definition
A statement or formal explanation of the meaning of a concept.
The ISO 15511 code for the repository.
Maintenance Agency Code
Scope and Content
Date of creation of the resource.
Date Created
Other Finding Aids
Use Restrictions
The method by which items are added to a collection.
Accrual Method
has narrower transitive
skos:narrowerTransitive is a transitive superproperty of skos:narrower.
By convention, skos:narrowerTransitive is not used to make assertions. Rather, the properties can be used to draw inferences about the transitive closure of the hierarchical relation, which is useful e.g. when implementing a simple query expansion algorithm in a search application.
Alternate Forms Available
Acquisitions
The date of death of the person.
Date of Death
A book, article, or other documentary resource.
Bibliographic Resource
A document conforming to the Encoded Archival Description standard.
EAD Document
The frequency with which items are added to a collection.
Accrual Periodicity
A legal document giving official permission to do something with a Resource.
License Document
Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource.
An account of the resource.
Description
The date, represented as a typed literal, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
Date created or accumulated
A narrative or chronology that places archival materials in context by providing information about their creator(s). A finding aid may contain several such narratives or chronologies pertaining to different archival materials and their creators.
Biographical History
The title of a person who is the focus of the concept
Title
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Universal Decimal Classification.
UDC
Event
"Something that happened," as might be reported in a news article or explained by a historian.
An event consists of some temporal and spatial boundaries subjectively imposed on the flux of reality or imagination, that we wish to treat as an entity for the purposes of making statements about it. In particular, we may wish to make statements that relate people, places, or things to an event.
Note that, unlike some defintions of "event," this definition does not specify that an event involves a change of state, nor does it attempt to distinguish events from processes or states.
This term is intended to be used with non-literal values as defined in the DCMI Abstract Model (http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/). As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage Board is seeking a way to express this intention with a formal range declaration.
Is Replaced By
A related resource that supplants, displaces, or supersedes the described resource.
is in mapping relation with
Relates two concepts coming, by convention, from different schemes, and that have comparable meanings
These concept mapping relations mirror semantic relations, and the data model defined below is similar (with the exception of skos:exactMatch) to the data model defined for semantic relations. A distinct vocabulary is provided for concept mapping relations, to provide a convenient way to differentiate links within a concept scheme from links between concept schemes. However, this pattern of usage is not a formal requirement of the SKOS data model, and relies on informal definitions of best practice.
A page about a topic of interest to this person.
A work info homepage of some person; a page about their work for some organization.
LOCAH Project
A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource.
Has Part
Location of Originals
Indicates a homepage of the service provide for this online account.
The ISO 3166-1 code for the country of the repository.
Country Code
A repository responsible for the maintenance of the archival finding aid.
Maintenance Agency
Access Restrictions
An organization funding a project or person.
Examples of Agent include person, organization, and software agent.
A resource that acts or has the power to act.
Agent
Other
A resource which the agent makes available.
Is Publisher Of
has broader
Relates a concept to a concept that is more general in meaning.
Broader concepts are typically rendered as parents in a concept hierarchy (tree).
By convention, skos:broader is only used to assert an immediate (i.e. direct) hierarchical link between two conceptual resources.
has member
Relates a collection to one of its members.
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.
The described resource may be derived from the related resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
A related resource from which the described resource is derived.
Source
Concept Scheme
A set of concepts, optionally including statements about semantic relationships between those concepts.
A concept scheme may be defined to include concepts from different sources.
Thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, 'folksonomies', and other types of controlled vocabulary are all examples of concept schemes. Concept schemes are also embedded in glossaries and terminologies.
A material thing.
Physical Resource
A related resource.
Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
Relation
has top concept
Relates, by convention, a concept scheme to a concept which is topmost in the broader/narrower concept hierarchies for that scheme, providing an entry point to these hierarchies.
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
A weblog of some thing (whether person, group, company etc.).
A file format or physical medium.
Media Type
Location
Examples of Agent Class include groups seen as classes, such as students, women, charities, lecturers.
