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Concept help - Property Group

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A property group is a collection that gather sets of related Properties to aid discovery and navigation.

A property group is a collection of Properties that gather sets of related characteristics. For example, the properties of Hair colour and Height for an unknown model - [[ObjectClass]] of Person could be grouped together under a Identifying features property group.

Property Groups assist with discovery and interpretation of ontologies and data by providing a simple hierarchy for the navigation.

Tips for creating Property Groups

A Property Group should define clearly what types of properties it describes and groups.

For example, a definition for Identifying characteristics

property group could be "The non-changable attributes and features about a person that can be used for determining a person from a group of others". This definition helps third parties know that this could include a persons height or eye colour, but not age as their age changes over time.

Properties groups can be used to create "folksonomies" by setting the "allow attachments" attribute on the property group to allow all users, or only properties owned by the same stewardship organisation as each property to attach to the group.

When set up in this way users editing a property will be able to set a property group, and the property group will be saved at the end of the group's list of properties to allow for categorisation by Property Group editors.

Fields available on this metadata type

Field ISO definition and Registry Help (where available)
Name The primary name used for human identification purposes.
Definition Representation of a concept by a descriptive statement which serves to differentiate it from related concepts. (3.2.39)
Target Stewardship Organisation Stewardship Organisation the user selected when they create the item, which is where they wanted to item to end up in.
Is Federated
Is Not Federable
Version Unique version identifier of this metadata item.
References Significant documents that contributed to the development of the metadata item which were not the direct source for the metadata content.

Citations in Metadata.NSW should be formatted in the author-date style, as detailed in the Australian Government Style Manual. 

Please note that Metadata.NSW includes the full URL in angle brackets in citations for accessibility purposes.

Structures for common resource types include:
 
Entire website
  • Structure: 
    Author A (Year) Name of website, Short URL [optional], accessed Day Month Year. <url>
  • Example:
    APSC (Australian Public Service Commission) (2021) Australian Government Style Manual, stylemanual.gov.au, accessed 3 October 2021. <https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/>
Webpage written by an organisation
Webpage with authors listed
Online document
  • Structure: 
    Author A (Year) Title of document, Organisation Name or Name of Website, accessed Day Month Year. <url>
  • Example:
    Western Australian Government (n.d.) Island guide, Rottnest Island, accessed 31 December 2019.<https://www.rottnestisland.com/visit/guides-tips>

 

For more information and additional formats, see the Australian Government Style Manual, ‘Author-date’.
Origin The source (e.g. document, project, discipline or model) for the item (8.1.2.2.3.5)
Comments Descriptive comments about the metadata item (8.1.2.2.3.4)
Deleted The date after which the item has been soft deleted and is no longer visible in the registry
Linkage Role Restrictions Editors of this property group can set the permissions to restrict which other users to link the properties to this group. These restrictions are not applicable to editors of this Property Group and the attached properties can be overridden using the Included Property list below. Properties attached by other users will be added to the end of the list and can be reordered at any time by editors of this Property Group.
Item Link Restrictions Editors of this property group can set the permissions to restrict which other users to link the properties to this group. These restrictions are not applicable to editors of this Property Group and the attached properties can be overridden using the Included Property list below. Properties attached by other users will be added to the end of the list and can be reordered at any time by editors of this Property Group.