Provenance, Authoring and Versioning Ontology Specification

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Date: 2008/12/04 23:30:00
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Authors:
Paolo Ciccarese - Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Contributors:
Tim Clark - Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Wu - Alzheimer Research Forum
Marco Ocana - Balboa Systems Inc.

Copyright © 2007-2008 by Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

The Provenance, Authoring and Versioning Ontology has been developed as part of the SWAN ontologies in the context of the SWAN project.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. This copyright applies to the SWAN Ontology Specification and accompanying documentation in RDF. Regarding underlying technology, SWAN uses W3C's RDF technology, an open Web standard that can be freely used by anyone.

This visual layout and structure of the specification was adapted from the FOAF Vocabulary Specification and the SIOC Core Ontology Specification by Paolo Ciccarese.

Abstract

SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) is an interdisciplinary project to develop a practical, common, semantically-structured, framework for biomedical discourse initially applied, but not limited, to significant problems in Alzheimer Disease (AD) research. The SWAN ontology of scientific discourse has been developed in the context of building a series of applications for biomedical researchers, as well as extensive discussions and collaborations with the larger bio-ontologies community.

Status of this document

This specification is currently an evolving document and it is not yet complete.

Table of contents

1. Introduction

The Provenance, Authoring and Versioning (PAV) ontology implements basic provenance, authoring and versioning.

1.1. Terminology and notation

The keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Namespace URIs of the general form "http://www.example.com/" represent some application-dependent or context-dependent URI as defined in RFC 2396.

The XML Namespace URIs that MUST be used by implementations of this specification is: http://swan.mindinformatics.org/ontologies/1.2/pav/

2. Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology at a glance

An alphabetical index of Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology terms, by class (concepts) and by property (relationships, attributes), are given below. All the terms are hyperlinked to their detailed description for quick reference.

Properties: | acceptedOn | authoredBy | authors | contributedBy | contributors | createdBy | createdOn | curatedBy | curators | importedBy | importedFirstOn | importedFromSource | importedLastOn | importedOn | importedWithId | lastUpdateBy | lastUpdateOn | previousVersion | publishedBy | publishedOn | sourceAccessedOn | sourceFirstAccessedOn | sourceLastAccessedOn | submittedBy | submittedOn | versionNumber |


3. Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology overview

The relationships belonging to the PAV (Provenance, Authoring and Versioning) ontology can be grouped in three categories:

Provenance Authoring Versioning

4. Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology description

(TO BE COMPLETED)

5. Cross-reference for Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology classes and properties

» Property pav:acceptedOn

acceptedOn - Date of acceptance of the resource.

Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

Examples of resources to which an Acceptance Date may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). In the SWAN application, the acceptance date can be related to a DiscourseElement DiscourseElement that has been accepted to be published in the public space.

» Property pav:authoredBy

authoredBy - An entity that gives birth to the original work

sub-property-of: pav:contributedBy

» Property pav:authors

authors - The list of entities that gave birth to the original work

sub-property-of: pav:contributors

» Property pav:contributedBy

contributedBy - An entity that helped in creating of the resource.

» Property pav:contributors

contributors - A list of entities that helped in creating the resource

» Property pav:createdBy

createdBy - An entity primary responsible for making the resource.

» Property pav:createdOn

createdOn - The date of creation of the resource.

Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:curatedBy

curatedBy - An entity primary responsible for verifying the quality of the resource.

sub-property-of: pav:contributedBy

» Property pav:curators

curators - A list of entities primary responsible for verifying the quality of the resource.

sub-property-of: pav:contributors

» Property pav:importedBy

importedBy - An entity responsible for importing the data from an external source.

» Property pav:importedFirstOn

importedFirstOn - The date of the first import of the resource.

sub-property-of: pav:importedOn
Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:importedFromSource

importedFromSource - The original source of the resource (PubMed, UniProt...).

» Property pav:importedLastOn

importedLastOn - The date of the last import of the resource.

sub-property-of: pav:importedOn
Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:importedOn

importedOn - The date of the import of the resource.

Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:importedWithId

importedWithId - The unique identifier of the resource in the source environment.

» Property pav:lastUpdateBy

lastUpdateBy - The actor that updated the resource last.

» Property pav:lastUpdateOn

lastUpdateOn - The date of the last update of the resource.

Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:previousVersion

previousVersion - The previous version of the resource.

» Property pav:publishedBy

publishedBy - An entity responsible for making the resource available.

» Property pav:publishedOn

publishedOn - The date of publishing.

Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:sourceAccessedOn

sourceAccessedOn - The date when the original source has been accessed to create the resource.

Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:sourceFirstAccessedOn

sourceFirstAccessedOn - The date when the original source has been accessed to create the resource.

sub-property-of: pav:sourceAccessedOn
Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:sourceLastAccessedOn

sourceLastAccessedOn - The date when the original source has been last accessed and verified.

sub-property-of: pav:sourceAccessedOn
Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:submittedBy

submittedBy - The entity which submitted a resource to any sort of publication process.

» Property pav:submittedOn

submittedOn - Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal) or a discourse element in the case of swan scientific discourse.

Range: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

» Property pav:versionNumber

versionNumber - The version of the resource.

6. Pellet reasoner validation results

OWL Species: Lite
DL Expressivity: ALH(D)
Consistent: Yes
Time: 1251 ms (Loading: 1163 Species Validation: 60 Consistency: 23 Classification: 5 )

Classification:

owl:Thing

For questions or suggestions related to ontology and specification documents: paolo.ciccarese at gmail.com