Ontologies used in DISK¶
DISK uses several ontologies to represent core concepts about hypothesis-driven discoveries, shown in the following diagram:
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Community ontologies (shown in blue): Widely-used community standards to represent basic entities such as people, provenance, and files. These ontologies are the core vocabulary used to store general metadata on DISK.
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Core DISK ontologies (shown in green): Internal ontologies that represent core knowledge structures in DISK, such as:
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DISK Ontology: Basic DISK definitions such as Hypothesis and Line of inquiry. More information here.
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DISK Hypothesis Ontology: Basic properties to define general hypothesis. More information here.
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Question Template Ontology: Ontology to represent questions. More information here.
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Imported Ontologies (shown in yellow): Imported ontologies. Categorized on three types:
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Data Ontologies: Each data repository used in DISK has to provide an ontology of its metadata concepts. This ontology is specified as part of Data Adapters.
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Workflow System Ontologies: Each workflow system used in DISK has to provide an ontology of its workflow concepts. This ontology is a key aspect of Method Adapters.
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Domain Ontologies: These are ontologies that are used to state hypotheses and questions. They are domain specific.
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