06-domain-details.adoc

Data Domain Details

The Data Domains described above are implemented using multiple models and other resources. The following subsections describe the Domains' details and link to all their resources.

Data Cataloguing Domain

This model is based on the Data Catalog Vocabulary [DCAT] and The Provenance Ontology [PROV] with extensions to cater for mappings to FAIR [FAIR] and CARE [CARE] models. The essential model is shown in Figure 8.

Figure 1. Data Cataloguing Model, based on DCAT & PROV

Organisations & People Domain

This domain is essentially the organization modelling element of schema.org with a few additional properties to track some aspects of organisations relevant to data governance. The essential model is shown in Figure 10.

Figure 2. Organisation Model, based on schema.org

Theming Domain

still to come

Sampling & Observations Domain

This domain is essentially the Data Cube Vocabulary [DQ]'s core elements with dataset metadata replaced with elements from DCAT [DCAT]. The essential model is shown in Figure 9.

Figure 3. Observations Model, based on Data Cube Vocabulary overview

Spatiality Domain

The Spatiality domain is the promary concern of the Loc-I Project since the project aims to provide an integration mthdology, models and an integrated and estensible "spine" of major national spatial datasets.