Robert Gales / Roger Hyam
2006-05-26
2015-07-01
TDWG Ontology - Base
TDWG Biodiversity Information Standards
The Base Ontology contains the highest level classes and attributes within the TDWG ontology which are typically not domain specific entities.
This ontology has been demonstrated to be valid RDF of the OWL-Lite subset by the following online tool: Wonder Web OWL Ontology Validator
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This ontology is no longer under development and is no longer recommended for use. See https://github.com/tdwg/ontology for information about recommended replacements.
Base Thing
The BaseThing represents the root object within the TDWG ontology. All classes within the ontology should be a direct or indirect subclass of it. At this time there are no
properties that are necessary to define on this object as they are covered by global annotation properties.
Actor
The Base Actor represents any object that may perform an action. These may be people, organisations or software agents. Outside of the global properties that may be defined
through Dublin Core or OWL Lite natively, no additional properties have been defined on this class.
Space
The Base Space class represents a 2d or 3d geometry for describing a space.
Name
The Base Name class represents the highest level base class for any representation of a name.
Defined Term
The Base DefinedTerm represents a class for constructing controlled vocabularies of defined terminology. Known subclasses TaxonRankTerm and TDMTerm
Definition
A definition of a defined term.
Media Object
The Base MediaObject represents a basic level of understanding for a multimedia object and may be extended to add additional properties.