SemanticTextAnnotation DRAFT Profile

Version: 0.1-DRAFT-2019_02_08 (08 February 2019)

Bioschemas profile, based on Biotea model, describing a semantic annotation associated to a piece of text in a ScholarlyArticle in Life Sciences.

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Schema.org hierarchy

This Profile fits into the schema.org hierarchy as follows:

Thing > CreativeWork

Description

A SemanticTExtAnnotation currently corresponds to an expression identified in a ScholarlyArticle and associated to an ontology term. It could apply as well to documents other than ScholarlyArticle, for instant patents and so.

Latest profiles

Latest release: none

Latest draft: 0.2-DRAFT-2020_12_03

Previous profiles

Previous version: none

Contributors

The following people have been involved in the creation of this specification document. They are all members of the Scholarly Publications group.

Group Leader(s)

Alexander Garcia

Leyla Jael Castro

Other team members

Olga Ximena Giraldo

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

Group	Use Cases	Cross Walk	Task & Issues	Examples	Live Deploys
Scholarly Publications

You can read the release version of this specification here.

Key to specification table

Green properties/types are proposed by Bioschemas, or indicate proposed changes by Bioschemas to Schema.org
Red properties/types exist in the core of Schema.org
Blue properties/types exist in the pending area of Schema.org
Black properties/types are reused from external vocabularies/ontologies

CD = Cardinality

Property	Expected Type	Description	CD	Controlled Vocabulary	Example
Marginality: Minimum.
@context	URL	Used to provide the context (namespaces) for the JSON-LD file. Not needed in other serialisations.	ONE		Property ≪@context≫ example `{ "@context": "https://schema.org/" }`
@type	Text	Schema.org/Bioschemas class for the resource declared using JSON-LD syntax. For other serialisations please use the appropriate mechanism. While it is permissible to provide multiple types, it is preferred to use a single type.	MANY	Schema.org, Bioschemas	Property ≪@type≫ example `{ "@type": "Collection" }`
@id	IRI	Used to distinguish the resource being described in JSON-LD. For other serialisations use the appropriate approach.	ONE		Property ≪@id≫ example `{ "@id": "http://example.com/entity/A12345" }`
dct:conformsTo	IRI	Used to state the Bioschemas profile that the markup relates to. The versioned URL of the profile must be used. Note that we use a CURIE in the table here but the full URL for Dublin Core terms must be used in the markup (http://purl.org/dc/terms/conformsTo), see example.	ONE	Bioschemas profile versioned URL	Property ≪dct:conformsTo≫ example `{ "http://purl.org/dc/terms/conformsTo": { "@id": "https://bioschemas.org/profiles/SemanticTextAnnotation/0.1-DRAFT-2019_02_08", "@type": "CreativeWork" } }`
mainEntity	Thing DefinedTerm	Schema: Indicates the primary entity described in some page or other CreativeWork. Inverse property: mainEntityOfPage. Bioschemas: Ontology terms associated to this annotation. On the DefinedTerm, use additionalType to link to a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) semantic type (TUI) or group, and sameAs to link to the corresponding concept unique identifier (CUI), if available.	MANY
text	Text	Schema: The textual content of this CreativeWork. Bioschemas: Expression found in the text corresponding to this annotation.	MANY
Marginality: Recommended.
commentCount	Integer	Schema: The number of comments this CreativeWork (e.g. Article, Question or Answer) has received. This is most applicable to works published in Web sites with commenting system; additional comments may exist elsewhere. Bioschemas: Number of times this annotation is found in the associated scholarly article.	ONE
creator	Organization Person SoftwareApplication	Schema: The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork. Bioschemas: Person, organization or software application used to create this annotation.	MANY
dateCreated	Date DateTime	Schema: The date on which the CreativeWork was created or the item was added to a DataFeed.	ONE
position	Integer Text BreadcrumbList URL	Schema: The position of an item in a series or sequence of items. Bioschemas: A list of links that can help a user understand and navigate to a section or paragraph in the scholarly article where this annotation is located. If a text is used, different steps on the list should be separated with the character ‘>’, being the sentence where the annotation is found the last element. If a URL is used, it should identify the section or paragraph where this annoation is found.	ONE
subjectOf	CreativeWork Event ScholarlyPublication	Schema: A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. Bioschemas: The ScholarlyPublication where this annotation is found.	ONE
Marginality: Optional.
dateModified	Date DateTime	Schema: The date on which the CreativeWork was most recently modified or when the item’s entry was modified within a DataFeed.	MANY
identifier	PropertyValue Text URL	Schema: The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details. Bioschemas: If available.	ONE
inLanguage	Language Text	Schema: The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. See also availableLanguage. Supersedes language.	ONE
isAccessibleForFree	Boolean	Schema: A flag to signal that the item, event, or place is accessible for free. Supersedes free.	ONE
license	CreativeWork URL	Schema: A license document that applies to this content, typically indicated by URL.	ONE