MODAVIS Ontology Network · version 0.1.0

Ontology specification · version 0.1.0

MODAVIS Ontology Network

A modular semantic standard for physical, digitized, and virtual musical instruments: their identity, changing states, components, evidence, scholarly assertions, audio regions, and processing provenance. Pipe organs are represented through a dedicated specialization of the instrument-neutral model.

Namespacehttps://w3id.org/modavis/

Network overview

The publication separates durable domain semantics from database internals and application-specific exchange mechanics. Public terms keep stable, unversioned IRIs; immutable release artifacts receive version IRIs.

15modules
95classes
162object properties
68datatype properties
58SKOS concepts
81SHACL shapes

In scope

  • Stable identity and multilingual naming
  • Instrument-neutral components and contextual functional roles
  • States, configurations, events, evidence, assertions, and provenance
  • Digital surrogates, fixed audio regions, and virtual-instrument identity
  • Contextual heritage recognition and checksum-fixed knowledge revisions
  • Pipe-organ specialization without making it the universal model

Deliberately separate

  • Operational database tables and workflow state
  • VAO ZIP paths, archive rules, and application profiles
  • Authentication, authorization, cache, and deployment behavior
  • Unreviewed external alignments and mutable vocabulary snapshots

Module architecture

Core supplies common identity and temporal foundations. Domain modules reuse it without importing the VAO container vocabulary.

Instrumentgeneric instruments, components, roles
Evidencesnapshots, fragments, selectors, fixity
Media & audiosurrogates, assets, signals, regions, playback
Eventsdomain history and participation
MODAVIS Coreidentity · agents · places · time
Organoptional instrument specialization
Virtual instrumentplayable identity, products, versions, packages, sources
Assertionsclaims, conflicts, editorial decisions
ProvenancePROV-O-compatible processing lineage

Published modules

Each module has a stable ontology IRI, immutable 0.1.0 version IRI, human-readable term page, and generated Turtle, JSON-LD, and RDF/XML distributions. Links point to the immutable 0.1.0 Turtle distributions.

assertion32 terms

MODAVIS Assertion Ontology

Explicit source-backed assertions, conflicts, editorial decisions, and convenience-graph projections.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/assertion
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/evidence/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/provenance/0.1.0
Turtle source
audio61 terms

MODAVIS Audio and Sampled Playback Ontology

Protocol-neutral semantics for fixed audio signals, source-bound half-open frame regions, sampled-playback parameters, and tuning maps.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/audio
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/instrument/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/media/0.1.0
Turtle source
context8 terms

MODAVIS Assertion Context Ontology

RDF 1.1 semantics for explicitly qualifying the contextual applicability of identified assertions without conflating context with provenance.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/context
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/assertion/0.1.0
Turtle source
core29 terms

MODAVIS Core Ontology

Stable identity, naming, typing, spatial, and temporal concepts shared by the MODAVIS Ontology Network.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core
Imports
No imports
Turtle source
events12 terms

MODAVIS Event Ontology

Historical and domain events with participants, affected entities, time, place, sources, evidence, and processing provenance.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/events
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/evidence/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/provenance/0.1.0
Turtle source
evidence22 terms

MODAVIS Evidence Ontology

Citable source resources, captured snapshots, precise fragments, selectors, checksums, and qualified evidence relations.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/evidence
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0
Turtle source
heritage33 terms

MODAVIS Heritage Knowledge Ontology

Contextual heritage recognition, curated knowledge collections, fixed knowledge snapshots, revision lineage, and accountable historical-claim review.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/heritage
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/instrument/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/evidence/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/provenance/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/assertion/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/media/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/virtual-instrument/0.1.0
Turtle source
instrument26 terms

MODAVIS Instrument Ontology

Instrument-neutral semantics for musical instruments, states, components, configurations, memberships, classifications, and contextual functional roles.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/instrument
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0
Turtle source
media15 terms

MODAVIS Media and Digital Representation Ontology

Representation-neutral semantics for digital surrogates, managed assets, bitstreams, fixity, derivation, and representation status.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/media
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/evidence/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/provenance/0.1.0
Turtle source
midi15 terms

