(part of the InLOC Information Model > InLOC properties > type)
The topic type
A LOCassociation of type topic gives the topic of a LOCstructure or LOCdefinition according to some topic (or "subject") catalogue, taxonomy, etc..
LOCassociation properties with topic as the type
| LOCassociation property |
expected | value | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | 0..1 | URI | |
| type | 1 | http://purl.org/net/inloc/topic | |
| subject.id | 1 | URI id of LOCstructure or LOCdefinition | |
| subject.label | 0 | empty (or literals) | used only if subject is defined externally |
| scheme.id | 1 | URI recommended | id of the topic catalogue, taxonomy, ontology, etc. |
| scheme.label | 0..* | literals | labels for the topic catalogue, etc. |
| object.id | 0..1 | identifier | the topic term as a URI, if globally unique; or id within the scheme |
| object.label | 0..* | literal | topic term(s) as string |
| number | 0 | integer | no usage defined |