Tag Archives: ontologies

Nomenclature for data publications and citations

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

The meaning of the word “dataset” is ambiguous, changing with context.  In FaBiO , the FRBR-aligned bibliographic ontology, we define “dataset” at the conceptual level (i.e. as a frbr:Work) thus: fabio:Dataset: “A collection of related facts, often expressed in numerical … Continue reading →

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DataCite2RDF – Mapping DataCite Metadata Scheme Terms to ontologies

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

The DataCite Metadata Kernel version 2.0 [1] specifies the minimal metadata, and optional metadata, that should accompany a DataCite DOI for the identification of a published data entity. Within the Metadata Kernel document there is an XML mapping of these … Continue reading →

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CiTO4Data – a new data-centric citation typing ontology

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

This is the first of a series of blog posts on the Open Citations blog that address the problem of citing data entities, for example a data package in a data repository, rather than bibliographic entities such as journal articles. … Continue reading →

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BIBO2SPAR, an RDF Mapping of BIBO to the SPAR Ontologies

Posted on June 29, 2011 by David Shotton

In the previous blog post, I made a textual comparison between BIBO v1.3, the Bibliographic Ontology developed by Bruce D’Arcus and Frédérick Giasson, and FaBiO, the FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology. In this post, I wish to introduce our RDF mapping of … Continue reading →

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Comparison of BIBO and FaBiO

Posted on June 29, 2011 by David Shotton

BIBO v1.3, the Bibliographic Ontology developed by Bruce D’Arcus and Frédérick Giasson [1], was the first OWL ontology dedicated to describing bibliographic entities, and has attracted a wide group of users. It provided the much-needed ability to describe the nature … Continue reading →

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Categorising bibliographic resources with FaBiO and SKOS

Posted on June 29, 2011 by David Shotton

One of the most important need for a publisher is to categorising each bibliographic entity it produces by adding free-text keywords and/or specific terms structured according to recognised classification systems and/or thesauri specific for certain academic disciplines. Academics have the … Continue reading →

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Extending FRBR within FaBiO

Posted on June 29, 2011 by David Shotton

FRBR, the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records [1] is a general model, proposed by the International Federation of Library Association (IFLA), for describing bibliographic documents. It works for both physical and digital resources and has proved to be very flexible … Continue reading →

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Functional clustering of CiTO properties

Posted on June 29, 2011 by David Shotton

CiTO v2.0 contains just two main object properties, cito:cites and its inverse cito:isCitedBy, each of which as thirty-two sub-properties. Intentionally, these properties are not constrained as to domain or range, thereby maximising their applicability in a wide range of citation … Continue reading →

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Advantages of Ontological Standards in Scholarly Publishing

Posted on June 29, 2011 by David Shotton

Scholarly authoring and publishing is in the throes of a revolution, as the full potential of on-line publishing is explored. Semantic publishing is one aspect of this, namely the use of web and semantic web technologies to enhance a published … Continue reading →

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Graffoo, a Graphical Framework for OWL Ontologies

Posted on June 29, 2011 by David Shotton

Graffoo, a Graphical Framework for OWL Ontologies [1], is a wonderful new open source tool developed by Silvio Peroni that can be used to present the classes, properties and restrictions within OWL ontologies, or sub-sections of them, as clear and … Continue reading →

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