DefinedTerm

CDIFCore::Classes::DefinedTerm

Definition

Documentation

Original

Reference

schema:DefinedTerm

Definition

A word, name, acronym, phrase, etc. with a formal definition. Often used in the context of category or subject classification, glossaries or dictionaries, product or creative work types, etc. Use the name property for the term being defined, use termCode if the term has an alpha-numeric code allocated, use description to provide the definition of the term. Use the about property to specify what the term is about.

Scope

Parent class(es): Intangible (https://schema.org/Intangible).

CDIF

Definition

schema:DefinedTerm - a term from a controlled vocabulary used as a value (keywords, additionalType, measurementTechnique, ...).

JSON serialization: In a JSON instance, a property typed as DefinedTerm may also be supplied as a plain string (the term's label) or as an object reference ({"@id": ...}) instead of a full schema:DefinedTerm object.

Diagram

Inheritance

No generalization relationships.

Attributes

Name	Type	Multiplicity	Description
identifier	Identifier	[0..1]	Documentation Original Reference schema:identifier Definition The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of [[Thing]], such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See [background notes](/docs/datamodel.html#identifierBg) for more details. Scope Domain: Thing (https://schema.org/Thing). Range: PropertyValue (https://schema.org/PropertyValue), Text (https://schema.org/Text), URL (https://schema.org/URL). CDIF Definition The primary identifier for the dataset; other identifiers should be listed in the sameAs field. Schema.org has three ways of encoding identifiers-- a text description, a URL, or by using the schema:PropertyValue field. The Science on Schema.org guidance strongly recommends using the PropertyValue approach. see https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org .... Dataset.md#identifier. Ideally, for any given data provided they would provide identifiers either all as strings or all as identifier_type. Scope @id / schema:identifier - URI for the term.
name	string	[1]	Documentation Original Reference schema:name Definition The name of the item. Scope Domain: Thing (https://schema.org/Thing). Range: Text (https://schema.org/Text). CDIF Definition A descriptive name of a dataset (e.g., 'Snow depth in Northern Hemisphere'). The name should uniquely identify the described resource for human use, in the scope of the metadata catalog containing this metadata record. Scope schema:name - the term's preferred label.
termCode	string	[0..1]	Documentation Original Reference schema:termCode Definition A code that identifies this [[DefinedTerm]] within a [[DefinedTermSet]]. Scope Domain: DefinedTerm (https://schema.org/DefinedTerm). Range: Text (https://schema.org/Text). CDIF Definition A representative code for this keyword in the controlled vocabulary. Analogous to skos:Notation Scope schema:termCode - code value within the term set.
inDefinedTermSet	XsdAnyUri	[0..1]	Documentation Original Reference schema:inDefinedTermSet Definition A [[DefinedTermSet]] that contains this term. Scope Domain: DefinedTerm (https://schema.org/DefinedTerm). Range: DefinedTermSet (https://schema.org/DefinedTermSet), URL (https://schema.org/URL). CDIF Definition Name for the controlled vocabulary responsible for this keyword. Scope schema:inDefinedTermSet - URI of the controlled vocabulary containing this term.

Associations

Role	Target	Multiplicity	Kind
keywords	← Dataset	[0..*]	association