A process, used to engender knowledge, attitudes and skills, that the described resource is designed to support.
Instructional Method
Instructional Method will typically include ways of presenting instructional materials or conducting instructional activities, patterns of learner-to-learner and learner-to-instructor interactions, and mechanisms by which group and individual levels of learning are measured. Instructional methods include all aspects of the instruction and learning processes from planning and implementation through evaluation and feedback.
The AGIFT classification for this dataset
Defines a relation that denotes the Level of Government of an Organisation, typically a Government Agency.
Date of acceptance of the resource.
Date Accepted
Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal).
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status.
Access Rights
Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
A process that is used to engender knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
Method of Instruction
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Universal Decimal Classification.
UDC
An entity responsible for making the resource available.
Publisher
Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity.
A second property with the same name as this property has been declared in the dcterms: namespace (http://purl.org/dc/terms/). See the Introduction to the document "DCMI Metadata Terms" (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/) for an explanation.
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Library of Congress Classification.
LCC
A bibliographic reference for the resource.
Bibliographic Citation
Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible.
National Archives of Australia
The AGLS Metadata Terms Namespace provides URIs for the AGLS Metadata Terms Vocabulary. Vocabulary terms are declared using RDF Schema language to support RDF applications. The AGLS Metadata Terms form a richer vocabulary, which is intended to facilitate discovery of resources. It will be updated according to AGLS Working Group decisions.
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2007
The AGLS Metadata Terms Namespace providing access to its content by means of an RDF Schema.
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant.
Coverage
Spatial topic and spatial applicability may be a named place or a location specified by its geographic coordinates. Temporal topic may be a named period, date, or date range. A jurisdiction may be a named administrative entity or a geographic place to which the resource applies. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]. Where appropriate, named places or time periods can be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges.
The set of codes listed in ISO 3166-1 for the representation of names of countries.
ISO 3166
A set of function encoding schemes and/or formats
Function Class
The set of dates and times constructed according to the W3C Date and Time Formats Specification.
W3C-DTF
A statement about the intellectual property rights (IPR) held in or over a Resource, a legal document giving official permission to do something with a resource, or a statement about access rights.
Rights Statement
A class of entity for whom the resource is intended or useful.
Audience
A set of service encoding schemes and/or formats
Service Class
A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.
Rights Holder
A system of signs, symbols, sounds, gestures, or rules used in communication.
Linguistic System
Examples include written, spoken, sign, and computer languages.
This is a stub class which allows us to defer which external vocabulary to adopt. Adoption can be at run-time through a owl:equivalentClass axiom in the data - likely to be w3 geo or OGC GeoSPARQL or both, or something else as proposed by SDWWG.
A Spatial Thing describes the spatial characteristics of the resources within a Dataset, i.e. the geographical area where data was collected, a place which is the predominant subject of the Dataset, or a location which is the focus of an activity described in the Dataset.
Spatial Thing
Describes the anticipated frequency of updates of a Dataset.
A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource.
License
An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful.
Mediator
In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver.
Defines a relation that denotes the Local Government representing a Locality (a Spatial Thing).
A related resource that is a version, edition, or adaptation of the described resource.
Has Version
This term is intended to be used with non-literal values as defined in the DCMI Abstract Model (http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/). As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage Board is seeking a way to express this intention with a formal range declaration.
How the resource can be obtained or accessed, or contact information.
Availability
The set of conceptual resources specified by the National Library of Medicine Classification.
NLM
A group of agents.
Agent Class
Examples of Agent Class include groups seen as classes, such as students, women, charities, lecturers.
A set of agent encoding schemes and/or formats
AGLS Agent Class
A plan or course of action by an authority, intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters.
Policy
Date (often a range) of validity of a resource.
Date Valid
The set of agents defined by contact details according to Dublin Core Structured Values
AAGLS Agent Scheme
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.
Identifier
Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of a resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation.
Provenance Statement
A method by which resources are added to a collection.
