VOAG Catalog Entry
TopQuadrant attribution
TopQuadrant, Inc.
http://www.topquadrant.com
Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Inc.
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VOAG stands for "Vocabulary Of Attribution and Governance". The ontology is intended to specify licensing, attribution, provenance and governance of an ontology. VOAG captures many common license types and their restrictions. Where a license requires attribution, VOAG provides resources that allow the attribution should be made. Provenance is defined in terms of source and pedigree. A miminal model of governance is provided based on how issues, releases and changes are managed. VOAG does not import, but makes uses of some concepts from VOID (http://vocab.deri.ie/void), notably void:Dataset.
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VOAG
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Provides a schema for intellectual capital rights, attribution and governance. Uses the PROVO ontology for provenance. Typical use of the ontology is to refer to its resources, as opposed to importing the ontology.
Ralph Hodgson
Licensing, Attribution and Governance
1.0
Vocabulary Of Attribution and Governance
2011-01-31T10:00:00
2012-11-01
http://voag.linkedmodel.org/1.0/owl/schema/voag
http://voag.linkedmodel.org/voag
Vocabulary Of Attribution and Governance
Governance Process
A "Process".
Icon
A logo of some kind
Creative Commons Prohibition
something you may be asked not to do
Publication Status
1
1
Party
Priority value
Product logo
Product logo is used for products, solutions, etc.
Issue Resolution Process
A "Governance Process".
Attribution logo
Creative commons jurisdiction
Creative Commons Jurisdiction
the legal jurisdiction of a license
Requirement
An action that may or may not be requested of you
an action that may or may not be requested of you
Non-Concurrence Event
A "Governance Event".
Deletion Event
A "Archival Event".
Governed service
1
1
Qualifier
Confidentiality level
An enumerated codelist for values thath pertain to the security of a set of resources, or a resource. In 'lmc' an ontology can carry a property to denote its confidentiality.
Change type
Change Type provides an indicator for how an artifact has or will change in the future. This indicator is important to understanding the stability of an ontology.
Vocab graph
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Document
0
description
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1
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1
Pedigree
The origin or source of something. The primary purpose of provenance is to capture the time, place, and if appropriate the person responsible, for the creation, production or provisioning of some information object.
1
Pedigree captures aspects of an artifact that have to do with maturity, quality, salience, and accredidation.
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1
Rejection Event
A "Governance Event".
Schema graph
1
Creative commons work
Creative Commons Work
A potentially copyrightable work
Governance Event
A "Governance Event".
Retreival Event
A "Archival Event".
Approval Event
A "Governance Event".
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A set of RDF triples in an ontology graph specified according to VOAG.
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Graph
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Provenance
The origin or source of something. The primary purpose of provenance is to capture the time, place, and if appropriate the person responsible, for the creation, production or provisioning of some information object.
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Provenance specifies the origin or source of some artifact. The primary purpose of provenance is to capture the time, place, and if appropriate the person responsible, for the creation, production or provisioning of The artifact. Provenance also captures a record of how a version may have been superceded by another version of the artifact.
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1
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captures issues such as raising of an issue related to a particular entity in a registry
Issue
1
Standard
An industry, de facto or de jure standard
Metadata Enumerated value
The base class in LMC for enumerated values
Administrative Event
An event that is associated with the admistration aspect of governance. Typically these are curation events.
Person
0
1
Organization
Review
A "Governance Event".
1
1
Process
1
License Model
A License Model describes the licensing conditions associated with a software artifact.
1
1
An 'Attribution' specifies how credit should be given when citing the creators of a piece of work. Attribution must use the specified attribution text and optionally use logos that are provided in the attribution details below., with the names of points of contact.
Attributed Source
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The name, url and other details of an attribution.
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1
1
Event
1
1
1
1
Approval Process
A "Governance Process".
1
Governed Object
1
An abstract class for all governed entities
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0
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Service
Logo
Logo is ...
Accredidation
1
Catalog
An index to a set of resources
1
Governance is mainly concerned with how an artifact is provisioned and managed over its lifecycle. Governance also concerns the status tracking and processes that need to exist on information objects and services for a successful initiaitve, mission, program, or project. Such governance needs to outline the relationships between all internal and external groups involved, describe the proper flow of information regarding to all stakeholders, ensure the appropriate review of issues encountered and ensure that required approvals and direction are obtained at each appropriate stage.
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is ITAR
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a set of United States government regulations that control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List. These regulations implement the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, and are described in Title 22 (Foreign Relations), Chapter I (Department of State), Subchapter M of the Code of Federal Regulations. The Department of State interprets and enforces ITAR. Its goal is to advance national strategic objectives and U.S. foreign policy via the trade controls. For practical purposes, ITAR regulations dictate that information and material pertaining to defense and military related technologies may only be shared with US Persons unless approval from the Department of State is received or a special exemption is used.
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Governance
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Figure
An illustration of some kind.
Assigned role
Issue Status
The status of an issue: "Closed", "Deferred", "Non issue", "Open", "Resolved".
