FRAPO, the Funding, Research Administration and Projects Ontology

A mechanism for administering money, typically owned by an agent and dedicated to a particular purpose, for example the equipment account of a university department, to be used only for the purchase or maintenance of items of equipment.

A statement of income and expenditure for an account, typically presented as dated income receipts and outgoings against categories in a budget for that account.

The activity of applying for admission to some group or institution, for example a learned society or a university.

The anual financial turnover of an organization (in a specified currency).

The activity of making an application, for example for a job, or for funding.

A fee levied by a publisher on an author or an institution to cover the cost of publishing an Open Access journal article. Also knows as Article Processing Fee, Article Publication Charge, Author Processing Charge or Author Publishing Charge.

The amount available to spend in a budget category, equalling the income minus the expenditure to date plus future expenditure commitments.

A structured statement of how funds are to be used for expenditure in defined budget categories. A budget is created, for example, when applying for funding for a project, and is subsequently used to manage the expenditure from the awarded grant for that project.

A category of expenditure within a budget, determining what the allocated money can be spent on, for example salaries, equipment, travel.

Information about an aspect of a budget.

The amount of money originally available to spend in a particular budget category.

An amount of money given to a person by an organization, for example by a university to a university student in need to enable that student to continue his/her studies.

An academic organization that is either a small degree-giving university, or (in the OxBridge sense) an independent corporation of scholars within a larger university, providing undergraduate tuition and a social environment for its students and fellows.

Money set aside to honour expenditures already made but for which no invoices have yet been received, or expenditures planned for the future, for example for salaries.

A commercial company or business run for profit.

A computer system or software program whose action has an effect on external events, for example a laboratory robot that undertakes your experiments, or the financial control system that controls an institution's payrole, or that, following programmed business rules, prevents the principal investigator from placing an order for research equipment because there is insufficient money left in the project budget.

A service provided by a computer system.

A fee paid to attend a conference.

A formal agreement between members of a consortium, for example between research groups at different universities engaged in a multi-partner research project.

A contract between an employer and a consultant, detailing the terms of the consultancy.

A legally binding agreement between parties.

A facility in which digital data are deposited for long-term preservation and (optional) publication.

A class defining a 'deliverable' of a project, i.e. something that the project set out to deliver, or succeeds in delivering.

A department or sub-section within a larger organization, for example a university academic department.

A grouping of similar departments within a larger organization. In the university context, also known as a school or a faculty, for example the Humanities Division, the Mathematics Faculty, or the School of Medicine.

A facility in which digital documents are deposited for long-term preservation and (optional) publication.

The activity of applying for a job.

A contract of employment between a person and an organization.

In FRAPO, an endeavour is an activity such as a research investigation that is enabled by a project. An endeavour relate to the academic and practical aspects of undertaking that endeavour - thus for a research investigation the research itself, including the hypotheses being investigated, the experiments being undertaken, the data being gathered and analysed, the interpretations being drawn from the data, and the results obtained. In contrast, the project relates to the administrative aspects of undertaking an endeavour, including the funding obtained, the people employed, and the management of the project in terms of deadlines and deliverables.

A transfer, generally as a gift, of money or property to an institution to provide a permanent fund, the income from which is to be used for a particular purpose. (Abbreviated from http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/endowment).

An item of equipment or apparatus, or a laboratory instrument, for example a refrigerated centrifuge.

Money going out of an account, because of expenditure on various entities. May be associated with a particular budget category.

Total money expended to date from an an account, or from a particular budget category.

A place or installation built or designed to serve a specific function or provide a specific service, for example an animal breeding centre, a DNA sequencing facility or a confocal imaging laboratory.

A grouping of similar departments within a university context, also known as a school or a division, for example the Humanities Division, the Mathematics Faculty, or the School of Medicine.

An amount of money paid for something that is not purchased.

The stipend paid to a fellow in a college or university.

A software system controlling the financial activities of an organization, for example determining full economic cost budgets for grant applications, and managing the funding of funded projects.

An entity primarily to do with money.

An amount of money available to finance some project or activity.

An organization that provides funding for projects or resources, often in the form of grants awarded on the basis of competitive application.

The activity of applying for funding.

A programme of related funded activities or projects, typically established by a funding agency. Often associated with publication of a call for applications (fabio:CallForApplications).

