A minimal domain ontology for representing the scientific method as provenance chains.
Links an entity to its reified uncertainty model.
The nature of the uncertainty (Aleatory or Epistemic).
The agent who attributed this entity (Agent).
Publishing scope (e.g., local, institutional, public).
The actual text content of the evidence.
Character offset where the selection ends.
The exact text that was selected/highlighted.
The content or comment of the annotation (optional for highlights).
The source being annotated (DOI, URL, or file reference).
Page number in PDF documents where the selection appears.
Text immediately before the selection (for disambiguation).
Flag indicating if this is ready for public promotion.
Character offset where the selection starts (within the target or page).
Text immediately after the selection (for disambiguation).
A provenance activity. Identified by its RDF URI.
A provenance agent. Identified by its RDF URI.
Aleatory uncertainty entities must have nature Aleatory.
Ambiguity is inherently Epistemic uncertainty.
The activity of processing a Dataset to produce a Result.
A text annotation or highlight that grounds Questions or Evidence in specific source text. Follows W3C Web Annotation Data Model.
The final claim or decision derived from the ResultAssessment.
A collection of data, published or curated by a single agent.
Raw data, observations, or measurements produced by experimentation.
The activity of creating an ExperimentalMethod from a Hypothesis.
A provenance entity. Identified by its RDF URI.
A factual claim extracted from a source.
The activity of evaluating credibility or relevance of Evidence.
The activity of articulating Evidence claims from one or more Annotations. Separates the act of reading/highlighting from the act of formulating evidence statements.
A specification of the experimental or computational method.
The activity of running an ExperimentalMethod to produce a Dataset.
The activity of synthesizing Evidence into a Hypothesis.
A mixin for objects that have a unique identifier.
Incompleteness is inherently Epistemic uncertainty.
The activity of searching literature and creating Annotations (highlights, notes) on source text.
A configured parameter within an Experimental Method.
An evaluated proposition or insight derived from Evidence.
An interrogative sentence representing the research query.
The activity of creating or refining a Research Question. Can be informed by prior results (iterating on findings) or by literature search (refining questions based on discovered evidence).
The activity of comparing a Result to the original Hypothesis.
A selector that identifies text by exact quote with surrounding context. Follows W3C Web Annotation TextQuoteSelector.
Root evidence class from URREF ontology.
Describes how the uncertainty was assessed.
A mixin for objects that can have a reified uncertainty model.
Vagueness is inherently Epistemic uncertainty.
An Entity (Evidence/Result) that provides negative evidence against a Hypothesis.
The selector identifying the specific part of the target.
A Question that triggers or motivates an Activity.
A Result that suggests a specific modification to a Hypothesis.
An Entity (Evidence/Result) that provides positive evidence for a Hypothesis.
The activity that generated this entity.