Organization logo
A logo for an organization
Creative Commons Permission
An action that may or may not be allowed or desired
Governance Role
A "Role" with the following instance(s): "authorizer", "steward", "submitter".
Concurrence event
A Governance Event.
VOID Dataset
A set of RDF triples that are published, maintained or aggregated by a single provider.
1
1
1
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Image
Image is a class for figures, pictures, logos, and icons of various kinds
Widely adopted
Some adoption
Early adoption
Proposed
Unknown maturity
Experimental
In development
Maturity
1
Stakeholder Group
A Stakeholder Group is a party of people who have common interests and concerns.
Never
Daily
Weekly
Bi-Weekly
bi-weekly
Monthly
Bi monthly
bi-monthly
Quarterly
Bi quarterly
bi-quarterly
Annually
annual
Uncertain frequency
Change frequency
1
Designated Governance Role
A "Assigned Role" with the following instance(s): "Assurer", "Project Management", "Resource & Process Policy", "Technical Definitions", "User", "Verifier".
Change Management Process
A "Governance Process".
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Governance Protocol
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Governance is used to mean the processes that need to exist for a successful initiaitve, mission, program, or project. Such governance needs to outline the relationships between all internal and external groups involved, describe the proper flow of information regarding to all stakeholders, ensure the appropriate review of issues encountered and ensure that required approvals and direction for a 'GovernedEntity' is obtained at each appropriate stage.
reviewed by
References to which parties review a data or information asset.
has status
gives concurrence for
An object property that specifies what a party may need to give consent, in the form of agreement, either written or verbally for in the approval of some govenance concern. This is the inverse property of 'mayNeedConcurrenceFrom' and, as such, may be deprecated in the future.
has issue
A pointer to an issue that exists on a subject of interest.
jurisdiction
jurisdiction
has stakeholder
has applicable document
A document that is of help to application of the subject matter. Documents include specifications, models, standards, guidelines, handbooks and other special publications.
has provenance
A pointer to a provenance record that details the source, version and time of some subject of interest.
governs
A super-property of governance properties: 'approves', 'gives concurrence for', 'reviews' and 'witness to'.
accountable for
An object property used in governance that refers a resource to the party that is accountable for it.
has change management process
An object property that specifies a process that is used for managing change in a 'Governance Protocol'.
has pedigree
A reference to a description about the pedigree of something.
has change type
obsoleted by
priority
more permissions
supervised by
wintnessed by
source
has governance event
An event associated with governance processes.
has approval process
An object property that specifies a process that is used for approval in a 'Governance Protocol'.
has issue resolution process
has category
permits
permits
prepared by
has confidentiality
An object property that specifies a level of confidentiality. Typicall the range of this property will be 'voag:Confidentiality'.
frequency of change
has accredidation
has owner
has identifier
has reference document
is governed by
A pointer to who is responsible for the governance of some entity of interest. This is a two-way reference with the inverse property 'governs'.
has steward
A pointer to the person that is a curator.
reviews
legalcode
related issue
This property connects two issue events. Issues connected by this property must be about the same subject
witness to
submitted by
has logo
A property to reference an image that is used as a logo.
has value
has normative document
has anticipated change type
performed by
disposition status
An object propoert that denotes the state of a governance issue.
has protocol
A pointer to a record that holds governance information for one or more governed entities. Often governance can be shared across entities.
instigated by
has ontology architecture diagram
is approved by
References to which parties approve an entity.
prohibits
prohibits
requires
requires
may need concurrence from
An object property that specifies that a party may need to give consent, in the form of agreement, either written or verbally to the approval of some govenance concern.
participant
interest of
A pointer to parties who have an interest in an entity. This is a two-way reference with the inverse property 'interestIn'.
used by
The property 'usedBy' is a general property to record a dependency. One use is in stating how a schema or a vocabulary is used by another ontology graph.
has governance
owns
interest in
has approval status
An object property that referes to an enumerated value that denotes the state of an approval.
normative reference
approves
An object property that specifies that a party governs the approval of a resource.
instigating event
owner
has maturity
has process
A reference to a process description.
image map
use guidelines
derived from
documented at
The property 'vaem:documentedAt' is intended for general use as the name implies. In some cases the property could have scalar values and in other cases may need to refer to a first class concept that holds more information about a documentation resource. For this reason, the type of this property is set as 'rdf:Property' and the property is rangeless.
width
Width is typically used to specify an image's width attribute.
height
Height is typically used to specify an image's height attribute.
url of turtle file
Used to refer to a Turtle (N3) representation of an ontology
downloads
subject
intent
normative URL
subject
title
event date
url for HTML
proprietary
A boolean flag to indicate if an information asset is propretary.
image
The property 'vaem:image' points to an image using a URL.
usage
url
id
url address of RDF file
Used to refer to a an RDF XML representation of an ontology
attribution text
disposition
used to connect to the text describing disposition of something, for example, a disposition of an issue
release date
caption
A short description, typically used on a table or a figure.
point of contact
user ID
is FOSS
A boolean property to specify whether or not software is free or open source. Free and open-source software (F/OSS, FOSS) or free/libre/open-source software (FLOSS) is software that is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code.
