Overview

The SSbD Core Ontology provides semantic annotations for the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach to guide the innovation process for chemicals and materials. It adheres to the recommendations specified by DCAT-AP 3.0.1 as implemented in Tripper, and builds on PROV-O for provenance. It is constructed to be easily aligned with EMMO.

Warning

The SSbD Core Ontology is still under development and may change without notice. It is not intended for production at the current stage.

SSbD Core Ontology documentation

Theoretical background

• Background, including handling of provenance and categorisation of relations into parthood, causal and semiotic relations.

• Documentation of sub-modules:

  • Matter module

  • Models module

  • SSbD Assessments module

• Class-level documentation.

• Guiding principles for the implementation of the SSbD Core Ontology.

• Turtle file including all imported concepts (source of truth).

• Inferred turtle file reasoned with HermiT.

Reference documentation

The generated reference indices include interlinked definitions of classes and properties, and include all annotations and relations included in the ontology.

• Main reference documentation contains all classes and properties.

• Property reference index contains all properties, including their domains and ranges.

• Models reference index, a sub-module of the ontology including categorisation of statistical, physics and data-based (AI) models.

• Matter reference index, a sub-module of the ontology including categorisation of substances, materials, molecules, etc.

• SSbD taxonomy reference index contains classes within the SSbD Assessments module.

• CHEMINF descriptors reference index contains the taxonomy of descriptors from mainly the chemistry domain.

In addition, WIDOCO-generated documentation is provided for most modules:

• Core module terms

• Reused terms

• Matter

• Models

• CHEMINF descriptors

Top level taxonomy

The taxonomy below shows a basic categorisation of the main concepts (OWL classes) in the SSbD Core Ontology. It unifies concepts from common vocabularies, like Dublin Core, PROV-O, DCAT and FOAF. This gives the adapted terms additional context. However, the taxonomy is intentionally weakly axiomatized in order to facilitate alignment to different popular top-level ontologies, like EMMO, DOLCE and BFO.

Usage example

The example below shows how one can document a toxicity computation using the SSbD Core Ontology.

Quick intro to documenting resources with tables

The documentation of a resource with the SSbD Core Ontology can be done with any editor that allows you to create tables and save them as CSV files. This process is explained in more detail in the tutorial on documenting your data using tables.