External Vocabulary
Standards and shorthand conventions used across FCP.
The following standards are highlighted because they are widely adopted across web, semantic, and linked-data systems. This list is not exhaustive; any external vocabulary standard may be used when it provides suitable property terms and complies with FCP requirements and restrictions.
Shorthand
Documentation and SDK implementations may use prefixed shorthand such as schema:name, which expands to the Fide ID Reference Identifier compliant https://schema.org/name.
Schema.org
Schema.org defines widely used web vocabulary for names, descriptions, relationships, and general-purpose properties.
SHOULD use for broadly adopted descriptive and relational terms.
- Valid:
schema:name - Valid:
schema:location - Valid:
schema:publisher
RDF
The RDF 1.1 Concepts namespace defines foundational RDF constructs used in graph-based data models.
SHOULD use for foundational constructs.
- Valid:
rdf:type - Valid:
rdf:Statement
RDFS
The RDF Schema namespace defines schema-level vocabulary for labels, comments, and other descriptive metadata.
SHOULD use for schema-level descriptive terms.
- Valid:
rdfs:label - Valid:
rdfs:comment
XSD
XML Schema Datatypes defines common literal datatype terms used with typed values.
SHOULD use for datatype terms.
- Valid:
xsd:string - Valid:
xsd:date - Valid:
xsd:boolean
ORG
The W3C Organization Ontology defines vocabulary for organization structure and related concepts.
SHOULD use for organization concepts.
- Valid:
org:Organization
PROV
The PROV Ontology defines provenance vocabulary for sources, derivation, generation, and related process semantics.
SHOULD use for provenance terms.
- Valid:
prov:generated - Valid:
prov:wasDerivedFrom
SEC
The W3C Security Vocabulary defines vocabulary for security and key material.
SHOULD use for security-related terms.
- Valid:
sec:PublicKey
OWL
The OWL 2 namespace defines ontology-level semantics used for stronger semantic assertions.
SHOULD use for ontology-level semantics.
- Valid:
owl:sameAs
SKOS
The SKOS Reference defines controlled vocabulary and concept-system semantics.
SHOULD use for controlled vocabulary terms.
- Valid:
skos:Concept - Valid:
skos:prefLabel