A group of agents.
Agent Class
A list of subunits of the resource.
Table Of Contents
RFC 5646 obsoletes RFC 4646.
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 5646 for the identification of languages.
RFC 5646
has broader match
skos:broadMatch is used to state a hierarchical mapping link between two conceptual resources in different concept schemes.
A sphere of activity or process.
Function
Date Copyrighted
Date of copyright.
A number of archival boxes
Archival Box
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant.
Spatial topic and spatial applicability may be a named place or a location specified by its geographic coordinates. Temporal topic may be a named period, date, or date range. A jurisdiction may be a named administrative entity or a geographic place to which the resource applies. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]. Where appropriate, named places or time periods can be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges.
Coverage
The set of conceptual resources specified by the National Library of Medicine Classification.
NLM
The policy governing the addition of items to a collection.
Accrual Policy
The start date, represented as a typed literal, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
Date created or accumulated (start)
A checksum for the DNA of some thing. Joke.
An agent that provides access to the resource.
Access Provided By
A document describing an archival resource.
Finding Aid
Indicates the class of individuals that are a member of a Group
has related
Relates a concept to a concept with which there is an associative semantic relationship.
skos:related is disjoint with skos:broaderTransitive
A resource which represents the archival resource, such as an image of a text page, a transcription of text, an audio or video clip, or an aggregation of such resources.
An archival resourcce represented by the resource.
Is Represented By
A person known by this person (indicating some level of reciprocated interaction between the parties).
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource.
Creator
Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service.
The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource.
A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation.
Provenance
Aplan comment, in the tradition of finger and '.plan' files.
The size of the archival resource.
Extent
An archival resource that the narrative or chronology places in context by providing information about their creator(s).
Is Biographical History For
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Library of Congress Classification.
LCC
A name given to the resource.
The set of media types specified by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
IMT
A location, period of time, or jurisdiction.
Location, Period, or Jurisdiction
Concept
An idea or notion; a unit of thought.
Is Origination Of
An archival resource for which the agent is responsible for the creation or accumulation.
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
Medium
Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available.
Date Available
change note
A note about a modification to a concept.
preferred label
The preferred lexical label for a resource, in a given language.
A resource has no more than one value of skos:prefLabel per language tag, and no more than one value of skos:prefLabel without language tag.
The range of skos:prefLabel is the class of RDF plain literals.
skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel and skos:hiddenLabel are pairwise disjoint properties.
A number of metres
Metre
A related resource that is substantially the same as the pre-existing described resource, but in another format.
Has Format
Indicates an account held by this agent.
The LOCAH RDF Vocabulary
Accruals
A foaf:LabelProperty is any RDF property with texual values that serve as labels.
Examples include written, spoken, sign, and computer languages.
A system of signs, symbols, sounds, gestures, or rules used in communication.
Linguistic System
Bibliography
Recorded information in any form or medium, created or received and maintained, by an organization or person(s) in the transaction of business or the conduct of affairs, and maintained for its long-term research value. An archival resource may be an individual item, such as a letter or photograph, or (more commonly) some aggregation of such items managed and described as a unit.
Archival Resource
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Dewey Decimal Classification.
DDC
An indicator of the part of an archival collection constituted by an archival resource, whether it is the whole collection or a sub-section of it.
Level
HTML
A number of files
File
An event that resulted in the creation or accumulation of an archival resource.
Creation
has broader transitive
skos:broaderTransitive is a transitive superproperty of skos:broader.
By convention, skos:broaderTransitive is not used to make assertions. Rather, the properties can be used to draw inferences about the transitive closure of the hierarchical relation, which is useful e.g. when implementing a simple query expansion algorithm in a search application.
Examples include the formats defined by the list of Internet Media Types.
A digital resource format.
File Format
This property relates a span of time that cannot be precisely located in a chronological series to another span of time that can be precisely located, thus asserting that the latter is an approximation of the former.
