FAIR Guidance Vocabulary Specification (FGV)

The FAIR Guidance Vocabulary (FGV) provides a machine-readable ontology that implements the FAIR Guidance Model described in the OSTrails Deliverable D1.3. It formalizes the structure of FAIR-enabling guidance by extending and aligning with standards such as DCAT, Schema.org, and the Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO).

FGV describes Guidance Entities—including their typology (e.g., FAQ, Best Practice), their links to external resources (such as webpages, annotations, or API responses), and their conceptual focus areas (e.g., How, Why, What). This enables consistent, interoperable, and machine-actionable representation of guidance across systems and services in a FAIR manner.

The code release provides the ontology, including vocabularies, definitions, and specifications in machine-readable form.