Achievement Standards Network Application Profile (ASN-AP)
| Title: | Achievement Standards Network Application Profile |
| Creator: | GEM Exchange |
| Contributors: | Diny Golder, JES & Co. Bruce Fulton, JES & Co. Ryan Laundry, GEM Exchange Stuart A. Sutton, GEM Exchange Bruce Walker, JES & Co. |
| Date Issued: | 2005-08-12 |
| Date Modified: | 2009-09-06 |
| Status of Document: | ASN recommendation |
| Description of Document: | This document is an application profile (AP) that clarifies the use of the properties in the description of Achievement Standards Network (ASN) standards document and the document statement. |
| Description Set Profile: | A machine-readable XML file defining the ASN Description Set Profile (DSP) useful in configuring metadata generation tools for authoring ASN achievement standards descriptions: http://purl.org/ASN/schema/ASN-DSP/. Machine generated PDF documentation of the ASN-DSP.xml schema is available: ASN-DSP.pdf. The ASN DSP conforms to the DCMI Description Set Profile specification documented at http://dublincore.org/documents/2008/03/31/dc-dsp/ with an XML schema available at http://www.purl.org/ASN/xsd/dcmi-dsp.xsd. |
1. Introduction
For a general introduction to Achievement Standards Network (ASN) data, see How the ASN Works. The ASN abstract and data models are based on the DCMI Abstract Model (http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/) and its associated principles. The schema used to describe the two entities in the ASN conceptual model are drawn from a number of different publicly declared namespaces as set out in Section 3 below. In essence, the ASN is an application profile (ASN-AP) that has been encoded following the constraint language set out in Description Set Profiles: A Constraint Language for Dublin Core Application Profiles (http://dublincore.org/documents/2008/03/31/dc-dsp/). As an extensible metadata schema, the ASN embraces the DCMI principles of property (element) refinement and dumb-down.
2. ASN Conceptual Model
- The ASN Conceptual Model is framed in terms of two entities:
- The standards document representing the promulgated standard as a whole; and
- The statement representing an individual achievement assertion in the standards document. The standards document is comprised of a set of related statements.
- All standards documents and statements conforming to the ASN Conceptual Model are identified by globally unique identifiers in the form of URI that are dereferencable over the Web.
- A set of core properties define the relationships between the standard document and statements and between statement dyads. The relationships defined in the core are of two types:
- Structural relationships: Structural properties are responsible for replicating the necessary structural relationships between components of the standards document—e.g., structuring hierarchies of statements in the form of taxon paths and establishing the relationship between a standards document and its set of component statements.
- Semantic relationships: Semantic properties define relationships of meaning between statements including assertions of equivalence or other forms of conceptual synergy of any useful sort. For example, the «crossSubectReference» property asserts that a statement in one standards document is related in an interdisciplinary manner to a statement in a second standards document.
- The statement entity is of two kinds—original and derived:
- Original statements: Statements in standards documents formally promulated by a jurisdiction are called original statements in the ASN. Original statements are jurisditionally binding.
- Derived statements: Third parties may create derived statements that refine original statements. Derived statements have no jurisdictional binding and are clearly identifed as "derived." For example, a 3rd party may create in its own namespace a derived statement, or set of derived statements, that decompose an original statement into more granular derived statements to meet particular business needs. Conformant derived statements, like original statements, are identified by URI, are described using ASN statement properties (or property refinements (sub-properties) and utilize appropriate structural and relational properties associating them with original statements and other derived statements.
- The set of core ASN properties is extensible. The current set of properties will be extended to support additional structural and semantic relationships as they emerge in standards documentation and in use of standards data.
- At a minimum, dereferencing a standards document or original or derived statement URI must return the metadata describing the entity identified by the URI including any structural and semantic references to other ASN entities.
The following figure illustrates the entities and relationships in the ASN Conceptual Model.
