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OWL-DSP

OWL-DSP

OWL-DSP is an OWL ontology for describing Description Set Profiles (DSPs) — the conceptual model behind the YAMA family. It was originally specified as part of the Metadata Information Sharing Guidelines, produced circa 2011 under the Metadata Information Infrastructure Construction Project (メタデータ情報基盤構築事業), whose work was subsequently carried on by the Metadata Information Infrastructure Initiative (MI3) (メタデータ基盤協議会, Japan). It provides the formal semantic backbone used to express metadata application profiles with rich semantics.

OWL-DSP Specification (English)
Full English specification based on the Japanese original
OWL-DSP 仕様書（日本語原文）
原典である日本語版仕様書

At a Glance

  • An OWL 2 ontology with namespace https://www.kanzaki.com/ns/dsp#
  • Describes DescriptionTemplate (shape) and StatementTemplate (property constraint)
  • Supports cardinality, value types, datatype, class, shape reference, vocabulary scheme, picklists, and cardinality notes
  • Used by YAMAML as the rich semantic target format