Controlled Vocabulary

Definition

Informal conceptual model of a controlled vocabulary
Figure 1. Informal conceptual model of a controlled vocabulary
Types of controlled vocabularies
Figure 2. Types of controlled vocabularies

Identification

The considerations and justifications for the choices made are documented here.

All IRI templates conform to [RFC6570].
Part URI template

Controlled vocabulary

https://nbnl.info/{vocabulary}

Vocabulary term

https://nbnl.info/{vocabulary}/term/{reference}

where:

{vocabulary}

Path component — possibly nested — that identifies the profile.
{reference}

Local name of the resource.
Example: Energiesysteembeheer thesaurus
Part URI

Thesaurus

https://nbnl.info/energiesysteembeheer

Term

https://nbnl.info/energiesysteembeheer/term/sbiCodes

Representation

Resource Machine-processable Human-readable

Controlled vocabulary

SKOS, RDF

BegrippenXL, HTML

Vocabulary term

n/a

n/a

Versioning

Controlled vocabularies follow an evolution strategy where breaking changes are never allowed.

Through deprecation and introduction of new URIs and statements, newer and older versions of the vocabulary model all live in one schema.