Submit new semantic artefacts
In order to publish a semantic artefact, you need to sign up for an account at the EcoPortal website:
Logged in users can navigate to the Browse page and click the Submit a semantic artefact button. The submission form requires to fill out some metadata about the submitted semantic artefact as shown in Figure 43:
- Name: name of the ontology.
- Acronym: ontology acronym (NOTE: It is not possible to change the ontology acronym afterwards).
- Administrators: the owners of the resource. Only registered users can be added as administrators of the ontology.
- Viewing restriction: choose if the submitted resource is public (all users, even unregistered users, can see it) or private.
- Categories: select the categories to which the resource belongs to improve the search tools.
- Groups: select the groups to which the resources belong. Groups associate ontologies from the same project or organisation, for better identification of the provenance
- View: check “this semantic artefact is a view of” to create a new semantic artefact as a view of a semantic artefact selected from the drop-down field.
- URI: The URI of the semantic artefact which is described by this metadata.
- Description: description of the semantic artefact.
- Representation language: the model used to create the semantic artefact (e.g. SKOS, OWL, OBO).
- Status: semantic artefact release status: alpha, the semantic artefact is actively in development after the previous release and being tested internally; beta, the semantic artefact is feature-complete and being tested internally; production, the semantic artefact has passed all stages of verification and test; retired, the semantic artefact is no longer supported or is obsolete, and it will not be implemented any more.
- Location: the place from which the semantic artefact is retrieved: Metadata Only, choose this option if you want users to search and view only the semantic artefact metadata; Load from URL, new versions loaded daily; Upload Local File, choose a file from the local file system to upload the semantic artefact.
- Date of the original creation: date of the semantic artefact first release.
- Contact: details of a contact person (name and email).
Check the “Subscribe to email notifications for new notes” box to receive updates from users of the EcoPortal community.
Figure 43: Wizard for the submission of a new semantic artefact
Once the mandatory fields are completed, click on the “Finish” button in order to generate the summary page of the semantic artefact. Then click on the pencil button on the top right side of the summary page (Figure 45) to edit metadata and add more information about the semantic artefact (Figure 44).
To request the DOI, you can check the box “Check this box if your asset has no PID and you want to request a DOI”, which can be found in the “Other identifier” metadata field. LifeWatch ERIC is a member of DataCite and it can provide a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to semantic artefacts that do not have one. DOIs allow semantic artefacts to be cited in scientific publications or elsewhere in a reliable and sustainable way. EcoPortal assigns a DOI only upon verification and validation of the semantic artefact. The DOI is connected to the metadata of the resource as well as to its digital location (e.g. the URL) where all the details about the resource are available. For more detailed information about metadata properties, refer to the General Information of the Metadata schema table.
Figure 44: Wizard for adding/editing metadata of the submission for semantic artefacts.
Once the semantic artefact is submitted, users can immediately access the metadata, whereas the classes/properties indexing takes place asynchronously and it might be scheduled overnight. When the parsing of the semantic artefact is completed, an email is sent to the administrators of the semantic artefact. The whole submission should be completed by the next day; if not, please send an email to the support team (semantics@lifewatch.eu).