FAIR term identifiers

Examples of individual items from some vocabularies in the persistent domains, which illustrate

Rule 5. Design an identifier scheme and pattern.

• ‘metres per second’ is defined in four different FAIR vocabularies, two of which use term-based local-ids, while two are opaque

  • http://sweetontology.net/reprSciUnits/meterPerSecond
  • http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/M-PER-SEC
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UO_0000094
  • http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UVAA/

• ANZ Soil Vocabularies use local-ids that concatenate a collection-name and item-code

  • http://anzsoil.org/def/au/asls/landform/morphological-type-H
  • http://anzsoil.org/def/au/asls/soil-profile/field-texture-CS

• The FAIR Geological Timescale prepared by GeoSciML, and the place-classification vocabulary used in the Australian public sector, use the familiar name of the item as the local-id

  • http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Phanerozoic
  • http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/def/voc/ga/PlaceType/MOUNTAIN

These IRIs are actionable, following

Rule 9. Make the IRIs resolve - address vocabulary Accessibility.