COLID-Documentation | The documentation repository is part | Data Manipulation library

COLID-Documentation is a HTML library typically used in Utilities, Data Manipulation applications. COLID-Documentation has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Corporate Linked Data - short: COLID - is a technical solution for corporate environments that provides a metadata repository for corporate assets based upon semantic models. COLID assigns URIs as persistent and global unique identifiers to any resource. The incorporated network proxy ensures that these URIs are resolvable and can be used to directly access those assets. By following the Linked Data principles consequently, the data model of COLID uses RDF and provides the content through a SPARQL endpoint to consumers. This model was developed based on learnings from open standards like dcat and prov-o. Being both a management system for resolvable identifier and an asset catalog, COLID is the core service to realize Linked Data in corporate environments and therefore an essential cornerstone for FAIR data. Corporate assets, or resources, can be manifold: data sets, ontologies, reference data, models, studies, or documents. Each resource type has a set of metadata assigned, which may be optional or mandatory. Metadata can be open content like plain or HTML formatted descriptive text, or closely defined, for example date/time, binary flags, or keywords using open and closed sets of controlled vocabularies. Fields can be validated using SHACL constraints. Resources can have one or multiple Distribution Endpoints, which contain clickable links where users can directly access the resource or obtain further information about it. Besides the link URI, Distribution Endpoints hold their own set of metadata, depending on the type of the endpoint. Resources are often in specific relations to other resources. In COLID such relations defined in the underlying semantic model and can be explicitly assigned as links between resources. Linked resources are evaluated for search results scoring. Adding or editing the metadata set of a resource type or distribution endpoint is only a matter of changing the ontology that defines it and does not require a code change in the software. Functionality to read, maintain and administer COLID contents exists primarily in the backend as OpenAPI documented REST API endpoints. To satisfy the ‘Findability’ requirements of FAIR, we employ a full text search engine. Full text searching is augmented by search filters, that can be set for all metadata that hold a limited set of instances, for instance status values, contact persons or dates. These filters are configured automatically based on the ontology describing the metadata per resource type.