ASCIIDOC documentation created by pyLODE 2.8.10
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Peter Brenton, CSIRO
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2017-08-14
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- Modified
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2020-04-24
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- Ontology RDF
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RDF turtle
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- Description
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The PROJECT ontology is designed to enable publication of information describing projects, including research projects. It is not designed to support project management, though sub-activities are included. As far as possible PROJECT is intended to be domain-neutral, and it is expected that domains and applications will specialize or extend this ontology for more specific purposes.
The ontology gives terms to support the representation of:
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project planning, funding, goals
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project stakeholders and relationships
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project activities and timeline
One specialization is included - the Research Project - which has been the subject of several predecessor designs that have informed the design of this ontology.
PROJECT extends the W3C PROV-O ontology. Otherwise, it has no dependencies except for the normal RDF/OWL infrastructure (RDF [rdf11-concepts], RDFS [rdf-schema], OWL [owl2-quick-reference]), Dublin Core [dc-terms] for some ontology metadata, and SKOS [skos-reference] to support some relationships between Role values, and project classification.
A summary of the main classes and relationships in PROJECT is shown in the diagram below, including the key superclass prov:Activity
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Core classes from PROJECT vocabulary.
Classes
Funding association
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Association to a funder and a sum of money  |
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ex:FA3 rdf:type proj:FundingAssociation ; rdfs:label "Level crossing removal project phase 1 funding arrangement" ; rdfs:seeAlso <http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/contract-awarded-for-first-four-level-crossing-removals/> ; proj:fundsProvided [ rdf:type proj:SumOfMoney ; proj:moneyAmount "524000000"^^xsd:decimal ; proj:moneyCurrency <https://dbpedia.org/resource/Australian_dollar> ; ] ; prov:agent <http://www.vic.gov.au/> ; .
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Project
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A Project is a planned activity with a budget, a sponsor, and a leader. Project stakeholders are indicated using Activities within a project are indicated using the  |
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ex:Project1 rdf:type proj:Project ; rdfs:label "Victoria level-crossing removal - phase 1" ; proj:hadBudgetTotal [ rdf:type proj:SumOfMoney ; rdfs:label "Level crossing removal phase 1 budget" ; proj:moneyAmount "524000000"^^xsd:decimal ; proj:moneyCurrency <https://dbpedia.org/resource/Australian_dollar> ; ] ; proj:hadLeader ex:johnholland-kbr ; proj:hadSponsor <http://levelcrossings.vic.gov.au/about/about-the-authority> ; proj:hadSubActivity ex:BentleighLevelCrossingRemoval ; proj:hadSubActivity ex:BurkeRoadLevelCrossingRemoval ; proj:hadSubActivity ex:McKinnonRoadLevelCrossingRemoval ; proj:hadSubActivity ex:NorthRoadLevelCrossingRemoval ; proj:wasFundedThrough [ rdf:type proj:FundingAssociation ; rdfs:label "Level crossing removal project phase 1 funding arrangement" ; rdfs:seeAlso <http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/contract-awarded-for-first-four-level-crossing-removals/> ; proj:fundsProvided [ rdf:type proj:SumOfMoney ; proj:moneyAmount "524000000"^^xsd:decimal ; proj:moneyCurrency <https://dbpedia.org/resource/Australian_dollar> ; ] ; prov:agent <http://www.vic.gov.au/> ; ] ; rdfs:label "Victoria level-crossing removal - phase 1" ; proj:plannedEnd "2017-03-31"^^xsd:date ; proj:plannedStart "2015-10-01"^^xsd:date ; prov:atLocation <https://dbpedia.org/resource/Melbourne> ; prov:endedAtTime "2016-10-31T00:00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:startedAtTime "2015-10-01T00:00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; .