curated graph URI
The property 'voag:curatedGraphURI' provides a means to specify the base URI of the specific version of the onotlogy that is being documented. In each versioned graph the 'vaem:namespace' carries a URI without a version number.
start date
licence
timestamp
owned by
end date
superceded by
A pointer to one or more 'GovernedEntities' that replace this entity.
supercedes
A pointer to one or more 'GovernedEntities' that are replaced by this entity.
related to
incompatible with
compatible with
Creative Commons Lesser Copyleft
derivative works must be licensed under specified terms, with at least the same conditions as the original work; combinations with the work may be licensed under different terms
TBD
tbd
deprecated on
No governance specified
Review
review
Unclassified
Unclassified is not technically a "classification"; this is the default, and refers to information that can be released to individuals without a clearance (Level 0). Information that is unclassified is sometimes restricted in its dissemination as SBU or FOUO. For example, the "law enforcement bulletins" often reported by the U.S. media when United States Department of Homeland Security raises the U.S. terror threat level are usually classified as "U//LES" or "Unclassified - Law Enforcement Sensitive." This information is only supposed to be released to Law Enforcement groups (Sheriff, Police, etc.) Because the information is unclassified, however, it is sometimes released to the public as well. Information which is unclassified, but which the government does not believe should be subject to Freedom of Information Act requests is often classified as U//FOUO - "Unclassified - For Official Use Only". In addition to FOUO information, information can be categorized according to its availability to be distributed (Distribution D may only be released to approved Department of Defense and Government Contractor personnel). Also, the statement of NOFORN (meaning No Foreign Nationals) is applied to any information which may not be released to any non-US Citizen. NOFORN and Distribution statements are often used in conjunction with classified information or alone on SBU information. Documents subject to export controls have a specific warning to that effect.
unclassified
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2
Disapproved Issue
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VOAG Logo
Low priority
low
Authorizer
authorizer
Non-issue
non-issue
Draft Status
draft
Top secret
"Top Secret" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe [US Executive Order 12958].
topsecret
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Final Status
LinkedModel ICON 200 x 80
LinkedModel Logo
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LinkedModel Standard ICON
Closed
closed
No provenance specified
Creative Commons Attribution
Credit to be given to copyright holder and/or author
Not Applicable
na
Refactoring change
Steward
steward
No pedigree specified
Turtle Icon 32 X 35
Turtle is a representation format for RDF/OWL.
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Turtle ICON
Creative Commons Notice
copyright and license notices be kept intact
High income nation use
Creative Commons High Income Nation Use
Use in a non-developing country
Submitter
submitter
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SPARQL Standard
80
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SPARQL Standard ICON
Creative Commons Commercial Use
Exercising rights for commercial purposes
Deferred
deferred
Interim Status
interim
Append change
Open
An issue with undetermined disposition,
open
Creative Commons Share Alike
derivative works be licensed under the same terms or compatible terms as the original work
RDF Icon 32 X 35
RDF Standard
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RDF Standard ICON
Sharing
Creative Commons Sharing
permits commercial derivatives, but only non-commercial distribution
Restricted
During and before World War II, the U.S. had a category of classified information called restricted, which was below confidential. The U.S. no longer has a restricted classification, but many other nations and NATO do. The U.S. treats "restricted" information it receives from other governments as confidential. The U.S. does use the term restricted data in a completely different way to refer to nuclear secrets.
restricted
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Modification change
exclude
Secret
"Secret" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe [US Executive Order 12958].
secret
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5
Documentation change
Reproduction
Creative Commons Reproduction
making multiple copies
Approved Issue
approved
Sensitive but Unclassified
Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) information should not be disclosed but is not national security information and cannot be classified according to Executive Order (EO)12958, as amended. These materials must be: properly marked, locked up when not under the supervision of an authorized person, and encrypted while in transit over a non-secure network. Some examples are: trade secrets, proprietary information, financial information, personnel and medical records, procurement-sensitive information, IT system security plans, contingency plans, audit logs (recordings of exceptions and other security-related events), vulnerability reports, incident reports and Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
sbu
4
3
Medium priority
medium
Obsolete
obsolete
Unknown Status
unknown
No attribution specified
Derivative works
Creative Commons Derivative Works
Distribution of derivative works
Resolved
resolved
Creative Commons Copyleft
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
combined works must be licensed under specified terms, similar to those on the original work
Copyleft is a general method for making a program (or other work) free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well. The simplest way to make a program free software is to put it in the public domain, uncopyrighted. This allows people to share the program and their improvements, if they are so minded. But it also allows uncooperative people to convert the program into proprietary software. They can make changes, many or few, and distribute the result as a proprietary product. People who receive the program in that modified form do not have the freedom that the original author gave them; the middleman has stripped it away. In the GNU project, Copyleft says that anyone who redistributes the software, with or without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and change it. Copyleft guarantees that every user has freedom.
High priority
high
Creative Commons Source Code
Source code (the preferred form for making modifications) must be provided when exercising some rights granted by the license.
None
none
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Distribution
Creative Commons Distribution
Creative Commons - distribution, public display, and publicly performance
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License