With this repository, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library provides a practical guide for metadata management of ontologies. It gives recommendations on required, recommended and optional metadata for ontologies.
In particular, it addresses ontology engineers who would like to publish their ontologies on the TIB Terminology Service, the NFDI4INg Terminology Service or the NFDI4Chem Terminology Service.
An introduction and overview is given in the Metadata Guide.
In addition, we provide SHACL shapes based on these recommendations in OntoMetadataShape.ttl which can also be reached via https://www.purl.org/ontologymetadata/shape. These shapes can be used in SHACL validators and to check whether an ontology meets the recommendations. For example, the following onlin e SHACL validators are available:
INFO: This recommendation is still a draft. Approval and discussion by a broader communiuty are required.
This repository is archived at Zenodo: https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11103071
- Arndt, S., Borgelt, H. und Strömert, P. (2023) „FAIR Ontology Metadata - Crucial Information for Understanding, Evaluation, and Application“. 2nd Ontologies4Chem Workshop 2023 (Ontologies4Chem 2023), Zenodo, 12 Oktober. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10117899.
- see complete list of sources in the Metadata Guide