sponsor
The individual or organization who is providing sponsorship for the resource.
CC BY-NC 3.0
Public Domain Mark
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
long term
stewarded by
Agent (i.e., individual, individuals, organization, or a position/role) that is responsible for operation, availability, and maintainence of the resource
An ECResource that is a catalog of other resources. By definition catalogs are datasets.
Resource published or curated by a single agent.
dcat:Resource is an extension point that enables the definition of any kind of catalog. Additional sub-classes may be defined in a DCAT profile or other DCAT application for catalogs of other kinds of resources
The class of all cataloged resources, the super-class of dcat:Dataset, dcat:DataService, dcat:Catalog and any other member of a dcat:Catalog. This class carries properties common to all cataloged resources, including datasets and data services. It is strongly recommended to use a more specific sub-class when available.
ECAudience
A class of entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful.
beta or complete draft
Maturity information about an entity that is complete and available but has not yet been fully vetted (e.g., may contain bugs if software or has not completed editorial or other review if documentation, etc.).
unknown
It is not known how much, if any, usage there is of this resource.
A resource with low usage, may be new and so has not yet built up a user community, possibly not widely known (more advertising needed), or it may indicate a resource that has missed its mark.
An alternative name for a class or property which means the same thing as the preferred name (semantically equivalent) Annotations
alternative term
Use skos:altLabel
Public Domain
The individual or individuals who are the lead researchers for a grant (i.e. head of the laboratory, research group leader, etc.). If there are co-principal investigators then this field will repeat for each principle investigator. While it is possible to have a principal investigator and author be the same individual or organization, principal investigator is not the same nor synonymous with author.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
usage low
owner
The individual or organization that has ownership of the resource.
Atmospheric & Space Electricity
CC BY-ND 3.0
ECResource
A catalogued resource that is in the EarthCube Registry.
funder
The individual or organization which has provided all or part of the finances associated with the resource.
Mineral and Rock Physics
Maturity information about an entity that is available but only in draft form or as an alpha release. The entity may not be complete (e.g. specifications, documentation) or thoroughly tested (e.g., software).
Qualitative specification of how long the resource is expected to remain accessible, valid and usable for intended function
EC Catalog Record
has domain
Relates a field of study (i.e., domain or discipline) to an entity.
ECResourceType
An ECResourceType is a list of the type of resources in the EC Resource Registry.
Maturity information about an entity that is currently being developed but which is not expected to be available for more than another year.
The EC general usage field is data about EC resource usage that is not specific to a particular user category though it does indicate which categories are in use (if any).
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology
developer
In the context of the EarthCube Registry developers are users who wish to find software components that they can integrate into software they are building.
scientists
CC BY-SA 4.0
A repository user is one who is interested in what components in the EarthCube Registry may be relevant to integrate or use in serving their user community.
author
The individual or organization whose name should appear first in the citation for the resource (for names that come after the first use co-author). While it is possible to have an author and principle investigator be the same individual or organization, author is not the same as nor synonymous with principle investigator. Applicable mainly to documents, reports, memos, etc.
Widely used > 1 yr
Maturity information about an entity that fully developed, tested, etc. and in production (e.g., a major version or edition has been released).
CC BY 2.0
EC Bundled Object
A composite resource that is a collection of other resources assembled into a package for some purpose, and accessible as a single Unit.
Docker containers; Bagit, Data on the Web, or ORE packages with heterogeneous content.
interface
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Education
An axiom expressed in first order logic using CLIF syntax
has associated axiom(fol)
An Interface/API should have an associated specification document.
EC Interface_API
A set of operations, messages used to invoke the operations, and inputs necessary to execute the operations, along with an expected output content and format.
user
The individuals or organizations who are the intended consumers of the resource.
primaryPublication
Identifier for publication that specifies the component, e.g. DOI or a standard academic citation.
credit be given to copyright holder and/or author
Attribution
Planetary Sciences
The organization that is responsible for providing the PARR required access to the data.
expectedLifetime
CC BY-NC 1.0
A URI that is intended to be unique label for an axiom used for tracking change to the ontology. For an axiom expressed in different languages, each expression is given the same URI
has axiom label
not applicable
Resource is not available for use, typically because it is still in development.
data producers
jurisdiction
production ready
The name of the person, project, or organization that motivated inclusion of an ontology term by requesting its addition.
ontology term requester
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
used by programmers
This EC resource is in use withint the cyberinfrastructure/programming community as characterized by EC CS usage.
pointOfContact
The individual or organization who is responsible for the initial triage of and answering questions related to the resource.
CC BY-ND 2.0
Atmospheric Sciences
EC Service Instance
A software entity on one side of an interface that executes some kind of processing in response to a request made by an agent on the other side of the interface.
