Claim Ontology

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont
Description An ontology for describing claims and their substantiation.
Prefixes: :: <http://w3id.org/claimont#>
dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
lrml: <http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/ns/v1.0/>
ns1: <http://w3id.org/>
owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>

Contents

Classes
Attestation, Attester, Claim, Claimant, Identity Claim, Object, Predicate, Report, Subject, Substantiation
Properties
comprisesClaims, hasObject, hasPredicate, hasSubject, isMadeBy, isSupportedBy, supports

Classes

Attestation

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Attestation
SKOSDefinition
An indefeasible statement, usually formal, made by an entity according to which they have witnessed or been presented with sufficient evidence to consider a specific claim made by another entity as truthful or accurate.
Comments
A verifier's statement is an example of an attestation.
SubClass Of

Attester

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Attester
SKOSDefinition
An entity (e.g., a person, an organisation or a system) that makes an attestation.

Claim

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Claim
SKOSDefinition
A defeasible statement about a thing.
Comments
A Claim may comprise other Claims.
SubClass Of
Superclass Of
In Domain Of
In Range Of

Claimant

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Claimant
SKOSDefinition
An entity (e.g., a person, an organisation or a system) that makes a claim.

Identity Claim

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#IdentityClaim
SKOSDefinition
A statement made by a claimant about their identity, usually with reference to some identification system.
SubClass Of

Object

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Object
SKOSDefinition
The target or value associated with the predicate of a claim or an attestation.
In Range Of

Predicate

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Predicate
SKOSDefinition
The characteristic, attribute, or relationship asserted about the subject of a claim or an attestation.
In Range Of

Report

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Report
SKOSDefinition
A claim made according to some specification.
SubClass Of

Subject

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Subject
SKOSDefinition
The thing about which a statement (i.e., a claim or an attestation) is made.

Substantiation

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#Substantiation
SKOSDefinition
A thing presented in support of the truthfulness of a claim.
Superclass Of
In Domain Of
In Range Of

Properties

comprisesClaims

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#comprisesClaims
Domain
Range

hasObject

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#hasObject
Domain
Range

hasPredicate

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#hasPredicate
Domain
Range

hasSubject

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#hasSubject
Comments
This property is used on the Claim and Attestation classes. For a Claim the value assigned to this property must be a Subject; for an Attestation the value must be a Claim. This is enforced by owl:Restriction (see the definitions of the Claim and Attestation classes.)

isMadeBy

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#isMadeBy
Comments
This property is used on the Claim and Attestation classes. For a Claim the value assigned to this property must be a Claimant; for an Attestation the value must be an Attester. This is enforced by owl:Restriction (see the definitions of the Claim and Attestation classes.)

isSupportedBy

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#isSupportedBy
SKOSDefinition
Indicates that a claim is backed or reinforced by some form of substantiation or evidence.
Domain
Range
Inverse Of

supports

IRI: http://w3id.org/claimont#supports
SKOSDefinition
Indicates that a substantiation provides evidence or backing for a particular claim.
Domain
Range
Inverse Of