A gift, donation, benefaction or legacy, typically of money.

An organization that is part of, or funded by, central or local goverment.

A financial award by a funding agency for a particular project or purpose, usually awarded on the basis of a competitive application.

An institution that acts as a host, for example of a project, a resource or a person, for example by providing accommodation, services, operational support and/or funding.

Money coming into an account. May be associated with a particular budget category.

An entity that facilitates work.

An investigation is an endeavour that involves research, enabled by a project.

The investigation relate to the scholarly and practical aspects of conducting the research itself, including the hypotheses being investigated, the experiments being undertaken, the data being gathered and analysed, the interpretations being drawn from the data, and the results obtained.

In contrast, the project that enables it encompasses the administrative aspects of undertaking the endeavour, including the funding obtained, the people employed, and the management of the project in terms of deadlines and deliverables.

An investment of money, generally in stocks and shares, or in property, for the purpose of safeguarding the capital and yielding an income.

An invoice for payment of goods or services.

A facility in which research can be conducted.

A gift of money or property specified in the will of a person, that is made after that person's death.

A facility in which printed documents (for example books and journals) are deposited for long-term preservation and access.

An agent who manufactures goods or equipment.

A material or physical output created or produced as a result of a project or an endeavour such as a research investigation. Examples include a building constructed as a result of a building project, and research outputs such as a cell line, a mouse mutant or a new form of microscope.

An organization that does not primarily exist to make profit, for example a charity or charitable foundation, a learned society, or a standards body such as the World Wide Web Consortium.

Something that is created or produced as a result of a project or an endeavour. Examples include a building resulting from a building project, educated students graduating from an educational programme, and a journal article published as a result of a research project. Research outputs can also include reports, datasets, experimental protocols, workflows and mathematical models, and material outputs such as a cell line, a mouse mutant or a new form of microscope.

The agent who owns an entity.

A financial payment made, for example in exchange for something purchased such as property, goods or services, or to refund expenses incurred.

A postal address.

In FRAPO, a project is an administrative entity that enables an endeavour such as a research investigation. A project relates to the administrative aspects of undertaking an endeavour, including the funding obtained, the people employed, and the management of the project in terms of deadlines and deliverables. In contrast, an endeavour such as a research investigation relate to the academic and practical aspects of undertaking that endeavour - thus for a research investigation: the research itself, including the hypotheses being investigated, the experiments being undertaken, the data being gathered and analysed, the interpretations being drawn from the data, and the results obtained.

A budget for a research project.

The payment for obtaining something, for example property, goods or services.

An official order from a purchasing institution to a supplier for the purchase of goods or services, often issued in response to the receipt of a quotation from the supplier.

An agent who purchases something from a supplier.

A formal statement of promise (usually provided in response to a request for quotation) by potential supplier to supply goods or services at specified prices and within a specified period. Acceptance of the quotation by the buyer constitutes an agreement binding on both parties. (Shortened from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/quotation.html).

An institution or organization officially appointed by a Registration Authority that acts to register things. For example, CrossRef is a registration agency for DOIs relating to documents, while DataCite is a registration agency for DOIs relating to datasets, acting for the Registration Authority for DOIs, namely the International DOI Foundation (IDF).

An agent with responsibility for registering and maintaining international standards, internet domain names, patents, controlled vocabularies and other similar entities required for reliable international cooperatative activities. For example, the International DOI Foundation (IDF) is the Registration Authority for DOIs.

A facility in which entities can be deposited for long-term preservation.

A group of people, usually within a university department or a research institute, and typically under a single group leader, dedicated to working together to undertake research on one or more topics. May also be called a research unit.

A database containing administrative information about the research undertaken in an institution, and the publications and other outputs from such research.

An organization primarily dedicated to undertaking research, that might be part of a university or of a commercial company, or might be independently funded by a research funding agency.

A financial grant to a scholar to enable him/her to undertake advanced academic study.

The activity of applying for an educational scholarship.

A service of help to others, often requiring funding, employees, equipment and/or facilities for its provision, for example a library service, a transportation service, a DNA sequencing service.

A contract for the provision of a service such as a cleaning service, or for the regular servicing, maintenance and repair of some item of equipment or infrastructure.

A fee paid periodically, typically annually, to obtain access when required to a service such as an equipment maintenance contract."

