Topics

A Topic describes the scientific disciplines, subjects and keywords potentially relevant for a Research product.

This section describes the metadata fields for a Topic.

local_identifier

String (mandatory): Unique code identifiying the Topic in the SKG (if any, otherwise “stateless identifier”).

1 "local_identifier": "topic_1"

identifiers

List (optional): A list of objects representing external identifiers for the entity. Each object is structured as follows.

  • scheme String (mandatory): The scheme for the external identifier.

  • value String (mandatory): The external identifier.

 1 "identifiers": [
 2     {
 3         "scheme": "Computer Science Ontology",
 4         "value": "https://cso.kmi.open.ac.uk/topics/semantic_web"
 5     },
 6     {
 7         "scheme": "dbpedia",
 8         "value": "https://dbpedia.org/page/Semantic_Web"
 9     }
10 ]

name

String (mandatory): The display name of the Topic.

1 "name": "Semantic Web"