Resource

A resource is a reference to something outside the model — a license, a person, an organization, a publication — identified by a name and a URI. By pairing a human-readable label with a Uniform Resource Identifier, a resource lets an OntoUML model link out into the semantic web.

Structure

• JSON type: object
• Properties (both required):

Property	Type	Description
URI	string (uri) or null	The Uniform Resource Identifier of the resource.
name	languageString or null	The name of the resource.

Both properties are always present; when a value is unknown it is written explicitly as null rather than omitted. The name follows the languageString datatype, so a resource can be named in multiple languages.

{
  "name": { "en": "CC BY 4.0" },
  "URI": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

A resource with only a URI and no name:

{
  "name": null,
  "URI": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097"
}

Where it is used

resource is used for the metadata properties of a project that point at external entities:

Property	Shape	Described in
publisher	resource or null	the Project element
license	resource or null	the Project element
creators	resource[]	the Project element
contributors	resource[]	the Project element

note

resource is one of the reusable datatypes; the others are id, languageString, pointInTime, and point.