Title: Biodiversity Data Quality Fitness for Use Framework (Ontology)
Date version issued: 2026-11-09
Date created: 2024-04-13
Part of TDWG Standard: http://www.tdwg.org/standards/YYY
This version: https://rs.tdwg.org/version/bdqffdq/2026-11-09
Latest version: https://rs.tdwg.org/bdqffdq/
Abstract: The classes and object properties found in this ontology are dedicated to fundamental and derived concepts from the Fitness For Use Framework described in the paper by Veiga et al., available at: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0178731 as modified to describe data quality fitness for use Tests in the TDWG BDQ Standard.
Creator: TDWG Biodiversity Data Quality Interest Group Task Group 2: Data Quality Tests and Assertions

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

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2 Vocabulary versions

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3 Vocabulary distributions

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JSON-LD https://rs.tdwg.org/bdqffdq.json https://rs.tdwg.org/bdqffdq.json

4 Term lists that are part of this vocabulary

Label: Fitness For Use Framework Ontology Vocabulary Extension
List IRI: https://rs.tdwg.org/bdqffdq/extension/
Modified: 2026-11-09
Description: Axioms about bdqffdq terms that need blank nodes: restrictions on classes, owl:AllDisjointClasses, and owl:AllDifferent (a vocabulary extension term list, TDWG Standards Documentation Specification 4.4.2.2).

Label: Fitness For Use Framework Ontology terms
List IRI: https://rs.tdwg.org/bdqffdq/terms/
Modified: 2026-11-09
Description: Classes, properties, and named individuals of the Biodiversity Data Quality Fitness for Use Framework (Ontology)