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The dataset tab of the MatWerk workbook currently holds 30 rows. Every row follows the same shape, and that shape is the pattern below: a entity instance carrying the row's identity, denoted by value node nodes that hold its values, and object properties pointing at entities in other tabs.

Generated from the live sheet and MWO 3.0.1 by scripts/gen_patterns.py — regenerate it rather than editing it by hand.

The pattern

Drag the nodes, change the layout, or use Group to collapse a namespace. The picture is the example only; the declarations and annotations behind it are in module.ttl.

Columns

Column ROBOT Property Meaning
Title I obo:IAO_0000235 denoted by
Field of research I nfdi:NFDI_0000211
Dataset participates in publishing process I obo:RO_0000056 participates in
Method I nfdi:NFDI_0000216
is about portion of matter I obo:IAO_0000136 is about
Short description I obo:IAO_0000235 denoted by
Data type(s) I obo:BFO_0000051 has part
License I nfdi:NFDI_0000142
Creator(s) I obo:BFO_0000051 has part
Creator(s) affiliation I obo:BFO_0000051 has part
Contributor(s) I obo:BFO_0000051 has part
Contributor(s) affiliation I obo:BFO_0000051 has part
Link (URL / PID) I obo:IAO_0000235 denoted by
Link to related Publication(s) I obo:IAO_0000235 denoted by

How to read it

  • The entity is typed nfdi:NFDI_0000009 (dataset) and carries only its identity, its label, and links.
  • A column marked I does not contain a value — it contains the label of another instance, which ROBOT resolves at build time. That is why every value node needs a unique label, and why a typo produces a silently missing relation rather than an error.
  • Columns marked A are literals on the entity itself.

Components (value nodes)

These value-node types live in the workbook's shared req_2 tab but belong to this pattern — they exist to describe it, and are counted by how often this tab references them.

Component Class References
creator list nfdi:NFDI_0001032 26
textual entity obo:IAO_0000300 22
institution list nfdi:NFDI_0001033 22
portion of matter <https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0000001> 10
data item obo:IAO_0000027 3

Query it

Retrieve instances of this pattern from the MatWerk Knowledge Graph (SPARQL endpoint):

SELECT ?x ?label WHERE { ?x a <https://nfdi.fiz-karlsruhe.de/ontology/NFDI_0000009> ; <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000235> ?d . ?d <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> ?label } LIMIT 10

The rows behind it are curated in the dataset tab of the workbook.

Competency questions

The questions this pattern exists to answer. Each is answerable against the published graphs.

  1. Which datasets does NFDI-MatWerk provide, and under which licence?
  2. Who created a given dataset, and at which organisation?
  3. Which dataset is described by a given metadata standard?
  4. Which datasets relate to a given material or academic discipline?

Pattern metadata

The Ontology Design Patterns content-ODP annotation schema, in the community's own field order, so a reader who knows ODP pages can read this one without translation.

Field Value
Name dataset
Submitted by the NFDI-MatWerk consortium
Also Known As the dataset template tab of the NFDI-MatWerk workbook
Intent To represent a dataset in the MatWerk Knowledge Graph: its identity, the value nodes that describe it, and its links to the other entities the NFDI-MatWerk consortium records.
Domains research data management; NFDI consortium structure
Competency Questions Which datasets does NFDI-MatWerk provide, and under which licence?; Who created a given dataset, and at which organisation?; Which dataset is described by a given metadata standard?; Which datasets relate to a given material or academic discipline?
Solution description An entity individual typed nfdi:NFDI_0000009 carries identity and label; each descriptive value is a separate value node individual reached by obo:IAO_0000235 (denoted by); links to other patterns are object properties onto those entities. Identity is a minted IRI msekg:<epoch_ms><counter>, so re-running the pipeline is idempotent.
Reusable OWL Building Block module.ttl — the example together with the axioms of every term it uses, extracted from the ontology, so the file stands alone
Consequences Values become reusable and independently addressable, and a value may be shared by many entities. The cost: every I reference resolves by label, so labels must be unique and a typo yields a silently missing relation rather than an error.
Scenarios “Datasets for the analysis of dislocations at grain boundaries and during vein formation in cyclically deformed Ni micropillars” is a dataset, with title “Datasets for the analysis of dislocations at grain boundaries and during vein formation in cyclically deformed Ni micropillars”; field of research “Computational analysis, Dislocations, Grain boundaries, Vein structures”; dataset participates in publishing process “dataset publishing process 1”.
Known Uses the MatWerk Knowledge Graph (https://nfdi.fiz-karlsruhe.de/matwerk), published as Virtuoso named graphs
Web References https://nfdi-matwerk.de · https://ise-fizkarlsruhe.github.io/mwo/
Other References https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202502331
Examples (OWL files) pattern.ttl — one real row of the tab, with its value nodes resolved
Extracted From the dataset tab of the NFDI-MatWerk curation workbook (30 rows at generation time)
Reengineered From the ROBOT template directives in row 2 of that tab
Has Components creator list, textual entity, institution list, portion of matter, data item
Specialization Of the entity-and-value-node pattern shared by every tab (overview)
Related CPs process, sparql_endpoints, fdos

Provenance and versioning

Field Value
Pattern version 1.0.0
Authors Harald Sack · Jörg Waitelonis · Ebrahim Norouzi · Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi — the authors of the ontology these patterns are derived from (dcterms:creator of MWO 3.0.1)
Derived from ontology MatWerk Ontology (MWO) 3.0.1http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/mwo.owl/3.0.1
Reused ontologies BFO 2020 (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo.owl), NFDIcore (https://nfdi.fiz-karlsruhe.de/ontology/), IAO (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl), RO (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro.owl)
Ontology licence CC BY 4.0 (repository); CC0 1.0 declared in the ontology header
Cite the ontology as Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi, Jörg Waitelonis, Ebrahim Norouzi, Kostiantyn Hubaiev, Harald Sack. NFDI MatWerk Ontology (mwo). Revision: v3.0.1. Retrieved from: http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/3.0.1
Generated scripts/gen_patterns.py, 2026-08-04

Formal characterisation

Measure Value
Consistency consistent — ROBOT 1.9.10, reasoner HermiT, merged with MWO 3.0.1
DL expressivity RRESTRCUCINTUNIVRESTREROIF — measured on the pattern together with a STAR module of exactly the terms it uses, so the figure describes this pattern rather than the whole ontology
Axioms / logical axioms 31 / 11
Classes / individuals 10 / 11

Consistency

pattern.ttl is checked against MWO 3.0.1 with ROBOT (--reasoner hermit) — the same reasoner process_spreadsheets runs over every generated module. A pattern that contradicts the ontology fails the documentation build.