ontologies

The ontologies tab of the MatWerk workbook currently holds 109 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

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Columns

Column	ROBOT	Property	Meaning
Name*	I	obo:IAO_0000235	denoted by
Link (URL / PID) to repository	I	obo:IAO_0000235	denoted by
Link (URL / PID) to documentation	I	obo:IAO_0000235	denoted by
Short description	I	obo:IAO_0000235	denoted by
License	I	nfdi:NFDI_0000142
Acronym	A	nfdi:NFDI_0010015	has acronym

How to read it

• The entity is typed nfdi:NFDI_0000023 (ontology) 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
written name	obo:IAO_0000590	105
source code repository	nfdi:NFDI_0000030	101

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_0000023> ; <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 ontologies tab of the workbook.

Competency questions

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

1. Which ontologies are used or developed in NFDI-MatWerk?
2. What is the version and licence of a given ontology, and where is it published?
3. Which ontology is reused by a given metadata standard or 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	ontologies
Submitted by	the NFDI-MatWerk consortium
Also Known As	the ontologies template tab of the NFDI-MatWerk workbook
Intent	To represent a ontology 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 ontologies are used or developed in NFDI-MatWerk?; What is the version and licence of a given ontology, and where is it published?; Which ontology is reused by a given metadata standard or knowledge graph?
Solution description	An entity individual typed nfdi:NFDI_0000023 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	“Dislocation Ontology (DISO)” is a ontology, with name “Dislocation Ontology (DISO)”; link (url / pid) to repository “url 570”; link (url / pid) to documentation “url 666”.
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 ontologies tab of the NFDI-MatWerk curation workbook (109 rows at generation time)
Reengineered From	the ROBOT template directives in row 2 of that tab
Has Components	written name, source code repository
Specialization Of	the entity-and-value-node pattern shared by every tab (overview)
Related CPs	—

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) 3.0.1 — http://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	16 / 6
Classes / individuals	6 / 6

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.