A small to medium enterprise, having up to 250 employees.

A company that has been established by a university or research institute to mature and market the results of research conducted at that research institution.

The status of something such as an application, an investigation or a project.

A sum of money allotted on a regular basis, usually for some specific purpose.

A financial grant to a student to enable him/her to undertake advanced academic study.

Payment, commonly made annually, to obtain access to something on a periodic or continuing basis, such as a journal.

An agent who supplies something, such as goods or services.

Sealed bid or offer document submitted in response to a request for tenders, containing detailed information on costs, requirements and terms associated with a potential contract. (Adapted from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/tender.html).

A university at which higher education and research is conducted.

An agent who supplies goods or services in exchange for payment, in response to receipt of payment or of an official purchase order from a purchaser that is responded to by submission of an invoice for what is supplied.

An object property linking an agent to something for which that agent applies, for example a job, membership of an organization, or a grant from a funding agency.

An object property linking an agent to something the agent awards, for example linking a funding agency to a grant, a university to a degree, or an organization to a prize.

An object property linking agents, for example different organizations, or people typically from different groups or organizations, that work together on a common task, project or endeavour, or towards a common goal.

An object property linking a benefactor to a gift.

An object property relating an employing agent to an employed agent, for example a person or an organization, who is typically employed to undertaking specified work in exchange for payment.

An object property relating an entity to another entity that it enables, e.g. linking a project to an endeavour that the project enables.

An object property linking an agent to an entity which that agent evaluates, for example a funding agency that is evaluating a grant application to determine whether the proposed project is worthy of funding, or a publisher evaluating a manuscript to determine whether it is suitable for publication.

An object property that links a grant to something that it funds (i.e. that it finances or pays for), or that links an agent providing funding to something that it funds. This flexibility is given because of alternative usages of the English word 'funds'. [See also frapo:awards and frapo:supports.]

An object property linking a person to an on-line version of that person's curriculum vitae.

An object property linking something to a funding agency that provides funding for it.

An object property linking an entity such as a project, an endeavour or an output to an agent who owns the IPR arising from or related to that entity.

An object property linking an activity such as a project or endeavour to something that is created or produced as a result of that activity. Examples include a building created as a result of a building project, and a journal article published to describe the results of a research investigation.

An object property linking something applied for to the agent making the application.

An object property linking something awarded to the agent making the award, for example linking a grant to a funding agency, a degree to a university, or a prize to the awarding organization.

An object property linking a gift to the benefactor who provided it.

An object property relating an employed agent, typically a person or an organization, to an employing agent.

An object property relating an entity to another entity that enables it, e.g. linking an investigation to a project that enables it.

An object property linking an entity to an agent that evaluates it.

An object property linking something to the funding that funds it (i.e. that finances or pays for it), or to the funding agency providing that funding. This flexibility is given because of alternative usages of the English word 'funds'. [See also frapo:isAwardedBy and frapo:hasFundingAgency and frapo:isSupportedBy.]

An object property linking a funding agency to an entity for which it provides funding.

An object property relating a manufactured entity to its manufacturer.

An object property linking something that is created or produced to the activity that created or produced it.

An object property linking an entity to the agent that owns it.

An object property linking an entity that is submitted (to some third party) to the agent who submits it.

An object property relating an entity that is supplied, or an agent to whom an entity is supplied, to the supplier.

An object property linking something to an agent that provides funding or other support for it.

An object property relating a manufacturer to a manufactured entity.

An object property linking an agent to an entity owned by that agent.

An object property linking an agent who owns IPR arising from or relating to an entity to that entity.

An object property linking funding to a budget, specifying what fraction of the total budget is provided by that source of funding.

An agent that provides a service.

An object property relating a purchaser to a purchased entity.

An object property relating a purchaser to a supplier from whom the purchase is made.

An object property relating a supplier to a purchaser to whom an entity is sold.

An object property relating an agent or a budget to the expenditure specified by that agent or budget.

An object property linking an agent to an entity that is submitted to some third party, for example a grant application submitted to a funding agency, a manuscript submitted to a publisher, a quotation submitted by a vendor, or a dataset submitted by a researcher to a data repository.

An object property relating a supplier to a supplied entity, or to an agent to whom the entity is supplied.

An object property linking an agent to something that the agent supports by financial or other means.

