About the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) Specification, Version 1.3
A Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) is a unique, persistent twelve-character string that serves to identify financial instruments. Along with the identifier, a number of related data points are identified and defined so as to provide clear context and differentiation of the financial instruments specified by the identifiers. The machine consumable OWL ontology associated with FIGI defines all of the classes that constitute an identifier as well as the relationships between those classes so as to provide a comprehensive semantic model for Financial Instrument Global Identifiers. This ontology provides an informative 'make file' to allow FIGI users to load the normative FIGI 1.3 ontology into an application, tool or knowledge graph. Primary changes to this version of the FIGI ontologies include (1) clarifying definitions, and (2) eliminating the pricing sources and security types controlled vocabularies which are constantly evolving, and whose content is available from OpenFIGI.com.
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Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) Specification, Version 1.3
Revisions to the FIGI specification are managed per the process outlined in the Policies and Procedures for OMG standards, with the intent to maintain backwards compatibility in the ontologies to the degree possible. The RDF/XML serialized OWL ontologies have been checked for syntactic errors and logical consistency with Protege 5.6 (http://protege.stanford.edu/) and HermiT reasoner (http://www.hermitreasoner.com/).
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Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) Specification Version 1.3
individual representing metadata about the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) Version 1.3 Specification
Revisions to the FIGI specification are managed per the process outlined in the Policies and Procedures for OMG standards, with the intent to maintain backwards compatibility in the ontologies to the degree possible. The RDF/XML serialized OWL for the FIGI ontologies have been checked for syntactic errors and logical consistency with Protege 5.6 (https://protege.stanford.edu/) and the HermiT (http://www.hermit-reasoner.com/) reasoner for OWL 2. Note that the Pellet 2.2 reasoner is not able to process the regex string pattern in the data restriction for Protege users who also use Pellet. Users who wish to use Pellet due to other advantages should comment out the restriction on the hasUniqueTextIdentifier property in the definition of FinancialInstrumentIdentifier.