Method of Accrual
A related resource that is required by the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence.
Requires
A language of the resource.
Language
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646 [RFC4646].
The size of a distribution in bytes.
File Size
A related resource that is supplanted, displaced, or superseded by the described resource.
Replaces
The set of labeled concepts specified by the Medical Subject Headings.
MeSH
The form of the resource where category = 'document'.
Document Type
Document is used in its widest sense and includes such things as software, sound files and images.
Spatial extent corresponds to the geographic area within which all items in the dataset fall.
A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation.
Is Version Of
Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format.
A class of entity, defined in terms of progression through an educational or training context, for which the described resource is intended.
Audience Education Level
An interval of time that is named or defined by its start and end dates.
Period of Time
The set of points in space defined by their geographic coordinates according to the DCMI Point Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Point
A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated.
Standard
Note that this is a subclass of the Interval class from OWL-Time.
A Time Interval describes a time period (interval) during which data was collected or observations were made that are described in the Dataset.
Time Interval
States and Territories Government are the second tier of Government in the Commonwealth of Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia comprises of six states and various territories some of which enjoy a large degree of self-governance.
State and Territories Government
Date of creation of the resource.
Date Created
An AssociatedOrganisation is an Organisation that is responsible for an Event that changed a Dataset the Organisation is associated with.
A relation that associates a Catalog, Dataset or Distribution to its license document under which it is made available.
The set of resource availability or physical access to a resource defined by contact details according to Dublin Core Structured Values
AGLS Availability Scheme
A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation.
Provenance
The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource.
DCMI Metadata Terms - other
Federal Government denotes the federal democratic administrative authority of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Federal Government
The topic of the resource.
Subject
Typically, the subject will be represented using keywords, key phrases, or classification codes. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.
A spatial region or named place.
Location
A relation to define the main category of the dataset. A dataset can have multiple themes.
A book, article, or other documentary resource.
Bibliographic Resource
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource.
Format
Examples of dimensions include size and duration. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the list of Internet Media Types [MIME].
Level of Government is a description that is used to describe the Jurisidiction of an Organisation.
Level of Government
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Spatial Coverage
The three-letter alphabetic codes listed in ISO639-2 for the representation of names of languages.
ISO 639-2
A physical material or carrier.
Physical Medium
Examples include paper, canvas, or DVD.
A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format.
Is Format Of
An alternative name for the resource.
Alternative Title
The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific.
A specific legal instrument which requires a resource to be created or made available.
Mandate
A related resource.
Relation
Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource.
Creator
Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Creator should be used to indicate the entity.
A media type or extent.
Media Type or Extent
A related resource from which the described resource is derived.
Source
The described resource may be derived from the related resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource.
Date
Date may be used to express temporal information at any level of granularity. Recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as the W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF].
The set of audience types specified by the AGLS Audience Scheme.
AGLS Audience Vocabulary
Defines a relation that denotes the beloning of an Agent to an Organisation.
A set of document encoding schemes and/or formats
Document Class
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
Temporal Coverage
A summary of the resource.
Abstract
Defines a Dataset to be part of a Catalog.
A relation to define when the Dataset was updated, i.e. a minor change that is not reflected in a Dataset Change Event.
Update Date
The form of the resource where category = 'service'.
Service Type
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Is Part Of
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 5646 for the identification of languages.
RFC 5646
RFC 5646 obsoletes RFC 4646.
An Organisation is a kind of Agent representing, for example, a business or government, or organisational subunits thereof.
Organisation
An account of the resource.
Description
Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource.
The extent or range of judicial, law enforcement, or other authority.
Jurisdiction
The set of tags, constructed according to RFC 1766, for the identification of languages.
RFC 1766
A legal document giving official permission to do something with a Resource.
License Document
Provides information about the maintenance arrangements for the dataset. At a minimum the Agent and start-time for the maintenance responsibility is required.
Dataset Maintenance Arrangement
Date of submission of the resource.
Date Submitted
Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal).
