About vocabulary

The Behaverse Vocabulary is a cross-cutting SKOS-style controlled terminology for Behaverse data. It collects the terms that no single schema owns — general terms, demographics, and the naming conventions (suffixes) used across variable names in the Behaverse Data Model (BDM).

Motivation

Many terms recur across the BDM: a *_mean aggregation, an age demographic, a *_id foreign-key suffix. Defining these once, in a shared vocabulary, keeps variable naming consistent across schemas and datasets. Terms that a specific schema owns (e.g. the trial table fields) live in that schema instead.

Structure

The vocabulary is organised as SKOS concept schemes (categories), each grouping a set of concepts (terms):

• General and Demographics — common measures and participant attributes.
• Generic / Aggregation / Transformation / Referencing Suffixes — the conventions for building variable names (e.g. age_mean, age_log, participant_id).

The Overview page lists every public scheme with its concepts, definitions, and (where applicable) data type.

Namespace & source

• Namespace: https://behaverse.org/schemas/vocabulary
• Source of truth: terms.yaml (hand-maintained, SKOS-style schemes + concepts). A SKOS terms.jsonld is generated from it.

Status

Some internal schemes and concepts are kept in the source for reference but are excluded from this public glossary.