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layout: use-case | ||
name: DefinedTerm | ||
group: data | ||
active: true | ||
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The SchemaOrg type DefinedTerm is allowed in many places as property value. | ||
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In e.g. the life-sciences, there are a number of controlled vocabularies | ||
and ontologies, which are often used as source of the `DefinedTerms`. | ||
Many of them can be browsed and accessed through terminology and lookup services or portals. | ||
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For linked data applications it is sufficient for an entity | ||
with `@type="DefinedTerm"` to link to an `@id` pointing to the IRI | ||
of the referenced concept. In other cases, more information is needed to search and view defined term information | ||
without having to lookup external resources. Those use cases are the target of this profile. | ||
E.g., a domain-specific search engine | ||
can create faceted search based on the `name` property, like e.g. done in TeSS. | ||
Aforementioned terminology services also offer linking and query interfaces | ||
beyond IRIs as parameters. | ||
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Another possible use of a conformant `DefinedTerm` | ||
is to enable creating hyperlinks to other web ressources, e.g. | ||
https://bio.tools/t?inputDataFormatID=%22format_3244%22 | ||
or provide tool-tips if the `description` is provided. | ||
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It is not intended to duplicate the content and expressivity | ||
of powerful ontology representations and serialisations like OWL or RDF. |