The service presents a set of offerings, each of which entails a resource and one or more operations on that resource. Each offering also specifies the interchange format for input and output, and the syntax for invoking the operations, including any parameters in the operation signature.
A serialization scheme (data format) for communication between agents.
distribution of derivative works
Derivative Works
mediator
Natural Hazards
ECResourceTypes
use in a non-developing country
High Income Nation Use
rightsHolder
The individual or organization who has ownership of the legal right to the resource.
derivative works must be licensed under specified terms, with at least the same conditions as the original work; combinations with the work may be licensed under different terms
Lesser Copyleft
planning
Information about the maturity of an entity for which development is planned but is not yet underway (e.g., book contract not yet signed, development project not yet started).
source code (the preferred form for making modifications) must be provided when exercising some rights granted by the license.
Source Code
A funder is a type of user interested in understanding what elements of the EarthCube Registry they have funded.
has curation status
permits
informaticists
CC BY-SA 3.0
custodian
The individual or organization that has accountability and responsibility for the data and ensures appropriate care and maintenance of the resource.
Maturity information about an entity that is in development and is expected to be complete in less than another year.
Widely used > 5 yr
CC BY 1.0
Both the geoscience and the software and cyberinfrastructure/development communities use this resource as characterized by EC CS usage and EC Geo usage.
applicationInterface
CC BY-ND-NC 1.0
Geodesy
EarthCube resource usage is data that indicates how well used the resource is by the CS and Geo branches of the EarthCube community.
EC Interchange Format
Most general types are generic formats specified by typical MIME types, but this resource type includes much more granular identification of schemes/Data Types/Data Specification that are specific to particular applications. These generally implement some underlying information model (schema and vocabulary) that enables semantic as well as syntactic interoperability. An Interchange Format SHOULD have an associated specification that documents its provisions and usage. Registered interchange formats are intended to provide identifiers for data serialization formats that work with specific applications. Links to registered formats would be via URI values for the inputFormat and outputFormat properties on an Interface/API, Software, or Service resource. In situations where no specification resource is available to document the format, it is sufficient to simply identify the format as an application specific format. This is the case for various commercial applications that use proprietary formats, as well as for scientific model input and output formats. The interchange format can be linked to an information model that defines the entities and properties represented using the format.
CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
coAuthor
The individual(s) or organization(s) who name(s) should appear after the first name in a citation for the resource (use author to denote the first name in the citation). While it is possible to have a co-author and principal investigator/collaborator be the same individual or organization, co-author is no the same as nor synonymous with principle investigator or collaborator
has license
Seismology
data intermediary
Attribution (CC BY)
This EC resource is in use within the geoscience community as characterized by EC Geo usage.
data users
Social Impacts and Policy Sciences
copyright and license notices be kept intact
Notice
in production
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
used by geoscientists
principalInvestigator
CC BY-ND 1.0
Biogeosciences
CC0 “No Rights Reserved”
exercising rights for commercial purposes
Commercial Use
Near-Surface Geophysics
registrationMetadata
deprecated on
in development >1 year out
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)
EC resource usage
repository
CC BY-SA 2.0
members of the public
distributor
Geohealth
EC Repository
An ECResource record for a repository - a place where things may be put for safekeeping.
In EarthCube, a repository is often a storage system in which objects may be stored for subsequent access or retrieval.
collaborator
Party who assists with the generation of the resource other than the principal investigator
EC Semantic Resource
A specification of concepts, and optionally relationships representing a conceptualization of some domain of discourse.
Includes a spectrum of resources including controlled vocabulary, thesaurus, information model, taxonomy, glossary, vocabulary....). For linked data purposes, it is useful to specify the entities and properties of the entities represented by the model using URI references to widely used ontologies. For discovery purposes in the registry, the entities and properties should be described in English language terms.
distribution, public display, and publicly performance
Distribution
Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
Space Physics and Aeronomy
originatingProject
used in multiple places
PDM "No Known Copyright"
consider
CC BY-NC-SA 1.0
used by both
stewardship type
processor
The name of the individual or organization who has processed the data in a manner such that the resource has been modified.
Cyrosphere Sciences
EC Specification
A document that describes the technical characteristics of an artifact or practice, possibly including a description of what it should do, or an explicit set of requirements that it must satisfy.
All resources may have a conformsTo property that should be a link to a specification. Specifications may be hierarchical, e.g. a profile specification might inherit provisions from a parent specification, and add additional constraints to further restrict usage of the artifact or practice.
interoperability agreement, identifier scheme
EC record created
prohibits
publisher
The individual or organization who prepares and issues the resource.
permits commercial derivatives, but only non-commercial distribution
Sharing
Nonlinear Geophysics
>5 years
A researcher is a user who is interested in discovering items in the EarthCube Resource Registry (e.g., tools, data sets, etc.) that they can use in persuing their research.
