Validation

A description of the types/properties relevant to a validation.json.

Orcfax utilizes the following Schema.org types and properties in its Validation records. The description provided by Schema.org follows each; if Orcfax maintains a more nuanced understanding, an additional definition will be provided. If the term appears in its own definition, it will be replaced when possible with a [synonym] in order to aid understanding.

Schema.org Types

Type	Schema.org description	Orcfax description
`CreativeWork`	The most generic kind of creative work, including books, movies, photographs, software programs, etc.	A generic term to encompass a broad spectrum of creative works, including text, images, software programs, their outputs, etc.
`Event`	An [entity] such as a school, NGO, corporation, club, etc.
`MediaObject`	An object such as an image, video, audio, or text object embedded in a web page or a downloadable dataset.
`Observation`	Used to specify observations about an entity at a particular time	Information pertaining to a subject resulting from monitoring.
`Organization`	An [entity] such as a school, NGO, corporation, club, etc.
`PostalAddress`	The price asked for a given offer by the respective organization or person.
`PropertyValue`	Used to represent a feature of a product or place.
`StatisticalVariable`	represents any type of statistical metric that can be measured at a place and time.
`TextObject`	A text file. The text can be unformatted or contain markup, html, etc.

Schema.org Properties

Property	Type	Schema.org description	Orcfax definition
`about`	Event	The subject matter of the content.
`additionalType`	MediaObject	Used to add more specific types from external vocabularies when a schema.org equivalent is not available.
`address`	Organization	Physical address of the item.	The physical address of the entity which has executed the validation process.
`addressLocality`	PostalAddress	The locality in which the street address is, and which is in the region.
`addressRegion`	PostalAddress	The region in which the locality is, and which is in the country.
`comment`	TextObject	Comments, typically from users.	Used to give users additional context regarding the record.
`contributor`	MediaObject	A secondary contributor to the `CreativeWork` or `Event`.	The entity which has executed the validation process.
`description`	CreativeWork, Event	A description of the item.
`geo`	PostalAddress	The geo coordinates of the place.	The geographical coordinates of the place where the validation process was executed.
`hasPart`	CreativeWork	Indicates an item or `CreativeWork` that is part of this item, or CreativeWork.
`identifier`	MediaObject	Used to represent any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc.
`isBasedOn`	MediaObject	A resource from which this work is derived or from which it is a modification or adaptation.
`locationCreated`	Organization	The location where the `CreativeWork` was created.
`measurementMethod`	Observation, StatisticalVariable	A subproperty of `measurementTechnique` that can be used for specifying specific methods.
`measurementTechnique`	StatisticalVariable	A technique, method or technology used in an `Observation`, `StatisticalVariable` or `Dataset`, corresponding to the method used for measuring the corresponding variable(s).
`name`	MediaObject, Organization, PropertyValue	The name of the item.
`recordedIn`	Event	The `CreativeWork` that captured all or part of this `Event`.
`sha256`	TextObject	The SHA-2 SHA256 hash of the content of the item
`startDate`	Event	The start date and time of the item.
`text`	CreativeWork	The textual content of this `CreativeWork`.
`value`	Observation, PropertyValue	The value of a `QuantitativeValue` (including `Observation`) or property value.
`valueReference`	Observation	A secondary value that provides additional information on the original `value`.
`variableMeasured`	StatisticalVariable	The variable(s) measured in some dataset, either described as text or more explicitly as a `StatisticalVariable`.

Validation example

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "type": "MediaObject",
  "identifier": "urn:orcfax:11ceadf4-69d6-4b96-9401-c0a1e7e5d3eb",
  "isBasedOn": {
    "@type": "MediaObject",
    "name": "the raw information sent to an Orcfax validator by an Orcfax node",
    "identifier": "urn:orcfax:node:2a531a7e-4961-4895-985d-1fa9aaaf50a2"
  },
  "contributor": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLC",
    "locationCreated": {
      "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "addressLocality": "London",
        "addressRegion": "England, GB,",
        "geo": "51.5085,-0.1257"
      }
    }
  },
  "additionalType": [
    {
      "@type": "Event",
      "description": "successful content signature generation for Orcfax node data",
      "startDate": "2024-08-28T16:20:35Z",
      "recordedIn": {
        "@type": "CreativeWork",
        "description": {
          "@type": "TextObject",
          "comment": "an Orcfax content signature is a sha256 digest of a node's 'collected timestamp', 'data-points' in-order and the 'node identifier' (uuid)",
          "sha256": "33ac6c61317e8909871a759e025c82f8155a1739d7e4128f9231e527e1584572"
        },
        "hasPart": [
          {
            "@type": "CreativeWork",
            "description": "collecting timestamp",
            "text": "2024-08-28T16:20:26Z"
          },
          {
            "@type": "CreativeWork",
            "description": "data points for ADA-USD",
            "text": [
              "0.34541",
              "0.3423",
              "0.342465",
              "0.3420342",
              "0.34335"
            ]
          },
          {
            "@type": "CreativeWork",
            "description": "node identifier (uuid)",
            "text": "2a531a7e-4961-4895-985d-1fa9aaaf50a2"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Event",
      "description": "selection of median value from collected node data",
      "startDate": "2024-08-28T16:20:35Z",
      "about": {
        "@type": "StatisticalVariable",
        "measurementMethod": "median calculation of a minimum of three data sources from the selected collector node",
        "measurementTechnique": [
          {
            "@type": "PropertyValue",
            "name": "SoftwareApplication",
            "value": "Python 3.11.6 (main, Apr 10 2024, 17:26:07) [GCC 13.2.0] on Linux-6.5.0-44-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.38"
          },
          {
            "@type": "PropertyValue",
            "name": "SoftwarePackage",
            "value": "statistics"
          }
        ],
        "variableMeasured": {
          "@type": "Observation",
          "measurementMethod": "median value",
          "value": 0.342465,
          "valueReference": [
            "0.34541",
            "0.3423",
            "0.342465",
            "0.3420342",
            "0.34335"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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