From 0f56835d50154e689ad873a6ad0161b7620f92c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steffen Neumann Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:53:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add DefinedTerm use case --- pages/_useCases/DefinedTerm.md | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 pages/_useCases/DefinedTerm.md diff --git a/pages/_useCases/DefinedTerm.md b/pages/_useCases/DefinedTerm.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cc26cd0a --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/_useCases/DefinedTerm.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +layout: use-case +name: DefinedTerm +group: Dataset +active: true +redirect_from: +- "/useCases/DefinedTerm/" +- "/useCases/DefinedTerm" +--- + +The SchemaOrg type DefinedTerm is allowed in many places as property value. + +In e.g. the life-sciences, there are a number of controlled vocabularies +and ontologies, which are often used as source of the `DefinedTerms`. +Many of them can be browsed and accessed through terminology and lookup services or portals. + +For linked data applications it is sufficient for an entity +with `@type="DefinedTerm"` to link to an `@id` pointing to the IRI +of the referenced concept. In other cases, more information is needed to search and view defined term information +without having to lookup external resources. Those use cases are the target of this profile. +E.g., a domain-specific search engine +can create faceted search based on the `name` property, like e.g. done in TeSS. +Aforementioned terminology services also offer linking and query interfaces +beyond IRIs as parameters. + +Another possible use of a conformant `DefinedTerm` +is to enable creating hyperlinks to other web ressources, e.g. +https://bio.tools/t?inputDataFormatID=%22format_3244%22 +or provide tool-tips if the `description` is provided. + +It is not intended to duplicate the content and expressivity +of powerful ontology representations and serialisations like OWL or RDF.