ABIS Overview
Figure 1. Overview of the ABIS and it’s main parts.

1. Metadata

IRI

https://linked.data.gov.au/def/abis

Title

Australian Biodiversity Information Standard

Definition

This is the Standard Definition of the Australian Biodiversity Information Standard (ABIS). It formally defines the parts of the standard.

Created

2021-12-13

Modified

2024-09-24

Issued

2023-12-04

Creator

KurrawongAI, Gaia Resources, TERN and the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

Publisher

Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Further information

See the core repository that contains all the resources used to create ABIS: https://ausbigg.github.io/abis

2. Preamble

2.1. Abstract

This is the Standard Definition of the Australian Biodiversity Information Standard (ABIS). It formally defines the parts of the standard.

2.2. Normative Status

This Standard Definition is normative for the structure of the ABIS and take precedence over other expressions of the Standard’s structure.

3. Introduction

This Standard is a multi-part publication that consists of human-readable documents, such as this one, the Overview and Specification, and machine-readable artifacts, such as data validators.

This Standard and its parts are defined here in human-readable form and in machine-readable form according to the Profiles Vocabulary [PROF].

The following sections describe the parts and how they relate to each other and other standards using terminology from the Profiles Vocabulary.

Note
 The document that describes the business rules and other requirements of ABIS is the Specification, not this document.

3.1. Profiles Vocabulary overview

The Profiles Vocabulary [PROF] is a World Wide Web Consortium standard for the formal description of Standards, their parts, and how they relate to other Standards.

The use of the word 'profile' here is due to the way Standards reuse other Standards: if one extends another and remains faithful to its rules, it can be said to profile it.

Standards described using PROF:

  • provide a standard definition

    • this is the overarching description of the standard which is independent of any of the particular resources within the standard

  • describe multiple resources within the Standard

    • each part of a Standard is described using roles, formats, online or other locations and other metadata

    • roles are defined formally by a roles vocabulary within PROF

  • indicate what they are profiles of

    • if a Standard extends/constrains another Standard, and many do, this is indicated in a formal way

    • data that conforms to a Standard extending another must also conform to all the Standards being extended

3.2. ABIS Parts

Table 1 gives a listing of this Standard’s parts, known as resources, their roles and their persistent identifers which are also web links to them.

Table 1. Resources in this Standard
Resource Role Description PID

Standard Definition

(this document)

Profile Definition

Defines this Standard’s parts and relations to other Standards

https://linked.data.gov.au/def/abis

Standard Definition - machine-readable

Profile Definition

Defines this Standard’s parts and relations to other Standards in machine-readable form

https://linked.data.gov.au/def/abis.ttl

Overview

Guidance

Provides a high-level, non-technical view of ABIS

https://linked.data.gov.au/def/abis/overview

Specification

Specification

The normative ABIS specification

https://linked.data.gov.au/def/abis/specification

Validator

Validation

Machine-actionable validators to test data claiming conformance to ABIS

https://linked.data.gov.au/def/abis/validator

JSON-LD Context

Vocabulary

Machine-readable listing of RDF namespaces used by ABIS

https://linked.data.gov.au/def/abis/context.json

4. References