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FAIR by Design Ontology

The FAIR by Design ontology defines the controlled vocabulary used by the FAIR Data Station to validate and generate structured metadata.

Terms have one of three identifier types:

TypeExampleDescription
fairds:fairds:ageDefined by FAIR by Design (fairbydesign.nl/ontology/)
MIxShttps://w3id.org/mixs/...Part of the MIxS standard
Externalhttp://schema.org/...Defined by another ontology or standard

Browse all 865 terms using the sidebar on the left. Each term page shows the authoritative identifier, syntax, example values, and which metadata packages and ISA levels use that term.

Metadata packages group related terms for a specific experimental context (e.g. ENA Influenza virus reporting standard, pig, MIAPPE). Browse all 70 packages via the package section in the sidebar.