Workflow DRAFT Profile
Version: 0.1-DRAFT-2019_02_08 (08 February 2019)
Bioschemas specification for describing a workflow in the Life Sciences
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Contributors
The following people have been involved in the creation of this specification document. They are all members of the Workflow group.
Group Leader(s)
Other team members
Schema.org hierarchy
This Profile fits into the schema.org hierarchy as follows:Thing > CreativeWork > HowTo
Description
A workflow consists of an orchestrated and repeatable pattern of activity enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. It can be depicted as a sequence of operations, the work of a person or group, the work of an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. (source Wikipedia.org).
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| Group | Use Cases | Cross Walk | Task & Issues | Examples | Live Deploys |
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Key to specification table
Schema.org properties where the Expected Types have been changed, or new (i.e., Bioschemas created) properties/types are green.
Schema.org properties/types are red.
Pending Schema.org properties/types are blue.
External (i.e., from 3rd party ontology) properties/types are black.
CD = Cardinality
| Property | Expected Type | Description | CD | Controlled Vocabulary | Example |
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| Marginality: Minimum. | |||||
| identifier |
PropertyValue Text URL |
Schema: The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details. |
ONE | ||
| name |
Text |
Schema: The name of the item. |
ONE | ||
| url |
URL |
Schema: URL of the item. |
ONE | ||
| Marginality: Recommended. | |||||
| description |
Text |
Schema: A description of the item. |
ONE | ||
| image |
ImageObject URL |
Schema: An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
MANY | ||
| Marginality: Optional. | |||||
| accessibilityAPI |
Text |
Schema: Indicates that the resource is compatible with the referenced accessibility API (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values). Bioschemas: If an API is available for the whole workflow, all the available commands should be name |
MANY | ||
| audience |
Audience Text |
Schema: An intended audience, i.e. a group for whom something was created. Supersedes serviceAudience. Bioschemas: Domain of field this workflow is intended for, e.g., life sciences, software devloper, genomics researchers, medical sciences |
MANY | ||
| sameAs |
URL |
Schema: URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item’s identity. E.g. the URL of the item’s Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website. |
MANY | ||