3. Namespaces Used for ASN Properties
The ASN standards document and statement descriptions uses properties from the following namespaces:
- ASN (Achievement Standards Network) Terms [http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/]
- DCMI Metadata Terms [http://purl.org/dc/terms/]
- GEM Core Terms [http://purl.org/gem/elements/]
- GEM Qualified Terms [http://purl.org/gem/qualifiers/]
- FOAF (Friend of a Friend) [http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/]
- SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) [http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/]
4. Summary Table and Index of ASN Properties
Entity Legend:
Document Entity = D
Statement Entity = S
| Entity | Property Label | Context-Specific Definition |
|---|---|---|
| D / S | Align From | A standards document or statement from which the statement or document being described is aligned. |
| D / S | Align To | A standards document or statement to which the statement or document being described is aligned. |
| D / S | Author | A person or organization chiefly responsible for the intellectual content of the standards document or derived statements. |
| S | Authority Status | The status of a standards statement denoting whether the statement owes its origin to the promulgating agency of the standards document of which the statement is a member (i.e., value "Original") or to some 3rd party (i.e., value "Derived"). |
| S | Comment | Supplemental text provided by the promulgating body that clarifies the nature, scope or use of the statement being described. |
| S | Concept Keyword | Denote the significant topicality of the achievement standard using free-text keywords and phrases derived and assigned by the indexer, e.g., "George Washington", "Ayers Rock", etc. |
| S | Concept Term | Denotes the topicality of the achievement standard—e.g., "Phythagorean Theorem", "Trigonometric functions", "Forces and energy", "Scientific method", "Oral history" etc. |
| S | Created | Date of creation of a 3rd-party derived statement. |
| S | Cross Subject Reference | An explicit assertion by the promulgating agency that establishes a relationship between the statement being described and statement in a separate subject standards document (interdisciplinary statement references). |
| D | Date Copyrighted | Date of copyright of the standards document. |
| D | Date Valid | Where available, the date (often a range) of validity of a resource. |
| S | Derived From | The URI of a statement from which the statement being described has been derived. The «derivedFrom» property is used by 3rd parties only in derived statements and must appear in conjunction with a value of "Derived" in the statement's «authorityStatus» property. |
| D / S | Description | A description of the standards document. ♦ The text of the statement being described. |
| D / S | Education Level | A general statement describing the education or training context. Alternatively, a more specific statement of the location of the audience in terms of its progression through an education or training context. I.e., the grade or grade bands covered by the standards document or statement being described. |
| D | Export Version | [Deprecated*] The URI of the ASN export version of the standards file. |
| D | File Created | [Deprecated*] The specific date the ASN standards file was generated by the ASN repository. |
| D / S | Has Child | Identifies top-level child statements of the standards document being described. ♦ Identifies the child of a statement (establishes the downward path in the chain of statements in a taxon path). |
| S | Indexing Status | The indexing status of statement denoting whether correlators should or should not assign the statement during correlation--Values="Yes"/"No". |
| S | Is Child Of | The statement being described is lower in some arbitrary hierarchy than the statement identified in the «isChildOf» property. The statement identified is a parent of the statement being described (establishes the upward path in the chain of statements in a taxon path. [Currently not used in ASN data] |
| S | Is Part Of | The described statement is a physical or logical part of the referenced standards document. |
| D | Jurisdiction | A legal, quasi-legal, organizational or institutional domain of the entity mandating the use of the achievement standard--e.g., California, Singapore, NCTM. |
| D | Language | A language of the achievement standards document. |
| D / S | License | A legal document giving official permission to do something with the standards document or statement. |
| D / S | Local Subject | [Deprecated*] The text string denoting the subject of the document as designated by the promulgating agency. The local subject may be different from the ASN subject assigned a document or statement as an organizing mechanism in the ASN. |
| D | Note | A documentation note that describes signification changes or provides aids to administration. |
| D | Publication Status | The publication status of the of the standards document--e.g., "Draft", "Published", "Deprecated". |
| D | Publisher | An entity responsible for making the resource available. In the ASN, the publisher is the promulgating agency of the standards document. |
| D | Repository Date | The date the standards document was added to the ASN repository. |
| D / S | Rights | Information about rights held in and over the resource. |
| D / S | Rights Holder | A person or organization owning or managing rights over the standards document. |
| S | Skill Embodied | Cognitive, affective, psychomotor or other skill directly or indirectly embodied in the statement. |
| D | Source | The achievement standard document from which the ASN representation is derived. ♦ The URL and/or formal citation of the original achievement standard. |
| S | Spatial | Spatial characteristic of the statement (e.g. geospatial coordinates). |
| S | Statement Label | The textual label identifying the class of the statement as designated by the promulgating body—e.g., "Standard," "Benchmark," "Strand," or "Topic." |
| S | Statement Notation | An alphanumeric notation or ID code as defined by the promulgating body to identify the statement. |
| D / S | Subject | The learning area/discipline of the standards document or statement being described. |
| S | Temporal | Temporal characteristic of a statement (e.g., an historic period). |
| D | Title | A name given to the resource. |
[Deprecated*] terms remain valid but are no longer recommended
5. ASN Property Declarations
Format of entries: The property declarations summarized in the table above are described in detail in the tables below. The format and content of the property descriptions are set out here:
