MAVA Ontology

Metadata

IRI
http://example.org/mava/ontology#
Title

MAVA Ontology

Publisher

ETH Zurich

Creator

Swiss Data Science Center

Date Created

2025-08-12

Date Modified

2025-08-12

Date Issued

2025-08-12

License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Version Info

0.0.1

Description
  • This ontology provides classes and properties for representing corpora, documents, media resources, time and/or text annotations. It is designed to be a reference point for data exchange across annotation tools in linguistics.

  • Ontology for corpora, documents, media resources, time and/or text annotations in linguistics.

Classes

Video Corpus c

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#VideoCorpus
Description

A collection of videos that share a common context or purpose.

Sub Class Of dcterms:Collection
In Domain Of has member op

Video c

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#Video
Description

A media resource consisting of a sequence of images creating the illusion of movement.

Sub Class Of dcterms:MovingImage
In Domain Of has analysis op
In Range Of has member op

Annotation Series c

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#AnnotationSeries
Description

A series of annotations for a video that align to intervals on its timeline.

In Domain Of
In Range Of

Annotation Segment c

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#AnnotationSegment
Description

A defined portion of a timeline marked by a specific start and end time with an annotation that relates to that segment of the video.

In Domain Of

Observation Series c

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#ObservationSeries
Description

A collection of observations at time points in a video.

In Domain Of
In Range Of

Observation Point c

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#ObservationPoint
Description

A single quantitative value recorded at a specific point on the timeline of a video.

In Domain Of

Object Properties

has member op

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#hasMember
Description

Relates a video to a corpus.

Domain Video Corpus c
Range Video c

has analysis op

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#hasAnalysis
Description

Relates a video to an analysis series.

Domain Video c
Range

belongs to annotation series op

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#belongsToAnnotationSeries
Description

Relates an annotation segment back to the annotation series it is a member of.

Domain Annotation Segment c
Range Annotation Series c

belongs to observation series op

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#belongsToObservationSeries
Description

Relates an observation point back to the observation series it is a member of.

Domain Observation Point c
Range Observation Series c

Datatype Properties

series description dp

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#seriesDescription
Description

Describes an analysis series.

Domain
Range xsd:string

value description dp

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#valueDescription
Description

Describes the meaning of values in an analysis series.

Domain
Range xsd:string

time at dp

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#atTime
Description

Time of an observation measured from the start of the video in seconds.

Domain Observation Point c
Range xsd:decimal

start time dp

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#startTime
Description

Start time of an interval measured from the start of the video in seconds.

Domain Annotation Segment c
Range xsd:decimal

end time dp

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#endTime
Description

End time of an interval measured from the start of the video in seconds.

Domain Annotation Segment c
Range xsd:decimal

probability value dp

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#numericValue
Description

A numeric value representing a probability observation.

Domain Observation Point c
Range xsd:decimal

list of annotations dp

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#listValue
Description

A list of string or numeric values representing an annotation.

Domain
Range List

annotation value dp

IRI http://example.org/mava/ontology#stringValue
Description

A string value representing an annotation.

Domain
Range xsd:string

Namespaces

adms
http://www.w3.org/ns/adms#
dcterms
http://purl.org/dc/terms/
doap
http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#
mava
http://example.org/mava/ontology#
owl
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
rdf
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
rdfs
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
xsd
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#

Legend

c Classes
op Object Properties
dp Datatype Properties

made by p y LODE 3.2.1 with the OntPub profile

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