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matwerkpp

The matwerkpp tab of the MatWerk workbook currently holds 41 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
Label A rdfs:label label
Participant Project collabration name I obo:IAO_0000235 denoted by
participates in contacting process I obo:RO_0000056 participates in
Material/Methodology Description I obo:IAO_0000235 denoted by
Engagement statistics I obo:IAO_0000235 denoted by
has participant I obo:RO_0000057 has participant
Related IUCs I obo:RO_0000057 has participant
Project collabration objectives I obo:IAO_0000235 denoted by
has part PP I obo:BFO_0000051 has part
participates in project I obo:RO_0000056 participates in

How to read it

  • The entity is typed mwo:MWO_0001029 (matwerk participant project) 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.

Query it

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

SELECT ?x ?label WHERE { ?x a <http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/MWO_0001029> ; <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> ?label } LIMIT 10

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

Competency questions

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

  1. Which participant projects are part of NFDI-MatWerk?
  2. Which organisation runs a given participant project, and who leads it?
  3. Which resources has a participant project contributed to the knowledge graph?

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 matwerkpp
Submitted by the NFDI-MatWerk consortium
Also Known As the matwerkpp template tab of the NFDI-MatWerk workbook
Intent To represent a matwerk participant project 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 participant projects are part of NFDI-MatWerk?; Which organisation runs a given participant project, and who leads it?; Which resources has a participant project contributed to the knowledge graph?
Solution description An entity individual typed mwo:MWO_0001029 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 “PP1” is a matwerk participant project, with participant project collabration name “From atoms to turbine blades”; material/methodology description “Ni-based and Co-based single-crystal superalloys, metallic complex solid solutions / experiments and simulations”; engagement statistics “24 Project collabrations in CRC/TRR103, 10 of them on ‘Machine-Learning and Material Informatics‘”.
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 matwerkpp tab of the NFDI-MatWerk curation workbook (41 rows at generation time)
Reengineered From the ROBOT template directives in row 2 of that tab
Has Components
Specialization Of the entity-and-value-node pattern shared by every tab (overview)
Related CPs matwerkta

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 14 / 5
Classes / individuals 5 / 5

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.