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Research Project
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A research project is a project that has
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ex:Project2 rdf:type proj:Project ; rdf:type proj:ResearchProject ; rdfs:label "Improved management of feral animals in remote tropical Australia" ; proj:budgetTotal [ rdf:type proj:SumOfMoney ; proj:moneyAmount 0 ; proj:moneyCurrency <https://dbpedia.org/resource/Australian_dollar> ; ] ; proj:hadFieldOfResearch <http://purl.org/au-research/vocabulary/anzsrc-for/2008/050202> ; proj:hadPrincipalInvestigator <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5823-7364> ; proj:hadSponsor <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_Organisation> ; proj:hadSubActivity ex:Aerial ; proj:wasSubActivityOf <http://www.environment.gov.au/science/nesp> ; rdfs:label "Improved management of feral animals in remote tropical Australia" ; proj:hadObjective "To develop a robust understanding of the costs and benefits of selected feral animal control programs on reducing impacts to natural and cultural values." ; proj:plannedEnd "2022-12-31"^^xsd:date ; proj:plannedStart "2012-12-31"^^xsd:date ; proj:projectParticipant <mailto:peter.brenton@csiro.au> ; proj:hadPlan ex:FCY-project-plan ; proj:wasFundedThrough [ rdf:type proj:FundingAssociation ; proj:fundsProvided [ rdf:type proj:SumOfMoney ; proj:moneyAmount 0 ; proj:moneyCurrency <https://dbpedia.org/resource/Australian_dollar> ; ] ; prov:agent <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Government_of_Australia> ; ] ; prov:atLocation <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Archer_River,_Queensland> ; prov:generated <https://doi.org/10.1071/WF15133> ; prov:startedAtTime "2012-12-31T00:00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; .
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Sum of money
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A sum of money, expressed as an amount and a specified currency |
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ex:SM4 rdf:type proj:SumOfMoney ; proj:moneyAmount "524000000"^^xsd:decimal ; proj:moneyCurrency <https://dbpedia.org/resource/Australian_dollar> ; .
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Properties
Object Properties
pointer to funding-scheme funding provided has area of interest total project budget field of research leader Project plan principal investigator had related activity activity sponsor has sub-activity currency of a sum of money had funding association is sub-activity of
pointer to funding-scheme
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Link to description of funding scheme, e.g.
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has area of interest
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Address, place, locality, location, etc |
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total project budget
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Basic funding arrangements are captured through the More complex arrangements, for example if multiple funders are involved, can be captured through the |
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field of research
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The field of research of the research project. |
Scope Notes |
The value is usually taken from a curated vocabulary, such as [ANZSRC Fields of Research](http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/6BB427AB9696C225CA2574180004463E), [Re3data subjects](http://www.re3data.org/browse/by-subject/), [EDAM Topic](http://edamontology.org/topic_0003) or [Scigraph subjects](https://github.com/springernature/scigraph/wiki) |
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leader
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There are a number of distinctive stakeholders in a project, in particular: a leader who is accountable for the delivery of project outcomes; a sponsor under whose authority the project is undertaken; funders; and project staff or participants. In some cases it is useful to provide specific details of a participant’s role in the project. PROJECT provides a number of ways to represent the relationships of stakeholders to projects and activities. The standard role of leader is implemented as a directly named property from an We distinguish one sub-class, the |
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principal investigator
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The person who acts as principal investigator on the research project. |
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had related activity
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Link from an activity to a related activity. |
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activity sponsor
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There are a number of distinctive stakeholders in a project, in particular: a leader who is accountable for the delivery of project outcomes; a sponsor under whose authority the project is undertaken; funders; and project staff or participants. In some cases it is useful to provide specific details of a participant’s role in the project. PROJECT provides a number of ways to represent the relationships of stakeholders to projects and activities. Basic funding arrangements are captured through the  |
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has sub-activity
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Relationship from an activity to a subsidiary activity. |
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had funding association
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Basic funding arrangements are captured through the  |
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Datatype Properties
grant or contract number project objective Money amount planned end-date|time planned start-date|time
grant or contract number
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The grant or contract number assigned to the funding arrangement by the funder. 'Grant number' is common for research or charitable projects, 'Contract number' in a commercial context. |
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project objective
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Textual description of project objective. |
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Money amount
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Numeric value of a sum of money, which must be scaled by a specified currency to get the actual value |
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planned end-date|time
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The date and time at which an activity was planned to end. See also project:plannedStart. |
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Usually an xsd:date or xsd:dateTime |