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Slot: preferredPrefix

The official prefix of an ontology or vocabulary namespace according to the W3C specification (e.g. dcterms for http://purl.org/dc/terms/.

This metadatum is also recommended as required by:

  • https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/ontology-metadata/pull/106#issuecomment-1117383852
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/meta/context.jsonld
  • https://w3id.org/mod/2.0
  • https://lov.linkeddata.es/Recommendations_Vocabulary_Design.pdf
  • https://dgarijo.github.io/Widoco/doc/bestPractices/index-en.html
  • https://github.com/agroportal/fairness/blob/master/doc/results/FAIR-questions.md
  • Best Practices for Implementing FAIR Vocabularies and Ontologies on the Web

URI: vann:preferredNamespacePrefix

Applicable Classes

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

Properties

  • Range: String
  • Required: True

Comments

  • The ontology should declare its own preferred prefix. The prefix should be unique. You can check whether an ontology prefix is already in use on services like prefix.cc or bioregistry.io.
  • 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: preferredPrefix
description: "The official prefix of an ontology or vocabulary namespace according\
  \ to the [W3C specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/#NT-NCName)\
  \ (e.g. **dcterms** for [http://purl.org/dc/terms/](http://purl.org/dc/terms/).\n\
  \nThis metadatum is also recommended as required by:\n\n  * https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/ontology-metadata/pull/106#issuecomment-1117383852\n\
  \  * http://purl.obolibrary.org/meta/context.jsonld\n  * https://w3id.org/mod/2.0\n\
  \  * https://lov.linkeddata.es/Recommendations_Vocabulary_Design.pdf\n  * https://dgarijo.github.io/Widoco/doc/bestPractices/index-en.html\n\
  \  * https://github.com/agroportal/fairness/blob/master/doc/results/FAIR-questions.md\n\
  \  * [Best Practices for Implementing FAIR Vocabularies and Ontologies on the Web\
  \ ](http://dgarijo.com/papers/best_practices2020.pdf)\n"
comments:
- The ontology should declare its own preferred prefix. The prefix should be unique.
  You can check whether an ontology prefix is already in use on services like [prefix.cc](https://prefix.cc)
  or [bioregistry.io](https://bioregistry.io).
- 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:
- idot:preferredPrefix
rank: 1000
slot_uri: vann:preferredNamespacePrefix
alias: preferredPrefix
domain_of:
- RequiredMetadata
range: string
required: true