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Slot: versionInfo

Some ontologies make use of semantic versioning and employ strings like 1.0.0 as a tag to distinguish one version of their ontology from a successor. Others employ the modification date, e.g. 2022-12-21.

This metadatum is also recommended as required by:

URI: owl:versionInfo

Inheritance

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

  • 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: versionInfo
description: "Some ontologies make use of semantic versioning and employ strings like\
  \ 1.0.0 as a tag to distinguish one version of their ontology from a successor.\
  \ Others employ the modification date, e.g. 2022-12-21.\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://dgarijo.github.io/Widoco/doc/bestPractices/index-en.html\n  * https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009041\n\
  \  * http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3127/#paper-15\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:
- pav:version
- schema:schemaVersion
rank: 1000
is_a: versionInformation
slot_uri: owl:versionInfo
multivalued: false
alias: versionInfo
domain_of:
- RequiredMetadata
range: string
required: true