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Slot: purl

The PURL of an ontology is its persistent identifier. It is usually used by within the ontology to state: <https://www.domain.de/myOntology> rdf:type owl:Ontology. It is usually able to locate and retrieve the ontology on the world wide web, so pasting it into your web browser should retrieve a digital document. Furthermore, it is often configured to do content negotiation so that different related resources can be retrieved with the same identifier - e.g. the human-readable ontology documentation or different serializations of an ontology.
Ontologies usually also use the PURL to identify their classes and properties, e.g. in statements like:
<https://www.domain.de/myOntology#someProperty> rdf:type owl:AnnotationProperty. A working PURL is required to retrieve the ontology for indexing by the TIB Terminology Service. This metadatum is also recommended by:

URI: dcat:accessURL

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

Aliases

  • namspace URI

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: purl
description: "The PURL of an ontology is its persistent identifier. It is usually\
  \ used by within the ontology to state:\n`<https://www.domain.de/myOntology> rdf:type\
  \ owl:Ontology.` \nIt is usually able to locate and retrieve the ontology on the\
  \ world wide web, so pasting it into your web browser should retrieve a digital\
  \ document. Furthermore, it is often configured to do content negotiation so that\
  \ different related resources can be retrieved with the same identifier - e.g. the\
  \ human-readable ontology documentation or different serializations of an ontology.\
  \        \nOntologies usually also use the PURL to identify their classes and properties,\
  \ e.g. in statements like:          \n    `<https://www.domain.de/myOntology#someProperty>\
  \ rdf:type owl:AnnotationProperty.`\nA working PURL is required to retrieve the\
  \ ontology for indexing by the TIB Terminology Service.\nThis metadatum is also\
  \ recommended by:\n\n  * http://purl.obolibrary.org/meta/context.jsonld    \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:
- 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:
- vann:preferredNamespaceUri
- owl:ontologyIRI
aliases:
- namspace URI
rank: 1000
slot_uri: dcat:accessURL
multivalued: false
identifier: true
alias: purl
domain_of:
- RequiredMetadata
range: uriorcurie
required: true