considered into.
group
An ontology that is used in a project.
ontology in use
ontology related to
This identifies the specified ontology as a prior version of the containing ontology, and further indicates that it is backward compatible with it.
backward compatible with
This indicates that the containing ontology is a later version of the referenced ontology, but is not backward compatible with it.
incompatible with
generalization of
An entity that is a specialization of another shares all aspects of the latter, and additionally presents more specific aspects of the same thing as the latter.
specialization of
Generation is the completion of production of a new entity by an activity. This entity did not exist before generation and becomes available for usage after this generation.
was generated by
Invalidation is the start of the destruction, cessation, or expiry of an existing entity by an activity. The entity is no longer available for use (or further invalidation) after invalidation. Any generation or usage of an entity precedes its invalidation.
was invalidated by
An ontology that is sponsored by and developed under a project.
funded by
The URI of the ontology which is described by this metadata.
uri
A short name by which an ontology is formally known.
acronym
The purpose for which the ontology was originally designed.
designed for ontology task
The domain can refer to the established topic hierarchies such as the general purpose topic hierarchy DMOZ or the domain specific topic hierarchy ACM for the computer science domain.
has domain
Representative classes in the ontology.
key classes
A keyword(s) is used to describe the content of an ontology.
keywords
The applications where the ontology is being used.
known usage
The total number of axioms in an ontology.
number of axioms
The total number of classes in an ontology.
number of classes
The total number of individuals in an ontology.
number of individuals
The total number of properties in an ontology.
number of properties
The location where the ontology can be found. It should be accessible via a URL. It can be the same as the value for URI property.
resource locator
The tracking information for the contents of the ontology.
status
A summary of the resource.
abstract
An alternative name for the resource.
alternative title
A bibliographic reference for the resource.
bibliographic citation
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant.
coverage
Date of creation of the resource.
date created
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource.
date
Date of submission of the resource.
date submitted
An account of the resource.
description
A related resource that is substantially the same as the pre-existing described resource, but in another format.
has format
A related resource that is a version, edition, or adaptation of the described resource.
has version
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.
identifier
A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format.
is format of
A language of the resource.
language
Date on which the resource was changed.
date modified
A related resource from which the described resource is derived.
source
The topic of the resource.
subject
A name given to the resource.
title
Date (often a range) of validity of a resource.
date valid
Specifies the date this resource was curated. pav:curatedBy gives the agents that performed the curation.
curated on
A reference to a resource that describes changes between this version of a vocabulary and the previous.
changes
A reference to a resource that provides an example of how this resource can be used.
example
The preferred namespace prefix to use when using terms from this vocabulary in an XML document.
preferred namespace prefix
The preferred namespace URI to use when using terms from this vocabulary in an XML document.
preferred namespace URI
Bug tracker for a project.
bug database
Mailing list home page or email address.
mailing list
Source code repository.
repository
address
The user interface (URL) where the ontology may be browsed or searched.
browsing ui
The byte size of an ontology.
byte size
city
A set of questions made to build an ontology at the design time.
competency question
The total number of data properties in an ontology.
Number Of Data Properties
Number of defined labels for any resources in an ontology (classes, properties, etc).
number of labels
The total number of object properties in an ontology.
Number Of Object Properties
postal code
This property is to provide the root class(es) of an ontology. This is automatically populated by taking the direct subclasses of owl:Thing If the ontology is also defined as a unique skos:ConceptScheme, then this property should become equivalent of skos:hasTopConcept
root classes
A set of queries (may be SPARQL, DL Queries) that are provided along with an ontology.
sample queries
state
street address
A pointer to the translated ontology(ies) for an existing ontology.
translation
A vocabulary(ies) that is used and/or referred to create the current ontology.
vocabulary used
Is used to provide a human-readable description of a resource.
comment
An annotation with the owl:deprecated annotation property and the value equal to "true"^^xsd:boolean can be used to specify that an IRI is deprecated.
deprecated
References to another OWL ontology containing definitions, whose meaning is considered to be part of the meaning of the importing ontology.
imports
This identifies the specified ontology as a prior version of the containing ontology.
prior version
The property that identifies the version IRI of an ontology.
version iri
The annotation property that provides version information for an ontology or another OWL construct
version info
Relates an instance of sd:Service to a SPARQL endpoint that implements the SPARQL Protocol service for the service. The object of the sd:endpoint property is an IRI.
endpoint
A depiction of some thing.
depiction
first name
homepage
The last name of a person.
last name
A logo representing some thing.
logo
A personal mailbox, ie. an Internet mailbox associated with exactly one owner, the first owner of this mailbox. This is a 'static inverse functional property', in that there is (across time and change) at most one individual that ever has any particular value for foaf:mbox.
personal mailbox
A name for some thing.
name
A link to the documentation page on a thing.
page
phone
Formality level
Information about a knowledge representation paradigm a particular language adheres to.
Knowledge representation paradigm
Information about the ontology engineering methodology.
A tool used to create the ontology.
Information about the language in which the ontology is implemented.
A syntax that is used to implement an ontology. Example includes RDF/XML, Notation3, n-triples, RDFa and Turtle.
This class subsumes types of ontologies according to well-known classifications in the Ontology Engineering literature.
A rate at which something recurs.
Frequency
A legal document giving official permission to do something with a Resource.
A method by which resources are added to a collection.
Method of accrual
A plan or course of action by an authority, intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters.
Policy
A statement about the intellectual property rights (IPR) held in or over a Resource, a legal document giving official permission to do something with a resource, or a statement about access rights.
Rights Statement
By ontology, we not only refers the OWL structure that respects all the conditions to be referred as a fully formalized ontology but also every ontology like structure that formalizes some knowledge (e.g., thesaurus, taxonomy, metadata vocabulary).
An activity is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or with entities; it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, relocating, using, or generating entities.
An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact).
Agent
An organization.
Organization
A person.
Person
A project (a collective endeavour of some kind).
Project