id: serial
schema_generating: true
description: This class may rarely be instantiated except if use cases of a given
  knowledge graph support its utility.
display_name: serial
document_category: serial
weight: 20
fields:
- id: iri
  description: An IRI for an entity. This is determined by the id using expansion
    rules.
  display_name: iri
- id: description
  description: a human-readable description of an entity
  display_name: description
- id: source
  description: a lightweight analog to the association class 'has provider' slot,
    which is the string name, or the authoritative (i.e. database) namespace, designating
    the origin of the entity to which the slot belongs.
  display_name: source
- id: provided_by
  description: connects an association to the agent (person, organization or group)
    that provided it
  display_name: provided by
  cardinality: multi
- id: has_attribute
  description: connects any entity to an attribute
  display_name: has attribute
  cardinality: multi
- id: category
  display_name: named thing_category
  cardinality: multi
- id: license
  display_name: license
- id: rights
  display_name: rights
- id: format
  display_name: format
- id: creation_date
  description: date on which an entity was created. This can be applied to nodes or
    edges
  display_name: creation date
- id: authors
  description: connects an publication to the list of authors who contributed to the
    publication. This property should be a comma-delimited list of author names. It
    is recommended that an author's name be formatted as "surname, firstname initial.".   Note
    that this property is a node annotation expressing the citation list of authorship
    which might typically otherwise be more completely documented in biolink:PublicationToProviderAssociation
    defined edges which point to full details about an author and possibly, some qualifiers
    which clarify the specific status of a given author in the publication.
  display_name: authors
  cardinality: multi
- id: pages
  description: When a 2-tuple of page numbers are provided, they represent the start
    and end page of the publication within its parent publication context. For books,
    this may be set to the total number of pages of the book.
  display_name: publication_pages
  cardinality: multi
- id: summary
  description: executive  summary of a publication
  display_name: summary
- id: keywords
  description: keywords tagging a publication
  display_name: keywords
  cardinality: multi
- id: mesh_terms
  description: mesh terms tagging a publication
  display_name: mesh terms
  cardinality: multi
- id: xref
  description: Alternate CURIEs for a thing
  display_name: xref
  cardinality: multi
- id: name
  description: the 'title' of the publication is generally recorded in the 'name'
    property (inherited from NamedThing). The field name 'title' is now also tagged
    as an acceptable alias for the node property 'name' (just in case).
  display_name: publication_name
- id: iso_abbreviation
  description: Standard abbreviation for periodicals in the International Organization
    for Standardization (ISO) 4 system See https://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/.
    If the 'published in' property is set, then the iso abbreviation pertains to the
    broader publication context (the journal) within which the given publication node
    is embedded, not the publication itself.
  display_name: iso abbreviation
- id: volume
  description: volume of a book or music release in a collection/series or a published
    collection of journal issues in a serial publication
  display_name: volume
- id: issue
  description: issue of a newspaper, a scientific journal or magazine for reference
    purpose
  display_name: issue
- id: id
  description: Serials (journals) should have industry-standard identifier such as
    from ISSN.
  display_name: serial_id
- id: type
  description: Should generally be set to an ontology class defined term for 'serial'
    or 'journal'.
  display_name: serial_type
