PRIMA Ontology - Core Module

Person with knowledge of how to access, troubleshoot, or otherwise field issues related to the resource.

Person/institution responsible for finding or gathering/collecting data under the guidelines of the author(s) or Principal Investigator (PI).

Physical or virtual identifiable piece of Equipment used to perform a Data Acquisition and to generate Raw Data. The Instrument is located in a (physical or virtual) Laboratory hosted by an Institution and can be physically, virtually, and/or remotely accessed. A virtual Instrument may be any computational resource or HPC infrastructure (cloud infrastructure or supercomputer) needed to perform Calculations or Simulations.

The role of a Research User who operates Equipment or performs a procedure during a Study, e.g., the person who conducts a Measurement or Processing and Treatment.

Person officially designated as head of project team or sub- project team instrumental in the work necessary to development of the resource.

Person officially designated as manager of a project. Project may consist of one or many project teams and sub-teams.

A person without a specifically defined role in the development of the resource, but who is someone the author wishes to recognize.

A person involved in analysing data or the results of an experiment or formal study. May indicate an intern or assistant to one of the authors who helped with research but who was not so "key" as to be listed as an author.

Designated administrator over one or more groups/teams working to produce a resource, or over one or more steps of a development process.

The role of the Research User in a Project, in the context of a specific Study. Examples of User Role are: data curator, project leader, project member. User Role also determines the access rights which might be granted in the information system(s) used for data management (i.e., Data Collaboration Platform, Data Repository, Metadata Repository).

Person responsible for ensuring the comprehensive contents, versioning, and availability of the Work Package during the development of the resource.

• Ein Datenverarbeitungsprozess, der das Verhalten eines Systems im Laufe der Zeit mit mathematischen oder rechnerischen Techniken modelliert

• A computing process that models the behavior of a system over time using mathematical or computational techniques.

(Elucidation) An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the start or end of such an entity or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region

As for process, history, process boundary, spatiotemporal region, zero-dimensional temporal region, one-dimensional temporal region, temporal interval, temporal instant.

(Elucidation) p is a process means p is an occurrent that has some temporal proper part and for some time t, p has some material entity as participant

An act of selling; the life of an organism; a process of sleeping; a process of cell-division; a beating of the heart; a process of meiosis; the taxiing of an aircraft; the programming of a computer

• occurrent ^c
• Thing ^c

2/3/2009 Comment from OBI review.

Action specification not well enough specified. Conditional specification not well enough specified. Question whether all plan specifications have objective specifications.

Request that IAO either clarify these or change definitions not to use them

Revisit the term in Octorber 2020. Improve the defintion.

Enterprise (potentially individual but typically collaborative) of one or more Research Users, planned to perform one or more Studies.

A plan specification detailed enough to be reliably and independently reproduced, prescribing the steps of a planned process such as a Measurement or Processing and Treatment. A Protocol is a continuant information artifact: it persists, is versioned, and is reused across many executions.

Person on the membership list of a designated project/project team.

• Project Leader ^c
• Project Manager ^c

Any of the following contributions, peer-reviewed or not: article in a scientific journal (and related supporting information), monograph, book or book chapter, conference proceedings, "grey literature" (informally published material having not gone through a standard publishing process, e.g., reports and highlights). A Scientific Publication typically reports the results and the conclusions of a Study, may be supplemented by Publication Data, and may be assigned a Persistent Identifier. A Scientific Publication may be attributed to some or to all the Research Users who are members of the Project.

• Ein Prozess, der die systematische Verwendung von rechnerischen Methoden und Werkzeugen umfasst, um Simulationen, Analysen oder Datenumwandlungen durchzuführen, um spezifische wissenschaftliche oder technische Ziele zu erreichen.

• A process that involves the systematic use of computational methods and tools to perform simulations, analyses, or data transformations to achieve specific scientific or engineering goals.

• Simulationsprozess ^c
• DataAnalysis ^c

A continuant that is dependent on one or other independent continuant bearers. For every instance of A requires some instance of (an independent continuant type) B but which instance of B serves can change from time to time.

• plan specification ^c
• Settings ^c
• Technique ^c

Any set of configuration parameters which determine the operational conditions of Equipment (including Instrument), configure Acquisition Software and/or Research Software, and/or describe a Model (e.g., by specifying the type of solver user).

