dfg-fachsystematik-ontology
DFG Fachsystematik Ontology - DFG Classification of Scientific Disciplines, Research Areas, Review Boards and Subject Areas
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DFG Fachsystematik Ontology - DFG Classification of Scientific Disciplines, Research Areas, Review Boards and Subject Areas
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- Stars: 3
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- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files
README.md
DFG Fachsystematik Ontology / DFG Classification of Subject Areas Ontology
DFG (The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - German Research Foundation) Classification of Scientific Disciplines, Research Areas, Review Boards and Subject Areas is published as a PDF or HTML (see links below).
We decided to build upon this work and build and RDF based ontology, for the DFG Classification of Subject Areas, so that browsing, searching and mapping (of subject number and its label) could be easy achieved by ontology/RDF processing software, such as ontology-lookup systems and tripe-stores.

Ontology
- Ontology TTL: dfgfo.ttl
- Ontology PURL: https://w3id.org/dfgfo/2024
- ontology prefix/id:
dfgfo

Create/update ontology
dfgfo.ttl ontology file is created, by scripts/create_ontology.py python script, which
- parses the DFG classification system encoded in csv/Fachsystematik_20XX-20XX.csv (in EN/DE) (cf. directory csv/ and csv/README.md)
- encodes each of the DFG's classification subjects (in .csv cells) into RDF graph triples
- of type
owl:Class - with
rdfs:labelin EN and skos:altLabel in DE - subsumed to parent subject with
rdfs:subClassOfaccordinng to DFG Classification hierarchy
- of type
- parses the metadata triples from metadata.ttl into a graph
- joins metadata and DFG classification graphs into dfgfo.ttl
Run
Create a python3 Virtual Environment
Install requirements pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt
Run script to create ontology python scripts/create_ontology.py. Make sure to use end of line sequence LF in the csv file used to create the ontology (for example when working on Windows).
Other scripts
- scripts/parse_csv.py parses the CSV and ensures that the columns
Subject NumberandFachnummerhave the same values
Ontology contributions
Contributions are welcome.
At every push or pull_request a ROBOT report and ROBOT validate OWL DL profile test will be run from .github/workflows/main.yml.
DFG Classification of Scientific Disciplines
- HTML page
- PDFs
- Edited CSV - combining both German and English labels
Releases
For previous versions (2020-2024) see https://github.com/tibonto/DFG-Fachsystematik-Ontology/releases
Use Cases
Are you or your institution using the DFG-Fachsystematik-Ontology? We would like to hear from you (via an issue), and include your use-case in this section.
- DaRUS - the data repository of the University of Stuttgart: DFGFO is used to classify datasets according to topic, see example 10.18419/darus-3988
Owner
- Name: TIB Onto
- Login: tibonto
- Kind: organization
- Email: chamanara@tib.eu
- Location: Hanover, Germany
- Website: https://projects.tib.eu/datamanager/ontologies/
- Repositories: 16
- Profile: https://github.com/tibonto
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title: DFG Fachsystematik Ontology
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metadata from this file.
type: software
authors:
- given-names: André
family-names: Castro
orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7839-3698'
- given-names: Susanne
family-names: Arndt
orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1019-9151'
- name: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ror: https://ror.org/018mejw64
repository-code: 'https://github.com/tibonto/DFG-Fachsystematik-Ontology'
abstract: >-
DFG Fachsystematik Ontology - DFG Classification of
Scientific Disciplines, Research Areas, Review Boards and
Subject Areas
keywords:
- ontology
- classification
- Scientific Disciplines
- taxonomy
license: CC-BY-4.0
commit: 372eef9b23ec8d35c1d030f80f034f25b8532634
version: '2020'
date-released: '2022-01-17'
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- actions/checkout v2 composite
- actions/upload-artifact v2 composite
- rdflib *