An temporal relation expressing nearness in time.
circa
an interval of time that can be precisely described using calendar dates and clock times.
notation
A notation, also known as classification code, is a string of characters such as "T58.5" or "303.4833" used to uniquely identify a concept within the scope of a given concept scheme.
By convention, skos:notation is used with a typed literal in the object position of the triple.
has narrower match
skos:narrowMatch is used to state a hierarchical mapping link between two conceptual resources in different concept schemes.
hidden label
A lexical label for a resource that should be hidden when generating visual displays of the resource, but should still be accessible to free text search operations.
The range of skos:hiddenLabel is the class of RDF plain literals.
RFC 4646 obsoletes RFC 3066.
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 4646 for the identification of languages.
RFC 4646
A rate at which something recurs.
Frequency
Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible.
A bibliographic reference for the resource.
Bibliographic Citation
A related resource that is supplanted, displaced, or superseded by the described resource.
Replaces
The set of regions in space defined by their geographic coordinates according to the DCMI Box Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Box
is top concept in scheme
Relates a concept to the concept scheme that it is a top level concept of.
An agent that manages the resource.
Is Administered By
This property relates any thing (typically a media object) to an event which it illustrates, documents or comments upon.
illustrate
an event illustrated by some thing (typically a media object)
DCMI Metadata Terms - other
SKOS Vocabulary
Participants in W3C's Semantic Web Deployment Working Group.
An RDF vocabulary for describing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, 'folksonomies', other types of controlled vocabulary, and also concept schemes embedded in glossaries and terminologies.
The date, represented as a string, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
Temporal Coverage
The three-letter alphabetic codes listed in ISO639-2 for the representation of names of languages.
ISO 639-2
Date (often a range) of validity of a resource.
Date Valid
has related match
skos:relatedMatch is used to state an associative mapping link between two conceptual resources in different concept schemes.
RFC 3066 has been obsoleted by RFC 4646.
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 3066 for the identification of languages.
RFC 3066
A resource which the agent manages.
Administers
The size of an archival resource.
an abstract region of space (e.g. a geospatial point or region) that is where an event happened.
in space
Note that a statement that relates an event to a region of space using this property only asserts that an event occurred somewhere within the region and does not assert that it occurred everywhere within the region.
This property relates an event to some subjectively imposed spatial boundaries, i.e. a region of space. An event can be related to only one such region of space.
an agent involved in an event.
This property relates an event to anything with agency, such as a (legal or natural) person, a group, an organization, a computational agent, etc. It does not imply any causal relationship, influence, intentionality, etc.
involved agent
The birthday of this Agent, represented in mm-dd string form, eg. '12-31'.
Processing
Members
The size or duration of the resource.
A media type or extent.
Media Type or Extent
This document describes an ontology for publishing descriptions of historical events as Linked Data, and for mapping between other event-related vocabularies and ontologies.
LODE: An ontology for Linking Open Descriptions of Events
The set of identifiers constructed according to the generic syntax for Uniform Resource Identifiers as specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
URI
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource.
Date may be used to express temporal information at any level of granularity. Recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as the W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF].
Date
Examples include paper, canvas, or DVD.
A physical material or carrier.
Physical Medium
The set of dates and times constructed according to the W3C Date and Time Formats Specification.
W3C-DTF
An indicator of the part of an archival collection constituted by an archival resource.
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status.
Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
An event corresponding to the activity of an agent.
Floruit
A category of archival material, defined either by style or technique of intellectual content, order of information or object function, or physical characteristics.
Genre or Form
RDF/XML
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) RDF vocabulary, described using W3C RDF Schema and the Web Ontology Language.
A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of a resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation.
Provenance Statement
The set of places specified by the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
TGN
The extent or range of judicial, law enforcement, or other authority.
Jurisdiction
The set of classes specified by the DCMI Type Vocabulary, used to categorize the nature or genre of the resource.
DCMI Type Vocabulary
A workplace homepage of some person; the homepage of an organization they work for.