Use Case
This application level ontology is intended to provide the framework for answering questions like: 1. "How can EarthCube help me?" (Science Engagement), 2. "If I had an EarthCube Workbench, what capabilities could I access through it?" (Workbench) and 3. “What EarthCube software components can I use to get my application working?” (Developers). It extends the idea of an EarthCube Registry beyond data sets, to a generalized Registry of software components, semantic resources, tools, etc., with descriptive information to facilitate evaluation for reuse.
stewardship
ISO role codes are the CI_Responsible parties as used within the ISO 19115 family of specifications.
Licenses created and maintained by the Creative Commons (creativecommons.org)
Creative Commons
in development <1 yr out
EC general usage
Curation of these fields is necessary to validate the content!
For external terms/classes, the ontology from which the term was imported
imported from
has usage
For EC resources, has usage indicates what communities (if known) know about and potentially use the resource.
An administrative note intended for its editor. It may not be included in the publication version of the ontology, so it should contain nothing necessary for end users to understand the ontology.
editor note
CC BY-SA 1.0
The name of the individual or organization who is responsible for the data at the point when the data was first created. Applicable for data sets that are an aggregation of two or more data sets or if the data set is the first instance of the signal having been converted into data.
all
making multiple copies
Reproduction
Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism
Kahn and Wilensky, 1995, http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/k-w.html
contributor
The individuals or organizations whose contributions deserve recognition in the citation. Contributor is mutually exclusive from author, co-author, principal investigator, and collaborator. Use ISO MD_Identification credit field to identify individual or organizations that should be given acknowledgement only.
Global Environmental Change
The key defining feature is extensibility - with plugin architecture and API-based interaction between components to enable reconfiguration/extension for new problems.
EC Platform
An entry in the EC Resource Registry representing a composite software entity that enables execution of a variety of tools e.g. MatLab, ArcGIS.
Relates an entity in the ontology to the name of the variable that is used to represent it in the code that generates the BFO OWL file from the lispy specification.
BFO OWL specification label
data facilities & repositories
Attribution-NoDerivatives 1.0
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
A specification of a scenario for a work item with some specific context and goal.
has maturity state
The concise, meaningful, and human-friendly name for a class or property preferred by the ontology developers. (US-English)
editor preferred term
A curated collection of descriptions of resources, accessible through one or more interfaces.
Relates an entity in the ontology to the term that is used to represent it in the the Common Logic Interchange Format (CLIF) specification of BFO2
curator note: Really of interest to developers only
BFO CLIF specification label
definition source: Person:Alan Ruttenberg
CC BY-NC 2.0
derivative and combined works must be licensed under specified terms, similar to those on the original work
Copyleft
CC BY 4.0
The individual who has made a corrective or editorial change to the resource as part of a systematic revision process.
profileOf
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
elucidation
EC Use Case
EC record updated
resourceProvider
The individual or organization that supplies or allocates the resource for another entity.
CC BY-NC 4.0
Ocean Sciences
>1 year
requires
alpha or rough draft
An administrative note of use for a curator but of no use for a user
curator note
all sections
Name of editor entering the term in the file. The term editor is a point of contact for information regarding the term. The term editor may be, but is not always, the author of the definition, which may have been worked upon by several people
term editor
data managers
originator
In the EarthCube (EC) context, data includes any and all EarthCube resources irrespective of form (e.g., software, documentation, etc. all count as does traditional numeric data).
CC BY-ND 4.0
A packaged set of instructions that can be executed by a machine to perform one or more functions. Distribution might be as source code, an executable file, an installer package, or as a web application that can be invoked via URL.
editor
Hydrology
EC CatalogRegistry
Technically a catalog should be a dcat bundled dataset (the metadata collection) and one or more sdo:Services (i.e., the access interfaces). Implicitly there is also a stewardship/policy component determining management of the catalog.
derivative works be licensed under the same terms or compatible terms as the original work
Share Alike
a set of requests/permissions to users of a Work, e.g. a copyright license, the public domain, information for distributors
License
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
technologists
Tectonophysics
curated by
The name of the agent that is maintaining this resource.
researcher
A phrase describing how a term should be used and/or a citation to a work which uses it. May also include other kinds of examples that facilitate immediate understanding, such as widely know prototypes or instances of a class, or cases where a relation is said to hold.
example of usage
data item
developers
ISO role codes
>10 adopters
CC BY 3.0
communicationProtocol
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Earth and Space Science Informatics
An axiom associated with a term expressed using natural language
has associated axiom(nl)
EC Software
Software represented in the EC registry
EC record retired