MODAVIS MIDI Binding Ontology

MIDI-specific bindings for protocol-neutral MODAVIS audio regions, sampled-playback parameters, and tuning records.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/midi
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/audio/0.1.0
Turtle source
network0 terms

MODAVIS Ontology Network

A modular semantic standard for evidence-backed, time-aware, provenance-aware knowledge about musical instruments, their digital representations, and virtual realizations.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/instrument/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/evidence/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/provenance/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/assertion/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/events/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/organ/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/media/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/virtual-instrument/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/audio/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/midi/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/context/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/heritage/0.1.0 · mdvsv:0.1.0
Turtle source
organ18 terms

MODAVIS Pipe Organ Ontology

Pipe-organ specialization of the generic MODAVIS instrument, component, membership, configuration, and role model.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/organ
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/instrument/0.1.0
Turtle source
provenance12 terms

MODAVIS Provenance Ontology

A conservative PROV-O profile for MODAVIS processing, editorial, digitization, and release activities.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/provenance
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/evidence/0.1.0
Turtle source
virtual-instrument28 terms

MODAVIS Virtual Musical Instrument Ontology

Semantics for playable virtual instruments, product identities, versions, packages, compatibility, and evidence-qualified relations to source instruments and states.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/virtual-instrument
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/core/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/instrument/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/media/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/evidence/0.1.0 · https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/assertion/0.1.0
Turtle source
vocabularies71 terms

MODAVIS Controlled Vocabularies

Reviewed SKOS concept schemes used by the MODAVIS 0.1.0 ontology and validation profiles.

Canonical IRI
https://w3id.org/modavis/vocab
Imports
https://w3id.org/modavis/ontology/assertion/0.1.0
Turtle source

Related exchange standard

Virtual Acoustic Object · VAO 0.4.0

VAO is a downstream container and application profile, not an ontology module. Its final co-release binding uses MODAVIS 0.1.0 terms directly and adds an exact VAO-owned mapping.

MODAVIS OntologiesInstruments, components, states, configurations, evidence, assertions, events, provenance, and governed concepts.
VAO · .vaoOne ZIP64 object containing the semantic graph, audio, 3D models, animations, interaction data, paradata, analyses, rights, and fixity.
OrgRec & VAOMOrgRec uses VAO as its primary exchange format. VAOM is the instrument-neutral manager, validator, and authoring environment.
Co-release interoperability contractVirtual pipe-organ example

Dependency direction: VAO 0.4.0 binds to the immutable MODAVIS 0.1.0 network and owns the conservative mapping graph. MODAVIS does not import VAO; the two validation regimes remain separate.

Term reference

This reference is generated from the reviewed OWL and SKOS release graphs. Search by label, compact name, IRI, definition, or module.

Release evidence

Technical validation, accountable review, and release authorization are recorded separately in the versioned release evidence.

Release completeness boundaryThis page contains the complete inventory of named OWL classes, object properties, datatype properties, SKOS concept schemes, and SKOS concepts from every published module, plus principal named relationships. The release includes per-module pages, alternate serializations, versioned SHACL profiles, examples, context, a DCAT catalog, a manifest, and checksums.
  • Turtle syntax, SHACL fixtures, reasoning, SKOS quality, and competency tests pass
  • Deterministic release site, archive, catalog, manifest, and checksum builder
  • Creator, publisher, ORCID, licenses, governance, citation, security, and concrete W3ID rules
  • VAO interoperability boundary, virtual pipe-organ example, and legacy MDVS compatibility shape
  • Accountable domain, ontology-engineering, and implementation reviews recorded
  • Release authorization and immutable publication record

Citation and responsibility

The citation names the immutable ontology release and its public distribution location. Affiliations describe the creator’s research context and do not imply institutional publication or endorsement.

Versioned citation

Dominik Ukolov. MODAVIS Ontology Network. Version 0.1.0. Ontology release. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7904-3892.

Affiliations: Digital Humanities (Image/Object), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena · Research Group DIGITAL ORGANOLOGY, Leipzig University