An object property linking an activity such as an expedition, a research project or an investigation, to an item of equipment employed in that activity.

An object property linking an activity such as an expedition, a research project or an investigation, to a facility employed in that activity.

An object property linking an activity such as an expedition, a research project or an investigation, to a service employed in that activity.

An object property relating a purchased entity to its purchaser.

A data property permitting specification of the initial(s) of a person's family name.

A data property defining whether participation in an event is free, or requires payment of a fee.

A data property permitting specification of the initial(s) of a person's given name(s).

A data property linking a financial account to an identifying number for that account.

A data property linking an entity to an acronym used to identify it, based on its full name or title. For example, this ontology has the full name 'Funding, Research Administration and Projects Ontology' and the acronym 'FRAPO'.

An alternative name that a person uses for professional purposes, for example the pen name of an author, or a married woman's maiden name used as her professional name.

The date by which an application, for example a job application, a fellowship application or a grant application, has to be submitted if it is to be considered for acceptance or funding.

A data property that permits the outcome of an application to be described, for example that a job has been offered or that a grant has been awarded.

The date on which notification is given or received that something, for example a scholarship or a grant, has been awarded. [See also frapo:hasDecisionDate.]

A data property linking something, for example a chemical or drug, to its manufacturing batch number.

A data property permitting specification of the birth date of a person.

A data property specifying the identifying number of a call for applications issued by a funding agency.

A data property linking something to its catalog number.

A data property specifying a city or town, for example as the location of an event.

A data property defining a code.

A data property linking something such as a building or a contract to its date of completion.

A data property linking a person to information about that person.

A data property enabling the cost of something that can be paid for to be defined.

A data property specifying a country, for example as the location of an event.

A data property specifying the two-letter or three-letter upper-case country code used to identify a country (e.g. FR/FRA for France, DE/DEU for Germany) (see http://countrycode.org/).

A data property linking something to its date of creation.

A data property defining the currency used to specify a financial entity. Use in conjection with frapo:hasMonetaryValue.

A data property specifying the three-letter currency code used to identify a currency, as defined by ISO 4217 (e.g. EUR or GBP) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).

Not to be confused with the symbol used with numbers to denote an amount of money in a particular currency (e.g.€500; £3.40)

A data property linking an agent to an identifying number for that agent, typically used by the accounting system of the supplier when issuing quotations, fulfilling orders and submitting invoices.

A data property linking something to its date of manufacture.

The date on which a particular action is or will be decided upon, or when an application, such as a grant application, is or will be approved or rejected. [See also frapo:hasAwardDate.]

The letters that should be displayed after a person's name to indicate an academic degree, e.g. BA, BVSc, PhD, DSc.

A data property that permits one to define a deliverable of a project.

The date on which something is delivered, or is due to be delivered.

The date on which something, for example an item of equipment, is dispatched by the supplier.

A data property linking an entity to an internet domain name that has been registered for that entity, for example http://www.miidi.org for MIIDI, the Minimal Information standard for reporting an Infectious Disease Investigation.

A data property linking something such as a project to its end date.

A data property specifying the currency exchange rate between two specified currencies.

A data property identifying the area(s) of expertise and skills posessed by an individual or an organization.

A data property linking something, for example a drug, to its expiry date, beyond which the manufacture recommends that it should not be used.

The letters that may be displayed after a person's name to indicate familial status, e.g. Sn., Jn., III, 3rd.

A data property identifying a Fax number for an agent.

A data property linking a funding agency to an identifier for that funding agency.

A data property specifying the grant number of a grant provided by a funding agency.

A data property specifying the number of people employed by an organization.

A data property linking an agent to information about that agent.

A data property linking an invoice to its date.

A data property permitting specification of the job title held by a person, such as might appear next to the name in a directory or on a conference name badge. For example, the person's specific Job Title might be 'Linacre Professor of Zoology' or 'Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy'.

This job title properly refers to the role held by that person (e.g. 'Head of Department'), which can be separately defined using SCoRO, the Scholarly Contributions and Roles Ontology (http://purl.org/spar/scoro/). [see scoro:withJobTitle].

A data property permitting specification of a keyword relating to an entity.

A data property specifying the two-letter or three-letter lower-case code used to identify a language (e.g. fr/fra for French, de/deu for Germany) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes).

