This ontology aims to provide data model and vocabularies for describing the national curricula within the UK
Curriculum Ontology
METADATA-1664 Corrected FieldOfStudy label typo
Age or age range is a way to specify the stages of education.
Age
Exam board is the organization holds some exams.
ExamBoard
Fields of study refers to the disciplines of a curriculum, e.g. Science, Maths, Science, etc.
FieldOfStudy
Key Stage is a way to specify the stage of the state education system in England, Wales, Northern Ireland.
KeyStage
Examples of language are English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic.
Language
Levels refers to the stages of education. Typically, there are four different ways to specify the levels: age range, year, key stage and phase.
Level
Nation is the concept to describe the four parts of the UK, i.e. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Nation
Paper tier reflects the difficulty of a exam. It can be standard or higher.
PaperTier
This concept is borrowed from the controlled terms for describing phase of education, which are published by the data.gov.uk. The phases of education include Primary, Secondary and 16-Plus.
Phase
A programme of study is the combination of a nation, an educational level such as Key Stage 3 and the subject being studied, Science, Maths etc.
ProgrammeOfStudy
Topic can highlight the content of the learning resources in a way more specific than the Field of Study. For example, energy is a topic of physics.
Topic
Topic of study is topic within the context of a programme of study. It aims to provide a formal learning context to an asset or a collection of assets.
TopicOfStudy
A ordered list of topics of study
TopicOfStudyList
Year is a way to specify the stages of education.
Year
Link topic of study views to topics.
about
Link topic of study to a programme of study or an Exam Specification.
appropriateFor
The PID of the depiction (image).
depictionPID
Property for associating any concept with an examBoard, e.g. an asset is useful for preparing exams provided by an exam board.
examBoard
a short cut from a programme of study or a topic of study to the member of its topic of study list
includesTopicOfStudy
The property of an asset being in a specific language.
language
The lower bound of the age range of a educational level.
lowerAgeBoundary
Specify an asset could be useful for a certain nation
nation
Specify the difficulty level of an asset
paperTier
Link topics of study to BBC assets.
providesContextTo
The year when a curriculum concept is valid.
curriculumYear
Capture the hierarchy of fields of study.
subFieldOf
Capture the hierarchy of level.
subLevelOf
Capture the hierarchy of programmes of study.
subProgrammeOf
Capture the hierarchy of topics.
subTopicOf
Specify the level of a programme of study.
taughtAtLevel
Specify the field of a programme of study.
taughtInField
Specify the nation of a level.
taughtInNation
Link a topic of study or a programme of study to an ordered list of topics of study.
topics
The upper bound of the age range of a educational level.
upperAgeBoundary
An exam specification maintained by an exam board defines the content of an examination..
ExamSpecification
languageCode
The ISO 639 code of the language plus with the ISO 3166 code of the geographic region, for example, en-gb.
usedIn
The property of a language being used in a nation.
programmeOfStudy
Specify the programme of study for a concept, e.g. the programme of study that exam specification can assess.
Property for associating any concept with an exam specification, e.g. a list of sub-topics is curated for an exam specification.
examSpecification
The students at a certain level follow an exam specification.
followedAtLevel