The set of labeled concepts specified by the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
LCSH
A set of jurisdiction encoding schemes and/or formats
Jurisdiction Class
Defines the URLs that contains the Distribution of the Dataset in a given format.
The set of media types specified by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
IMT
A set of availability encoding schemes and/or formats
Availability Class
A name given to the resource.
Title
A resource that acts or has the power to act.
Agent
Examples of Agent include person, organization, and software agent.
The set of regions in space defined by their geographic coordinates according to the DCMI Box Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Box
Local Government is the lowest tier of government in the Commonwealth of Australia administered under the states and territories.
Local Government
A digital resource format.
File Format
Examples include the formats defined by the list of Internet Media Types.
Defines a relation that associates a Catalog, Dataset or Distribution with its (one) main Web page that can be navigated to in a Web browser to gain access to the dataset, its distributions and/or additional information.
Date a license was applied or became effective.
Date Licensed
Links to a description of a maintenance activity.
A Dataset is a collection of resources, published or curated by an agent, and openly available for download in one or more formats.
Dataset
The business function to which the resource relates.
Function
A specific piece of case law which requires or drives the creation or provision of the resource.
Case
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
Medium
A dimension or extent, or a time taken to play or execute.
Size or Duration
Examples include a number of pages, a specification of length, width, and breadth, or a period in hours, minutes, and seconds.
A relation that defines the Role someone plays in a Dataset Change event defined through an Association entity.
The nature or genre of the resource.
Type
Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the DCMI Type Vocabulary [DCMITYPE]. To describe the file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource, use the Format element.
Defines a relation that relates a Dataset Change Event to a Dataset. Typically, at least, a Publishing Change Event should be defined that describes when a Dataset is published on the Web.
Temporal extent corresponds to the time interval within which all items in the dataset occur.
Locality is a Spatial Thing corresponding to a place or area, which is denoted by a commonly recognised, or formally designated, name or description.
A Role corresponds to the involvement of an Agent in an Event, e.g. fulfilling a publisher, contributor or custodian Role.
Role
Defines a relation between a Dataset and the URL that contains the distribution of the dataset in a given format.
Date on which the resource was changed.
Date Modified
The set of occupations specified by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations
The set of places specified by the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
TGN
Defines a relationship for the Agent responsible for a DatasetChangeEvent through an Association that defines the Organisation that the Agent is associated with for that Event.
The set of identifiers constructed according to the generic syntax for Uniform Resource Identifiers as specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
URI
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource.
Contributor
Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organization, or a service. Typically, the name of a Contributor should be used to indicate the entity.
An established standard to which the described resource conforms.
Conforms To
Information about rights held in and over the resource.
Rights
Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights.
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 3066 for the identification of languages.
RFC 3066
RFC 3066 has been obsoleted by RFC 4646.
The generic type of the resource being described.
Category
There are only three valid values for this property, 'service', 'document' or 'agency'.
Defines a relation that associates a Thing to a Dataset that describes the Dataset in more detail.
Examples of a Creator include a person, an organization, or a service.
A classifier used for Australian Government Data.
Defines the available distribution(s) for a Dataset.
The policy governing the addition of items to a collection.
Accrual Policy
The set of time intervals defined by their limits according to the DCMI Period Encoding Scheme.
DCMI Period
The set of conceptual resources specified by the Dewey Decimal Classification.
DDC
A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource.
Has Part
Defines an association between a Dataset Change Event (e.g. Publishing) and an Association that defines the Agent and/or the Organisation responsible for that Change Event.
The data.gov.au Dataset Ontology is an OWL ontology designed to describe the characteristics of datasets published on data.gov.au. The ontology contains elements which describe the publication, update, origin, governance, spatial and temporal coverage and other contextual information about the dataset. The ontology also covers aspects of organisational custodianship and governance. By using this ontology to describe datasets on data.gov.au publishers increase discoverability and enable the consumption of this information in other applications/systems as Linked Data. It further enables decentralised publishing of catalogs and facilitates federated dataset search across sites, e.g. in datasets that are published by the States. Other publishers of Linked Data may make assertions about data published using this ontology, e.g. they may publish information about the use of the dataset in other applications.