Property URI A Uniform Resource Identifier used to identify the property. Label A human-readable label assigned to the property (May be represented in different languages.) Defined By An identifier of a namespace, pointer to a schema, or bibliographic reference for a document within which the property is defined. Source Definition The definition of the property in the namespace in which the property was orginated. (May be represented in different languages.) Source Comments Comments on the property from the namespace in which the property orginated. (May be represented in different languages.) ASN Comments ASN comments on the property including "best practice" information. (May be represented in different languages.) Type of Property The grammatical category of the property ("Property", "Sub-property" (i.e., property refinement). Refines The described property semantically refines the referenced property. A refinement makes the meaning of the element narrower or more specific as defined in the DCMI Abstract Model (http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/). It will share the meaning of the unrefined element but with a more restricted scope. Property Domain The domain of the property being defined identifies the class(es) that may be acceptable instances of the subject of RDF statements for the property. Property Range The range of the property being defined identifies the class(es) that may be acceptable instances of the object of RDF statements for the property. Obligation Indicates whether the element is required to always or sometimes be present. In this application profile the obligation can be: mandatory, mandatory if applicable, strongly recommended , conditional with stated conditions, or optional. Mandatory ensures that some of the elements are always supported and mandatory if applicable means that this element must be supported if the information is available. An element with a mandatory obligation must have a value. The strongly recommended and the optional elements should be filled with a value if the information is appropriate to the given resource but if not, they may be omitted. Occurrence Indicates any limit to the repeatability of the element including zero, one to infinity.
PROPERTIES
ALIGN FROM
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/alignFrom |
| Label | Align From |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | A standards document or statement from which the statement or document being described is aligned. |
| ASN Comments | An alignment is an assertion of some degree of eqiuvalency between the subject and the object of the assertion. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | -- |
| Property Domain |
Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) [Document-to-document] Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) [Statement-to-statement] |
| Obligation | Mandatory if present |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
ALIGN TO
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/alignTo |
| Label | Align To |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | A standards document or statement to which the statement or document being described is aligned. |
| ASN Comments | An alignment is an assertion of some degree of eqiuvalency between the subject and the object of the assertion. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | -- |
| Property Domain |
Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) [Document-to-document] Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) [Statement-to-statement] |
| Obligation | Mandatory if present |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
AUTHOR
| Property URI | http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/AUT |
| Label | Author |
| Defined By | http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/ |
| Source Definition | A person or organization chiefly responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of a work, usually printed text. |
| ASN Comments | If identified, the person(s) or organization(s) chiefly responsible for the intellectual content of the standards document or derived statements. [Language designation required] |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/contributor |
| Property Domain |
Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Unspecified |
| Obligation | Mandatory if present |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
AUTHORITY STATUS
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/authorityStatus |
| Label | Authority Status |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The status of a standards statement denoting whether the statement owes its origin to the promulgating agency of the standards document of which the statement is a member (i.e., value "Original") or to some 3rd party (i.e., value "Derived"). |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNAuthorityStatus/ |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
COMMENT
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/comment |
| Label | Comment |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | Supplemental text provided by the promulgating body that clarifies the nature, scope or use of the statement being described. |
| Source Comments | Use «comment» when the text provides useful context for the statement. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Undefined |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
CONCEPT KEYWORD
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/conceptKeyword |
| Label | Concept Keyword |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | A word or phrase used by the promulgating agency to refine and differentiate individual statements contextually. |
| Source Comments | The «conceptKeyword» property is used in ASN-conforming data solely to denote the significant topicality of the achievement standard using free-text keywords and phrases derived and assigned by the indexer, e.g., "George Washington", "Ayers Rock", etc. «conceptKeyword» should be used judiciously and in moderation. «conceptKeyword» should be used only if an appropriate term does not exist in a controlled vocabulary. Note: To express topical values from a controlled vocabulary (e.g., terms drawn from the Australia Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT)), use the property «conceptTerm». Note: Use «subject» to denote the learning area/discipline of the achievement standard—e.g., "History", "Science", "Social Studies", "Mathematics" etc. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | unspecified |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
CONCEPT TERM