Language
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646 [RFC4646].
A language of the resource.
Epithet
A phone, specified using fully qualified tel: URI scheme (refs: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html#tel).
A related resource that requires the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence.
Is Required By
An archival finding aid of which the EAD document is an encoding.
Encoding Of
A thing depicted in this representation.
A number of pages
Page
The set of three-letter codes listed in ISO 639-3 for the representation of names of languages.
ISO 639-3
The surname of a person who is the focus of the concept
Surname
A number of envelopes
Envelope
A number of volumes
Volume
Note
The date of birth of the person.
Date of Birth
is in scheme
Relates a resource (for example a concept) to a concept scheme in which it is included.
A concept may be a member of more than one concept scheme.
history note
A note about the past state/use/meaning of a concept.
editorial note
A note for an editor, translator or maintainer of the vocabulary.
A short informal nickname characterising an agent (includes login identifiers, IRC and other chat nicknames).
Is Version Of
A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation.
Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format.
Appraisal
An established standard to which the described resource conforms.
Conforms To
Date Issued
Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource.
is in semantic relation with
Links a concept to a concept related by meaning.
This property should not be used directly, but as a super-property for all properties denoting a relationship of meaning between concepts.
A summary of the resource.
Abstract
has member list
Relates an ordered collection to the RDF list containing its members.
For any resource, every item in the list given as the value of the skos:memberList property is also a value of the skos:member property.
A method by which resources are added to a collection.
Method of Accrual
has exact match
skos:exactMatch is used to link two concepts, indicating a high degree of confidence that the concepts can be used interchangeably across a wide range of information retrieval applications. skos:exactMatch is a transitive property, and is a sub-property of skos:closeMatch.
skos:exactMatch is disjoint with each of the properties skos:broadMatch and skos:relatedMatch.
A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful.
Audience
A group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.
Family
References
A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource.
An agent responsible for the creation or accumulation of the archival resource.
Origination
scope note
A note that helps to clarify the meaning and/or the use of a concept.
Alternative Title
The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific.
An alternative name for the resource.
alternative label
An alternative lexical label for a resource.
Acronyms, abbreviations, spelling variants, and irregular plural/singular forms may be included among the alternative labels for a concept. Mis-spelled terms are normally included as hidden labels (see skos:hiddenLabel).
The range of skos:altLabel is the class of RDF plain literals.
Identifier
Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.
has narrower
Relates a concept to a concept that is more specific in meaning.
Narrower concepts are typically rendered as children in a concept hierarchy (tree).
Instructional Method will typically include ways of presenting instructional materials or conducting instructional activities, patterns of learner-to-learner and learner-to-instructor interactions, and mechanisms by which group and individual levels of learning are measured. Instructional methods include all aspects of the instruction and learning processes from planning and implementation through evaluation and feedback.
A process, used to engender knowledge, attitudes and skills, that the described resource is designed to support.
Instructional Method
A homepage of a school attended by the person.
A textual geekcode for this person, see http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html
Date Submitted
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).
Is Format Of
A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format.
Mediator
An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful.
In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver.
A plan or course of action by an authority, intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters.
Policy
A process that is used to engender knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
Method of Instruction
The underlying or 'focal' entity associated with some SKOS-described concept.
A number of papers
Paper
Examples include a number of pages, a specification of length, width, and breadth, or a period in hours, minutes, and seconds.
A dimension or extent, or a time taken to play or execute.
Size or Duration
This property relates an event to some meaningful place, which may have a name (e.g. "Paris") or may be defined relative to some other entity or entities (e.g. "the unincorporated area between Carson and Harbor Gateway"). An event may be related to more than one such place.
at place
a named or relatively specified place that is where an event happened.
A project this person has previously worked on.
note
A general note, for any purpose.
This property may be used directly, or as a super-property for more specific note types.
An institution or agency responsible for providing access to archival materials.
Repository
A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource.
Is Referenced By
The set of tags, constructed according to RFC 1766, for the identification of languages.
