Topics

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

Properties

This section describes the metadata fields for a Topic.

Local identifier

Description:

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

Type:

String

Use:

Mandatory (1)

1 "local_identifier": "topic_1"

Identifiers

Description:

Identifier for the entity outside of the SKG (e.g., PID, pURL).

Type:

List

Use:

Optional, (0..1)

Scheme

Description:

The scheme for the external identifier.

Type:

String

Use:

Mandatory (1)

Value

Description:

The external identifier.

Type:

String

Use:

Mandatory (1)

 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

Description:

The display name of the Topic.

Type:

String

Use:

Mandatory (1)

1 "name": "Semantic Web"