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Pattern 8: Material Entity Description

Source: MWO  ·  Published by: ise-fizkarlsruhe.github.io  ·  Category: structural  ·  Domain: materials

Gives a structured description of a material entity such as a device or a material: it is tied to the processes or projects it participates in or is an output of, its realizable aspects (role, disposition, function) hang off bearer_of, agents and a place are attached, and its structural composition is given by part and member relations. Further ICEs carry its identifiers, specifications and other descriptive metadata.

What it answers

  • Which project produced a given material or device, and which processes has it taken part in?
  • Where is a given device kept, and what is it designed to do?
  • Which parts make up a given device, and which model number and intended setpoint values are recorded for the device itself?

The pattern

The graph is the axioms the pattern asserts; nothing here is inferred. Drag to rearrange, scroll to zoom, and use the graph's own search box to find a term inside it.

Opens at level of detail 3: classes, individuals, properties and restrictions, without the literals. Raise it with the LOD control in the graph's own toolbar to see annotation values and anything a reasoner adds.

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Should you use this one?
Size 33 classes, 11 properties, 316 axioms
Brings in nothing - it stands on its own
Reasoning HermiT finds this pattern consistent, with no unsatisfiable class, and its worked example consistent with the pattern.

Its IRI is https://ontoboard.org/patterns/mwo-material-entity-description.owl - a name rather than an address: nothing answers there, so the download link above is the file.

Check it yourself: the published pattern  ·  an archived copy.

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ontologydesignpatterns.org, which publishes most of this library, does not currently answer over HTTPS, and its wiki redirects submission pages to its front page. The archived copy is there for exactly that reason. The ontology files themselves are still served over plain HTTP.

Terms it declares

The 44 classes and properties this pattern models, as the recommender scores them. Annotation properties and built-ins are excluded, because an annotation property is not modelling.

  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000001
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000002
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000003
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000015
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000017
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000023
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000029
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000030
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000031
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000034
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000040
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000050
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000051
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000141
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000196
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000030
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000033
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000136
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000235
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0020000
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0001930
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0000056
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0001025
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002234
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002350
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002351
  • http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002353
  • http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/MWO_0001015
  • http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/MWO_0001016
  • http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/MWO_0001023
  • http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/MWO_0001099
  • https://nfdi.fiz-karlsruhe.de/ontology/NFDI_0000002
  • https://nfdi.fiz-karlsruhe.de/ontology/NFDI_0000005
  • https://nfdi.fiz-karlsruhe.de/ontology/NFDI_0000102
  • https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0000000
  • https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0000002
  • https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0000602
  • https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0060006
  • https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0060007
  • https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0060009

An example of it in use

The pattern says what may be asserted; this says it. The graph below is a small set of individuals that instantiate the classes above and are connected by its properties, so the shape the pattern describes is visible as data rather than as a schema.

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Import this pattern into your own ontology from inside Protégé: OntoBoard → Reuse → Pattern library…, which hands it to Import terms… and writes the term list, the module, the import and the catalog entry the way ODK expects. See Working with ODK.

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