Modules¶

Schemas are grouped into modules. Each is versioned and conformable on its own, so a consumer can adopt one without taking on the others, and a module can later move to its own repository as a redirect rather than a breaking change.

Modules are listed even while empty: the structure is meant to give every recurring pattern a home, so contributors know where a new schema belongs rather than inventing a place for it. The cut below is a first draft. Which modules exist and where a boundary falls are open questions, and moving a schema between modules is cheaper now than after the inventory is filled in.

module	scope	status
`quantities`	QuantityValue, units, uncertainty, value specifications (scalar, fraction, categorical), ratios	worked example
`datasets`	Dataset, Distribution, storage modes, tabular data, data services	planned
`processes`	processes and chains, inputs and outputs, plans, recipes, participants, workflows	planned
`measurement`	measurement, assay, calibration, measurement datum	planned
`time`	temporal regions, durations, process start and end, temporalized qualities	planned
`qualities`	qualities, dispositions, realizable entities, roles	planned
`materials`	chemical composition, structure and microstructure, material properties	planned
`devices`	device specification, settings and setpoints, identifiers	planned
`simulation`	simulated entities, digital counterparts, computation provenance	planned
`foundations`	upper-ontology structure, module overviews, object-property inventories	planned

time is about process time: temporal regions, durations, temporalized qualities. It is not the Time quantity kind, which lives in quantities. The two are different things that share a word, and they must not be mapped onto each other.

Conformance IRIs follow https://w3id.org/oo-ld/modules/<module>/<version>; see Conformance.

Reading a module's pages¶

Each module holds one page per schema: what it is for, the schema itself, how each of its terms reads in RDF, and the decisions behind it. The schema files are embedded from the repository, so a page shows what is published rather than a description of it.

Schemas are listed by inheritance: a subschema appears under the schema it extends, because that is how its terms and mappings are inherited too.

quantities
- QuantityValue, a number with a unit and optional uncertainty
  - Time, restricted to time units, with its unit individuals aliased
  - Length, restricted to length units
    - Diameter, Length across a round object

Published files for a module are listed at its versioned path, for example quantities/0.1/.