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/conceptTerm |
| Label | Concept Term |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | A term drawn from a controlled vocabulary used by the promulgating agency to refine and differentiate individual statements contextually. |
| Source Comments | The «conceptTerm» property is used in ASN-conforming data solely to denote the topicality of the achievement standard—e.g., "Phythagorean Theorem", "Trigonometric functions", "Forces and energy", "Scientific method", "Oral history" etc. The value of the «conceptTerm» property must be drawn from
a controlled vocabulary where concepts have all been assigned URI—e.g., terms drawn from the Australia Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT). Note: To express topical terms using free-text keywords, use the «conceptTerm» property. Note: Use «subject» to denote the learning area/discipline of the achievement standard—e.g., "History", "Science", "Social Studies", "Mathematics" etc. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Jurisidiction-specific VES encoded in SKOS (e.g., ScOT SKOS encoding) |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
CREATED
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/created |
| Label | Date Created |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | Date of creation of the resource. |
| Source Comments | — |
| ASN Comments | The «creation» date is used for non-canonical statements created by a third party. |
| Type of term | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/date |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF (ISO 8601) |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
CROSS SUBJECT REFERENCE
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/crossSubjectReference |
| Label | Cross Subject Reference |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | An explicit reference by the promulgating agency establishing a relationship between the statement being described and a statement in a separate subject standards document (interdisciplinary statement reference). |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/relation |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
DATE COPYRIGHTED
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/dateCopyrighted |
| Label | Date Copyrighted |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | Date of a statement of copyright. |
| ASN Comments | Recommended best practice for encoding the date value is defined in a profile of ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and follows the YYYY-MM-DD format. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/date |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF (ISO 8601) |
| Obligation | Mandatory if available |
| Occurrence | One |
DATE VALID
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/dateValid |
| Label | Date Valid |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | Date (often a range) of validity of a resource. |
| ASN Comments | Where the standard document is valid for a given period of time, that period should be recorded. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/date |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF (ISO 8601) |
| Obligation | Mandatory if available |
| Occurrence | One |
DERIVED FROM
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/derivedFrom |
| Label | Derived From |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The URI of a statement from which the statement being described has been derived. The «derivedFrom» property is used by 3rd parties only in derived statements and must appear in conjunction with a value of "Derived" in the statement's «authorityStatus» property. |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/relation |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | One |
DESCRIPTION
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/term/description |
| Label | Description |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | An account of the content of the standards document. |
| ASN Comments | A description of the standards document. ♦ The text of the statement being described. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Tange | Unspecified |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One through Infinity. May be repeated for different languages. |
EDUCATION LEVEL
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/educationLevel |
| Label | Education Level |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | A general statement describing the education or training context. Alternatively, a more specific statement of the location of the audience in terms of its progression through an education or training context. |
| Source Comments | — |
| ASN Comments | Repeat the «educationLevel» property for each grade in a grade band. |
| Type of Property | sub-property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/audience |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Value URI from a controlled vocabulary is mandatory For U.S. K-12, use the ASN VES: http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/ For non-U.S. education levels, use specific jurisdictional VES |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One through infinity |
EXPORT VERSION [Deprecated]
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/exportVersion |
| Label | Export Version |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The URI of the ASN export version of the standards file. |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | Value URI from a controlled vocabulary is mandatory. Assigned by ASN |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
FILE CREATED [Deprecated]
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/fileCreated |
| Label | File Created |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The specific date the ASN standards file was generated by the ASN repository. |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/date |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF (ISO 8601) |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
HAS CHILD
| Property URI | http://purl.org/gem/qualifiers/hasChild |
| Label | Has Child |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/gem/qualifiers/ |
| Source Definition | The resource being described is higher in some arbitrary hierarchy than the resource being pointed to by this Relation element. |
| Source Comments | — |
| ASN Comments | Identifies top-level child statements of the standards document being described. ♦ Identifies the child of a statement (establishes the downward path in the chain of statements in a taxon path). |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/relation |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Obligation | Mandtory |