RFC 1766
The set of points in space defined by their geographic coordinates according to the DCMI Point Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Point
has close match
skos:closeMatch is used to link two concepts that are sufficiently similar that they can be used interchangeably in some information retrieval applications. In order to avoid the possibility of "compound errors" when combining mappings across more than two concept schemes, skos:closeMatch is not declared to be a transitive property.
A related resource that is required by the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence.
Requires
A location that something is based near, for some broadly human notion of near.
The primary topic of some page or document.
Rights
Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights.
Information about rights held in and over the resource.
Typically, the subject will be represented using keywords, key phrases, or classification codes. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.
The topic of the resource.
Subject
An interval of time that is named or defined by its start and end dates.
Period of Time
Related Material
The sha1sum of the URI of an Internet mailbox associated with exactly one owner, the first owner of the mailbox.
A document that this thing is the primary topic of.
A literal representation of the content of the document.
Body
A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
Rights Holder
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Spatial Coverage
An entity responsible for making the resource available.
Publisher
Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service.
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
This property relates an event to any physical, social, or mental object or substance. It does not imply any causal relationship or influence or any other kind of explanatory relationship such as creation, destruction, etc.
involved
a (physical, social, or mental) object involved in an event.
A resource to which the agent provides access.
Provides Access To
The set of labeled concepts specified by the Medical Subject Headings.
MeSH
The end date, represented as a typed literal, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
Date created or accumulated (end)
An image that can be used to represent some thing (ie. those depictions which are particularly representative of something, eg. one's photo on a homepage).
A project (a collective endeavour of some kind).
Indicates the name (identifier) associated with this online account.
A number of folders
Folder
The forename of a person who is the focus of the concept
Forename
A spatial region or named place.
An archival finding aid for which the repository is responsible for the maintenance.
Is Maintenance Agency Of
Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME].
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource.
Format
The set of labeled concepts specified by the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
LCSH
A number of items
Item
A tipjar document for this agent, describing means for payment and reward.
Custodial History
Name
A link to the publications of this person.
A concept adjudged by a cataloguer to have an association with an archival resource which they consider useful for the purposes of discovering that resource.
Associated With
at time
Equivalent definitions from other ontologies: * C4DM Event ontology: "Relates an event to a time object, classifying a time region (either instantaneous or having an extent)."
This property relates an event to some subjectively imposed temporal boundaries, i.e. a span of time. An event can be related to only one such span of time.
an abstract instant or interval of time that is when an event happened.
A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource.
License
Type
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the DCMI Type Vocabulary [DCMITYPE]. To describe the file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource, use the Format element.
The nature or genre of the resource.
Ordered Collection
An ordered collection of concepts, where both the grouping and the ordering are meaningful.
Ordered collections can be used where you would like a set of concepts to be displayed in a specific order, and optionally under a 'node label'.
The set of codes listed in ISO 3166-1 for the representation of names of countries.
ISO 3166
A narrative or chronology that places archival materials in context by providing information about their creator(s).
Has Biographical History
An EAD document that is an encoding of the archival finding aid.
Encoded As
A number of cubic metres
Cubic Metre
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource.
Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organization, or a service.
Contributor
A string expressing what the user is happy for the general public (normally) to know about their current activity.
An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact).
Collection
A meaningful collection of concepts.
Labelled collections can be used where you would like a set of concepts to be displayed under a 'node label' in the hierarchy.
A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated.
Standard
The gender of this Agent (typically but not necessarily 'male' or 'female').
Physical and Technical Requirements
example
An example of the use of a concept.
A Myers Briggs (MBTI) personality classification.
The set of time intervals defined by their limits according to the DCMI Period Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Period
Dates
Date Modified
Date on which the resource was changed.
Date of acceptance of the resource.
Date Accepted
Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal).
A class of entity, defined in terms of progression through an educational or training context, for which the described resource is intended.
Audience Education Level
Has Version
A related resource that is a version, edition, or adaptation of the described resource.