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Slot: contributor

The ontology should state who was or is contributing to its development. It is recommended to not only provide the contributor's names but also to link to their ORCID, ROR or Wikidata profiles if available. Using an IRI to identify the creator is a must when using the dcterms:contributor predicat. For a literal representations of a creator the predicate dc:contributor is recommended to be in line with DCMI specs.

This metadatum is also recommended as required by:

URI: dcterms:contributor

Inheritance

Applicable Classes

Name Description
RecommendedMetadata A mixin that provides the recommended properties needed to index an ontology ...
Ontology An OWL ontology
SkosConceptScheme A SKOS vocabulary serialized in RDF using the skos:ConceptScheme

Properties

  • Range: Uriorcurie

  • Multivalued: True

  • Recommended: True

Comments

  • For the RDF implementation, we recommend using the URI provided here as a standard, but the URI(s) listed under See Also might be used as alternative for this predicate.

See Also

LinkML Source

name: contributor
description: "The ontology should state who was or is contributing to its development.\
  \ It is recommended to not only provide the contributor's names but also to link\
  \ to their ORCID, ROR or Wikidata profiles if available. Using an IRI to identify\
  \ the creator is a must when using the dcterms:contributor predicat. For a literal\
  \ representations of a creator the predicate dc:contributor is recommended to be\
  \ in line with DCMI specs.\n\nThis metadatum is also recommended as required by:\n\
  \n  * https://w3id.org/mod/2.0\n  * https://lov.linkeddata.es/Recommendations_Vocabulary_Design.pdf\n\
  \  * https://github.com/owlcs/miro/blob/master/miro.md#c2-development-community\n\
  \  * https://dgarijo.github.io/Widoco/doc/bestPractices/index-en.html\n  * [Best\
  \ Practices for Implementing FAIR Vocabularies and Ontologies on the Web ](http://dgarijo.com/papers/best_practices2020.pdf)\n"
comments:
- For the RDF implementation, we recommend using the URI provided here as a standard,
  but the URI(s) listed under **See Also** might be used as alternative for this predicate.
from_schema: http://terminology.tib.eu/schema
see_also:
- prov:wasAttributedTo
rank: 1000
is_a: provenanceProperty
slot_uri: dcterms:contributor
multivalued: true
alias: contributor
domain_of:
- RecommendedMetadata
range: uriorcurie
required: false
recommended: true