| ccurrence | One through infinity |
INDEXING STATUS
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/indexingStatus |
| Label | Authority Status |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The indexing status of statement denoting whether correlators should or should not assign the statement during correlation--Values="Yes"/"No". |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNIndexingStatus/ |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
IS CHILD OF
| Property URI | http://purl.org/gem/qualifiers/isChildOf |
| Label | Is Child Of |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/gem/qualifiers/ |
| Source Definition | The statement being described is lower in some arbitrary hierarchy than the statement identified in the «isChildOf» property. The statement identified is a parent of the statement being described. |
| ASN Comments | — |
| Type of property | sub-property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/relation |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One to infinity |
IS PART OF
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf |
| Label | Is Part Of |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | The described resource includes the referenced resource either physically or logically. |
| Source Comments | — |
| ASN Comments | The value of the «isPartOf» property is the URI of the Standards Document of which the statement being described is a member. |
| Type of property | sub-property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/relation |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One to infinity |
JURISDICTION
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/jurisdiction |
| Label | Jurisdiction |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | A legal, quasi-legal, organizational or institutional domain of the entity mandating the use of the achievement standard--e.g., California, Singapore, NCTM. |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | Value URI from a controlled vocabulary is mandatory http://purl.org/ASN/schema/ASNJurisdiction |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
LANGUAGE
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/language |
| Label | Language |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | A language of the achievement standards document. |
| ASN Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | -- |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | Syntax Encoding Scheme: http://purl.org/dc/terms/ISO639-3, see http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/ |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One through infinity |
LICENSE
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/license |
| Label | License |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. |
| ASN Comments | — |
| Type of Property | element-refinement |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/rights |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Value URI for a license is mandatory (e.g., Creative Commons License) |
| Obligation | Mandatory if available |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
LOCAL SUBJECT [Deprecated]
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/localSubject |
| Label | Local Subject |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The text string denoting the subject of the document as designated by the promulgating agency. |
| Source Comment | The local subject may (or many not) be the same as the ASN subject. If the local subject and the ASN subject are the same, enter the local subject text string in the «localSubject» property as well as the ASN subject URI in the «subject» property. Language designation required. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Unspecified |
| Obligation | Mandatory if present |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
NOTE
| Property URI | http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#note |
| Label | Change Note |
| Defined By | http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# |
| Source Definition | A documentation note that describes signification changes, supplies examples, or provides aids to administration. |
| ASN Comments | Language designation required. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | Unspecified |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
PUBLICATION STATUS
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/publicationStatus |
| Label | Publication Status |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The publication status of the of the standards document--e.g., "Draft", "Published", "Deprecated". |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNPublicationStatus/ |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
PUBLISHER
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/publisher |
| Label | Publisher |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ |
| Source Definition | An entity responsible for making the resource available. |
| Source Comments | — |
| ASN Comments | In the ASN, the promulgating agency of the standards document. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | Unspecified [however, ValueURI required] |
| Obligation | Mandatory if available |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
REPOSITORY DATE
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/repositoryDate |
| Label | Repository Date |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The date the standards document was added to the ASN repository. |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF (ISO 8601) |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
RIGHTS
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/rights |
| Label | Rights |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/tems/ |
| Source Definition | Information about rights held in and over the resource. |
| ASN Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/elements/1.1/rights |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Unspecified |
| Obligation | Mandatory if available. |
| Occurrence | Zero or infinity |
RIGHTS HOLDER
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder |
| Label | Rights Holder |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | A person or organization owning or managing rights over the standards document. |
| ASN Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Unspecified |
| Obligation | Mandatory if available. |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
SKILL EMBODIED
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/skillEmbodied |
