TERN uses linked data to manage data artefacts derived from its terrestrial ecosystem field observatory. Linked data is a method of publishing and interlinking structured data that is machine and human-readable. It is built on the principle of the semantic web, which seeks to add meaning to data. In linked data, each data point is assigned a unique URI, which serves as its identifier on the web; URIs are dereferenceable using HTTP so that they are machine-accessible; data are represented in RDF, a standard model for describing resources and their relationships in a machine-readable way; Data are interconnected through links using URI, allowing for the discovery and traversal of related information across different datasets.
The website provides details about the TERN ontology and controlled vocabularies to describe different data artefacts of TERN and partnering institutes.