Set of all the processes and activities performed by one or more Research Users, who are part of the same Project, with the purpose of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis and supporting the answer to some scientific research question. The output of a Study is usually reported in one or more Scientific Publications and may be supplemented by Publication Data.

• has data analysis ^op
• has scientific publication ^op

• has data acquisition ^op some DataAcquisition ^c
  
• has scientific publication ^op some Scientific Publication ^c
  
• has data analysis ^op some DataAnalysis ^c
  
• has participant ^op some ResearchUser ^c
  

Physical or digital entity or set of entities with distinctive properties (structural, chemical, dimensional, functional, or others) which is the subject of one or more actions or investigations. According to this definition, Sample, Material, and Model are particular types of System.

Any experimental, theoretical, or computational method with a specific aim, including but not limited to: process and/or treat Samples, prepare Models, acquire and/or analyze Research Data, using some Equipment.

(Elucidation) An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist

Julius Caesar; the Second World War; your body mass index; Verdi's Requiem

• occurrent ^c
• continuant ^c

• evaluant role ^c
• AgentRole ^c

• assay ^c
• Datenverarbeitung ^c
• Study ^c

• data entity ^c
• document ^c
• directive information entity ^c
• ResearchSoftware ^c

Set of actions performed by one or more Research Users, possibly using a Technique and Research Software, on Research Data, typically Processed Data, to extract insights that support the answer to some scientific research question. Data Analysis may include: linear combination fitting, least-squares curve fitting, data modelling, pattern extraction and/or segmentation, data visualization. The output of Data Analysis is Analyzed Data.

• has technique ^op some Technique ^c
  
• uses research software ^op some ResearchSoftware ^c
  
• has input ^op some ResearchData ^c
  
• has participant ^op some ResearchUser ^c
  
• has output ^op some ResearchData ^c
  

Data collected, created, or examined by one or more Research Users to be analyzed or considered as a basis for reasoning, discussion or calculation in a research context, with the purpose of generating, verifying, and/or validating original scientific claims that support the answer to some specific research question. According to this definition, Raw Data, Processed Data, Analyzed Data and Reference Data are particular types of Research Data. Research Data is typically in the form of one or more data files, but it may potentially be a data stream or any other form of data which is relevant in a particular data management context. Research Data may be described by Metadata and may be stored in a Data Collaboration Platform and/or in a Data Repository. Research Data may undergo some kind of Data Curation and be aggregated into a Dataset.

Any software used to process, analyze, or visualize Research Data (including data rendering and or plotting).

• specifically dependent continuant ^c
• characteristic ^c

Set of actions carried out by one or more Research Users, performed on a System or a set of them to generate a single self-consistent unit of Raw Data using a Technique, an Instrument and possibly other Equipment under constant or varying conditions described by Settings, depending on the particular research context. Data Acquisition may be an experimental (Measurement) or a computational (Calculation, Simulation) process. Data Acquisition is specific to a Technique: an investigation on the same System conducted using a different Technique implies a different Data Acquisition. The output of Data Acquisition is Raw Data.

• uses equipment ^op some Equipment ^c
  
• uses research software ^op some ResearchSoftware ^c
  
• has input ^op some ResearchData ^c
  
• has participant ^op some ResearchUser ^c
  
• has technique ^op some Technique ^c
  
• has specified input ^op some n3c44d4461b7847faa726a4436a6627ffb34 ^c
  
• has input ^op some System ^c
  
• has output ^op some ResearchData ^c
  

Any kind of physical or virtual item, device, machine or other tool located in a Laboratory hosted by an Institution, which can be physically, virtually, and/or remotely accessed to perform any of the processes during the course of a Study, by applying a Technique. Equipment is usually an investment. According to this definition, an Instrument is a particular type of Equipment.

• operates ^op
• uses equipment ^op

Person, usually member of a Project, who conducts any part of the Study to collect and/or to analyze Research Data, and/or reuses Reference Data to extract insights that support the answer to some specific research question, usually reported in one or more Scientific Publications. A Research User may be assigned with a User Role.

• operates ^op some Equipment ^c
  
• performs agent role ^op some AgentRole ^c
  

• independent continuant ^c
• Thing ^c

• organization ^c
• Equipment ^c

• immaterial entity ^c
• ResearchUser ^c
• material entity ^c

A functional role that an Agent can perform within a research context. Roles define the responsibilities and capabilities of agents in conducting research activities.