Australian Government Linked Data Working Group
Dataset Ontology
The frequency with which items are added to a collection.
Accrual Periodicity
The set of three-letter codes listed in ISO 639-3 for the representation of names of languages.
ISO 639-3
A related resource that requires the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence.
Is Required By
A keyword associated with the Dataset.
Keyword
Document
A Government Agency is a kind of Organisation in the Commonwealth of Australia that is a distinct and recognisable body which has responsibility for carrying out administrative functions.
Government Agency
Defines an agent who is the contact for inquiries on a Dataset.
A related resource that is substantially the same as the pre-existing described resource, but in another format.
Has Format
This is a stub class which allows us to defer which external vocabulary to adopt. Adoption can be at run-time through a owl:equivalentClass axiom - likely to be from WGS84_pos or OGC GeoSPARQL or both, or something else as proposed by the W3C SDWWG.
A Point is a point in space using its geographic coordinates.
Point
The Field of Research defined by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) that best describes the type of methods applied to obtain the data contained within a Dataset.
Field of Research
Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available.
Date Available
The date a change was made.
Change Event Date
A Catalog is a curated collection of metadata about datasets.
Catalog
The set of tags constructed according to RFC 4646 for the identification of languages.
RFC 4646
RFC 4646 obsoletes RFC 3066.
A related resource that supplants, displaces, or supersedes the described resource.
Is Replaced By
A file format or physical medium.
Media Type
Locality with a name authorised by a government agency
Spatial Gazetteer
A specific regulation which requires or drives the creation or provision of the resource.
Regulation
A list of subunits of the resource.
Table Of Contents
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1
A protective marking applied to the resource.
Protective Marking
Geographic coordinates expressed as latitude and longitude.
Geocode
A related resource that is a performance, production, derivation, translation or interpretation of the described resource.
A Distribution defines the available form of a Dataset, i.e. different formats of the Dataset or different type of endpoints the Dataset can be retrieved from.
Distribution
This is a stub class which allows us to defer which external vocabulary to adopt. Adoption can be at run-time through a owl:equivalentClass axiom in the data - likely to be from WGS84_pos or OGC GeoSPARQL or both, or something else as proposed by the W3C SDWWG.
Polygon
Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organization, or a service.
The set of classes specified by the DCMI Type Vocabulary, used to categorize the nature or genre of the resource.
DCMI Type Vocabulary
The level of aggregation of the described resource.
Aggregation Level
There are only two values possible for this refinement, either item or collection.
The size or duration of the resource.
Extent
A Dataset Change Event is a description of an event that happens at a given point in time and that results in any type of change to the Dataset.
Dataset Change Event
A location, period of time, or jurisdiction.
Location, Period, or Jurisdiction
The method by which items are added to a collection.
Accrual Method
The purpose of a Dataset.
A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource.
References
Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organization, or a service.
Defines the State or Territory a Locality is located in.
A material thing.
Physical Resource
Date of copyright.
Date Copyrighted
The Government Function defined by the Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus that best describes the data contained within a Dataset.
Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource.
Date Issued
The set of agents defined by contact details according to X500 syntax.
Government Online Directory
A rate at which something recurs.
Frequency
A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource.
Is Referenced By
A Dataset Publication Event is a description of an event that happens at a given point in time and that results in the publication of a Dataset on data.gov.au.
Dataset Publication Event
A specific piece of legislation which requires or drives the creation or provision of the resource.
Act
A related resource of which the described resource is a performance, production, derivation, translation or interpretation.
A Publisher plays the Role of uploading the Dataset to data.gov.au.
The name of the political/administrative entity covered by the resource.
Jurisdiction is a description of the territory over which a particular government exercises its authority or a particular business transacts its operations, to which the resource content is applicable.