| Label | Original Document |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills directly or indirectly embodied in the statement. |
| ASN Comments | For example, a term from Bloom's Taxonomy. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | -- |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Value URI required. |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity. |
SOURCE
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/source |
| Label | Original Document |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | The achievent standard document from which the ASN representation is derived. ♦ The URI and/or citation of the original acievement standards document. |
| ASN Comments | Source is intended to hold the URL of the source standards document and/or a textual citation for that document. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/relation |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | Unspecified |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One |
SPATIAL
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/spatial |
| Label | Spatial |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | Spatial characteristic of the statement (e.g. geospatial coordinates). |
| ASN Comments | -- |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/coverage |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | http://purl.org/dc/terms/Box (DCMI Box) http://purl.org/dc/terms/ISO3166 ISO 3166 http://purl.org/dc/terms/Point DCMI Point http://purl.org/dc/terms/TGN TGN http://sws.geonames.org/ontology Geonames |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | One to infinity |
STATEMENT LABEL
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/statementLabel |
| Label | Statement Label |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | The textual label identifying the class of the statement as designated by the promulgating body—e.g., "Standard," "Benchmark," "Strand," or "Topic." |
| Source Comments | The «statementLabel» is a class and should not be confused with instances of the class. For example, where two statements in a standards document have been identified respectively by the promulgating agency as "Strand: Rennaisance" and "Strand: Social history", the «statementLabel» for both these statements is "Strand". |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Undefined |
| Obligation | Mandatory when available |
| Occurrence | Zero or one |
STATEMENT NOTATION
| Property URI | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/statementNotation |
| Label | Statement Label |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/ |
| Source Definition | An alphanumeric notation or ID code as defined by the promulgating body to identify the statement. |
| Source Comments | — |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | Undefined |
| Obligation | Mandatory when available |
| Occurrence | One |
SUBJECT
| Name of Property | subject |
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject |
| Label | Subject |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ |
| Source Definition | The topic of the content of the resource. |
| Source Comments | |
| ASN Comments | The «subject» property is used in ASN-conforming data solely to denote the learning area/discipline that the achievement standard covers—e.g., "History", "Science", "Social Studies", "Mathematics" etc. To express the topicality of an achievement standard—e.g., "Phythagorean Theorem", "George Washington", "Trigonometric functions", etc., use «conceptTerm» for values from controlled vocabularies or «conceptKeyword» for free-text. The value of the «subject» property must be drawn from a controlled vocabulary where concepts have all been assigned URI. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/subject |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property range | Value URI from a controlled vocabulary is mandatory http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNTopics/ |
| Obligation | Mandatory |
| Occurrence | One through infinity |
TEMPORAL
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/terms/temporal |
| Label | Temporal |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/terms/ |
| Source Definition | Temporal characteristic of a statement (e.g., an historic period). |
| ASN Comments | Temporal characteristics include those aspects of time that relate to the intellectual content of a statement and not its lifecycle. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | http://purl.org/dc/terms/coverage |
| Property Domain | Statement (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/Statement) |
| Property Range | http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-period DCMI Period http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF W3CDTF |
| Obligation | Optional |
| Occurrence | Zero through infinity |
TITLE
| Property URI | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title |
| Label | Title |
| Defined By | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ |
| Source Definition | A name given to the resource. |
| ASN Comments | The value of the «title» property may be repeated for multiple languages. |
| Type of Property | property |
| Refines | — |
| Property Domain | Document (http://purl.org/ASN/schema/core/StandardDocument) |
| Property Range | Unspecified |
| Obligation | Mandatory [Document template] |
| Occurrence | One through infinity |
6. Language Designations & Dates
All textual values in the ASN with the exception of properties with
values controlled by syntax encoding schemes (SES) (e.g.,
«copyrightDate») or vocabulary encoding schemes (VES) (e.g., «subject»)
must have language desgnations using xml:lang. This includes all
free-text values.
Dates should be encoded according to W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601 or using full ISO 8601.
7. Example Partial Encoding
Below are segments of ASN RDF/XML code based on the ASN Application Profile for Arkansas—Art History I: Fine Arts Curriculum Framework, Revised 2008. The full Arkansas RDF/XML document is available here. Segments representing the two entities in the ASN abstract model are provided: the standards document entity and the standards statement entity.
Standards Document:
An ASN encoding for the Arkansas Art History I standard, contains a single standards document (asn:StandardDocument) RDF description. The standards document is identified by dereferencable URI (http://purl.org/ASN/resources/D1000393). The document description contains URI relating this description to the descriptions of this particular standard's three top-level standards statements (gemq:hasChild).