• Contact Person ^c
• Data Collector ^c
• Operator Role ^c
• Related Person ^c
• Researcher ^c
• Supervisor ^c
• User Role ^c
• Work Package Leader ^c
• Project Member ^c

• generically dependent continuant ^c
• System ^c
• specifically dependent continuant ^c
• independent continuant ^c

b has proper occurrent part c =Def b has occurrent part c & b and c are not identical

As for has occurrent part.

• has part ^op
• temporally related to ^op

• has part ^op
• temporally related to ^op

• This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See PROV-O OWL Profile.

• The Location of any resource.

Relates a completely executed planned process to the Protocol (plan specification) it carries out. Shortcut for the BFO pattern in which the process realizes a plan that is the concretization of this plan specification.

hasStudy represents the relationship between project to study.

b has occurrent part c =Def c occurrent part of b

Mary's life has occurrent part Mary's 5th birthday

X ends_after Y iff: end(Y) before_or_simultaneous_with end(X)

• This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See PROV-O OWL Profile.

• Because prov:wasInfluencedBy is a broad relation, its more specific subproperties (e.g. prov:wasInformedBy, prov:actedOnBehalfOf, prov:wasEndedBy, etc.) should be used when applicable.

hasDataAcquisition represents the relationship between study to data acquisition

hasDataAnalysis represents the relationship between study to data analysis

hasScientificPublication represents the relationship between study to scientific publication

isMemberOfProject is the inverse of hasProjectMember, representing the relationship from research user to project

operates represents the relationship between equipment to research user

usesEquipment represents the relationship between data acquisition to equipment

Attribution is the ascribing of an entity to an agent.

hasProjectMember represents the relationship between project and its member, which is research user.

hasSetting represents the relationship between equipment, research software, acquisition software, data acquisition, or system (including a model) to settings

hasTechnique represents the relationship between data acquisition or data analysis to technique

performsAgentRole relates an independent continuant (agent) with AgentRole

usesResearchSoftware represents the relationship between data acquisition, data analysis, data processing, or data curation to research software

• overlaps ^op
• topObjectProperty ^op

• starts with ^op
• ends with ^op
• has occurrent part ^op

A relation that holds between two occurrents. This is a grouping relation that collects together all the Allen relations.

• starts with ^op
• ends with ^op
• ends after ^op

• has specified input ^op
• has output ^op
• has input ^op

• atLocation ^op
• mereotopologically related to ^op
• was influenced by ^op
• causally related to ^op
• has part ^op
• temporally related to ^op
• has participant ^op

Consider re-defing to: An alternative name for a class or property which can mean the same thing as the preferred name (semantically equivalent, narrow, broad or related).

The 'tracker item' can associate a tracker with a specific ontology term.

Classify prov-o terms into three categories, including 'starting-point', 'qualifed', and 'extended'. This classification is used by the prov-o html document to gently introduce prov-o terms to its users.

Classify prov-o terms into six components according to prov-dm, including 'agents-responsibility', 'alternate', 'annotations', 'collections', 'derivations', and 'entities-activities'. This classification is used so that readers of prov-o specification can find its correspondence with the prov-dm specification.

A definition quoted from PROV-DM or PROV-CONSTRAINTS that describes the concept expressed with this OWL term.

A note by the OWL development team about how this term expresses the PROV-DM concept, or how it should be used in context of semantic web or linked data.

PROV-O does not define all property inverses. The directionalities defined in PROV-O should be given preference over those not defined. However, if users wish to name the inverse of a PROV-O property, the local name given by prov:inverse should be used.

This annotation property links a subproperty of prov:wasInfluencedBy with the subclass of prov:Influence and the qualifying property that are used to qualify it.

Example annotation:

prov:wasGeneratedBy prov:qualifiedForm prov:qualifiedGeneration, prov:Generation .

Then this unqualified assertion:

:entity1 prov:wasGeneratedBy :activity1 .

can be qualified by adding:

:entity1 prov:qualifiedGeneration :entity1Gen . :entity1Gen a prov:Generation, prov:Influence; prov:activity :activity1; :customValue 1337 .

Note how the value of the unqualified influence (prov:wasGeneratedBy :activity1) is mirrored as the value of the prov:activity (or prov:entity, or prov:agent) property on the influence class.