FAIR Testing Resource Vocabulary (FTR)

Definition

The FAIR Testing Resource Vocabulary (FTR) is an ontology created to describe the results of FAIR Assessment in a consistent, machine-readable way. Its purpose is to help different FAIR assessment tools communicate the same language for transparency and reusability.

FTR is the application profile of the assessment components, acting as a reference model that extends W3C standards such as DCAT, DQV, PROV, and others to describe the different assessment components, such as:

  • Test: Service, formed by an API and associated piece of code that implements a Metric, and is executed (by a FAIR assessment tool), retrieving a particular and standardised result.

  • TestResult: Output of running a test over a resource. A test result should also contain provenance metadata about the process followed to create it. TestResult is represented as an extension of prov:Entity. A test result points to the corresponding test through the ftr:outputFromTest property.

  • TestResultSet: A set of FAIR test results, together with their respective metadata. Common metadata may describe the set. For example, if all results were run by a request to the same API.

  • TestExecutionActivity: The action carried out by an agent

calling an API in which a test (or set of tests) was run. The result of this activity is either a TestResult or a TestResultSet.

  • Metric: Narrative domain-agnostic description that a Test must wholly implement.

  • Benchmark: Community-specific groupings of a set of Metrics that provide a narrative describing how that community defines FAIR for assessment purposes.

  • ScoringAlgorithm: Piece of code that contextualises the sum of all test results for a given benchmark into a final quantitative assessment result.

  • ScoringAlgorithmActivity: The action carried out by an agent calling an API in which a ScoringAlgorithm was executed. The result of this activity is a BenchmarkScore.

  • BenchmarkScore: Output of a Scoring Algorithm over a resource, generating the final score and guidance for the whole assessment.

FAIR Testing Resource Vocabulary (FTR)

Specification

FAIR assessment validation

FAIR assessment validation