Documentation: https://nerc-ceh.github.io/digital-objects-ontology/
Rich metadata for diverse research outputs (articles, datasets, methods, etc.) including descriptions of the projects which allowed the creation of the outputs, the grants that funded the projects, the environmental monitoring facilities, programmes and networks that provided the data, the people and organisations who contributed to the projects and outputs, and their roles.
Four modules from external ontologies: FRAPO, FDRI, PRO and SCoRO.
Also heavily relies on PROV-O and FOAF.
Includes a handful of new predicates, for which the namespace https://digital.ceh.ac.uk/ontology/doo is used.
This ontology works hand-in-hand with the Environmental DCAT Application Profile (Env-DCAT-AP) to enable rich metadata descriptions of datasets.
This ontology is compatible with work being done on modelling workflows/method-type things and will be compatible with work on modelling observed properties in datasets.
In the diagram below, classes that are coloured in are defined in more detail (i.e. the object properties and datatype properties that apply to them) elsewhere, either in the Env-DCAT-AP or in the Method Metadata Ontology.
Diagrams are made with draw.io using Chowlk Visual Notation, plus custom notation (see legend). The colour scheme is consistent across this repository, https://github.com/NERC-CEH/env-dcat-ap and https://github.com/NERC-CEH/workflows-ontology.