A data property link an entity to a relevant location, which might be geographical (e.g. New York City) or local (e.g. Freezer B, second shelf).

A data property that permits one to define a significant event (a 'milestone') in the progress of a project.

A data property linking something, for example a piece of equipment, to its model number.

The letters that should be displayed after a person's name.

A data property relating an individual to his/her Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), an alphanumeric identifier for individual scholars described at http://about.orcid.org/.

It describes information about the organization.

A unique and unambiguous identifier for an individual person within a given context.

A data property identifying a telephone number for an agent.

A data property defining the postal code of an address.

A data property identifying a postal address for an agent.

A data property permitting specification of a single line of a postal address.

A data property linking a project to an identifier for that project.

A data property that permits the provenance of an entity to be described.

A data property linking something to its purchase date.

A data property identifying an official purchase order issued by a purchasing agent to a supplier of goods or services, and used by the supplier to identify the order when delivering goods or submitting an invoice.

A data property permitting specification of the qualification held by a person.

A data property linking a quotation to its date.

A data property linking something to a reference number for that item.

The date by which registration must be made, for example renewal of an internet domain name.

A data property linking something, for example a piece of equipment, to its serial number.

A data property linking something such as a project to its start date.

A data property linking a supplier to an identifying number for that supplier, typically used by the accounting system of the purchasing institution when placing and tracking orders.

A data property enabling one to define the temporal duration of some entity such as an event or a project.

A data property that permits the time zone relating to an entity to be specified.

A data property enabling one to specify the monetary value of a financial entity such as a grant, a gift or a budget category. Use in conjuction with frapo:hasCurrency.

A unique and unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.

Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system.

A data property permitting specification of the initial(s) of a person's name.

The letters that should be displayed after a person's name to indicate qualification, membership or fellowship in a professional society, honours or elite status, e.g. MRCVS, FRCS, FRS, OBE, Kt.

A member of the academic staff of an academic institution such as a university.

The status of something such as an application as having been accepted.

A person who gives a gift.

A budget category to cover the costs of constructing, renovating or modifying a physical building.

A person willing to invest in start-up companies.

A budget category to cover the costs of consultancy fees.

A budget category to cover the costs of purchasing consumables.

A budget category to categorize the financial worth of contributions in kind (e.g. staff effort, access to facilities, sharing of know-how) given to a project by an agent, for example by the host institution or by a commerical partner in an academic project.

A budget category to cover those costs normally borne by an institution, that are assigned to the budget of an externally funded project to cover the value of contributions to that project, for example to pay for the salary of a permanent member of staff seconded to work on the project, to compensate the employing organization for the loss of that person's efforts on other activities that he or she would otherwise be undertaking were it not for that secondment.

A budget category to cover all costs directly incurred because of a legitimate expenditure on a project, for example the purchase of reagents or the employment of a post-doctoral researcher.

A person who invests in novel enterprises.

A budget category to cover the 'overhead' costs of maintaining the premises in which work is undertaken.

A budget category to cover the costs of maintaining facilities used by a project, for example an electron microscopy facility.

A budget category to cover all the direct and indirect costs of a project.

The status of something such as an investigation or a project as being funded.

A budget category to cover the indirect costs of running a project, for example heating and lighting, and the employment of non-project staff including administrators, accountants and cleaners.

A budget category to cover all the costs associated with a project that do not involve the employment of staff by the institution, thus, for example, including consumables purchase, travel costs and consultancy fees, but excluding the salary, estates and indirect costs associated with the allocation of the PI's time to the project and the direct employment of a project manager.

A budget category to cover costs not covered in other budget categories.

A budget category to cover all the non-directly incurred costs of a project, including estates costs and indirect costs, that enable an institution to host an externally-funded project.

A budget category to cover the cost of publishing outpots from a project, for example author fees for journal articles in an open access journal.

The status of something such as an application as having been rejected.

A budget category to cover the costs of services used by a project, for example a DNA sequencing service, or an equipment maintenance service.

A budget category to cover the costs of software licenses required by a project.

A budget category to cover the costs of travel and subsistence incurred on behalf of the project.

The status of something such as an investigation or a project as being unfunded.

The date by which an application, for example a job application, a fellowship application or a grant application, has to be submitted if it is to be considered for acceptance or funding.

A data property linking an invoice to its date.

A data property linking a project to an identifier for that project.