<asn:StandardDocument rdf:about="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/D1000393">
<dcterms:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us" />
<dcterms:created rdf:datatype="http://purl.org/dc/terms/W3CDTF">2008</dcterms:created>
<dc:title xml:lang="en-US">Art I Fine Arts Curriculum Framework Revised 2008</dc:title>
<dc:description xml:lang="en-US">Art I is a two-semester course designed to teach students to apply the elements of art and principles of design to the creative process. Art I students are expected to use a variety of media, techniques, processes, and tools to compose original works of art that demonstrate understanding of the elements of art and principles of design, awareness of aesthetic concerns, and the ability to communicate ideas through artwork. Students will critique and reflect on their artwork and the art of others. Students will exhibit artwork and will assemble portfolios that demonstrate successful completion of Art I student learning expectations. Art I is required by the Standards for Accreditation and does not require Arkansas Department of Education approval.</dc:description>
<asn:publicationStatus rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNPublicationStatus/Published"/>
<asn:jurisdiction rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNJurisdiction/AR"/>
<dcterms:subject rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNTopic/theArts"/>
<dc:language rdf:parseType="http://purl.org/dc/terms/ISO639-3">eng</dc:language>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/9"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/10"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/11"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/12"/>
<gemq:hasChild>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67A"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67E"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A680"/>
</rdf:Seq>
</gemq:hasChild>
</asn:StandardDocument>
Standards Statement:
Below are segments to two (2) from many statements (achievemet assertions) in the Arkansas standards document. We have included two related statement descriptions from a single taxon path. Again, each statement description is identified by URI (http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67A and http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67B). Each statement is related to the standards document in which it is embodied by referencing its URI (dcterms:isPartOf) and the second statement being below the first in the taxon path is related to the first statement by URI reference (gemq:isChildOf). The second statement then has the URI references for the child statements in the taxon paths stemming down from it.
Statement #1:
<asn:Statement rdf:about="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67A">
<dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/D1000393"/>
<dcterms:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us</dcterms:license" />
<dc:description xml:lang="en-US">Strand: Foundations</dc:description>
<asn:statementLabel xml:lang="en-US">Strand</asn:statementLabel>
<dcterms:subject rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNTopic/theArts"/>
<asn:authorityStatus rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNAuthorityStatus/Original"/>
<asn:indexingStatus rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNIndexingStatus/No"/>
<dc:language rdf:parseType="http://purl.org/dc/terms/ISO639-3">eng</dc:language>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/9"/>
<dcterms:eductionLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/10"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/11"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/12"/>
<gemq:hasChild>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67B"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67C"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67D"/>
</rdf:Seq>
</gemq:hasChild>
</asn:Statement>
Statement #2:
<asn:Statement rdf:about="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67B">
<dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/D1000393"/>
<dcterms:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us</dcterms:license" />
<dc:description xml:lang="en-US">Content Standard 1: Students shall apply elements of art in artistic compositions.</dc:description>
<asn:statementLabel xml:lang="en-US">Content Standard</asn:statementLabel>
<dcterms:subject rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNTopic/theArts"/>
<asn:authorityStatus rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNAuthorityStatus/Original"/>
<asn:indexingStatus rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNIndexingStatus/Yes"/>
<dc:language rdf:parseType="http://purl.org/dc/terms/ISO639-3">eng</dc:language>
<gemq:isChildOf rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A67A"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/9"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/10"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/11"/>
<dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/12"/>
<gemq:hasChild>
<rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A6A0"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A6A1"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A6A2"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A6A3"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A6A4"/>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S113A6A5"/>
</rdf:Seq>
</gemq:hasChild>
</asn:Statement>
8. ASN Globally Unique Identifiers
ASN globally unique identifiers (GUIDS) are in the form of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). URI for standards documents and standard statements are opaque. "An opaque identifier is simply one without any trace of embedded meaning .... They are ... as rare within our IT infrastructure as is purity elsewhere in human affairs. But they are also as impervious to bit rot and semantic deterioration as any identifier can be, and hence embody neutral virtue." [http://weibel-lines.typepad.com/weibelines/2006/02/identifier_ideo.html] As a result, ASN URI identifying standards documents and standard statements carry no meaning in terms of the content they identify. ASN URI are intended solely to support machine operations and are meaningless to end users. Where an achievement standard contains express identifiers for specific components of the standard, the ASN data model captures those identifiers and makes them available to consuming applications (see statementNotation in Section 4 above).
Implementation Advisory: To support interoperability, applications should identify ASN standards documents and standard statements at the system level using their full ASN URI. Identifiers derived through truncation eliminating the namespace portion of the URI are not guaranteed to be globally unique.
