Tag Archives: spar

Describing open access

Posted on January 31, 2014 by David Shotton

To permit computer-readable descriptions to be made of the various types of open access publication discussed in the previous blog post, I have expanded PSO, the Publication Status Ontology, whose use is described in an earlier blog post here, by … Continue reading →

Posted in Ontologies, Open Access, Scholarly publishing, Semantic Publishing | Tagged ontologies, open access, PSO, publication status, semantic publishing, spar | 1 Comment

Extending CiTO to enable use of the Open Annotation Data Model to describe citations

Posted on July 3, 2013 by David Shotton

Characterizing CiTO properties – the CiTO Functions Ontology [This post was modified on 20 October 2017 by David Shotton, to reflect the change in CiTO, the Citation Typing Ontology, of the name of the class cito:CitationAct to the new name … Continue reading →

Posted in Linked data, Metadata, Ontologies, Semantic Publishing | Tagged citation, cito, CiTO Functions Ontology, linked data, machine-readable metadata, OADM, ontologies, Open Annotation Data Model, OWL2 punning, reification, semantic publishing, spar | 3 Comments

FRAPO, the Funding, Research Administration and Projects Ontology

Posted on June 27, 2013 by David Shotton

FRAPO, the Funding, Research Administration and Projects Ontology, is a CERIF-compliant ontology available from http://purl.org/cerif/frapo/ for describing administrative information relating to grant funding and research projects. It can be used for the characterization of grant applications, funding bodies, research projects, … Continue reading →

Posted in Linked data, Metadata, Ontologies, Semantic Publishing | Tagged administrative metadata, cerif, CRIS, fabio, FRAPO, linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, RDF, research metadata, SCORO, semantic publishing, spar | 2 Comments

SCoRF, the Scholarly Contributions Report Form

Posted on April 19, 2013 by David Shotton

SCoRF, the Scholarly Contributions Report Form, is a metadata entry tool, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet familiar to all researchers, that makes easy the tasks of entering details describing the contributions of scholars to research investigations and of … Continue reading →

Posted in Linked data, Metadata, Ontologies, Semantic Publishing | Tagged attribution, contribution, Excel, Journal articles, linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, roles, SCORF, SCORO, semantic publishing, spar, spreadsheet, tool | 4 Comments

SCoRO, the Scholarly Contributions and Roles Ontology

Posted on April 19, 2013 by David Shotton

SCoRO, the Scholarly Contributions and Roles Ontology, is a new CERIF-compliant ontology for use by authors, publishers and research administrators, for describe the contributions and roles of scholars, and the organizations of which they are members, with respect to projects, … Continue reading →

Posted in Linked data, Metadata, Ontologies, Semantic Publishing | Tagged atrtribution, contributions, Journal articles, linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, roles, SCORF, SCORO, semantic publishing, spar | 3 Comments

Libraries and linked data #5: Using the SPAR ontologies to publish bibliographic records

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

The SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies are a suite of complementary and orthogonal ontologies written in the latest version of the Web Ontology Language OWL 2 DL, that have been specially created to permit information relating to bibliographic entities … Continue reading →

Posted in Linked data, Metadata, Ontologies, Semantic Publishing | Tagged bibliographic records, biro, c4o, citation data, cito, DoCO, fabio, Journal articles, library catalogue, linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, PRO, PSO, PWO, RDF, semantic publishing, spar, standards | 5 Comments

Ten next steps for semantic authors and publishers

Posted on February 26, 2013 by David Shotton

Note added 30 May 2013 Additional information concerning the use of OAI-ORE to specify aggregations of research outputs into data packages and research objects has been added at the end of this blog post. – – – Journal publishing has … Continue reading →

Posted in Data publication, Metadata, Ontologies, Open Citations, Semantic Publishing | Tagged citation data, data citation, datacite, five stars, Journal articles, linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, open access, peer review, PensoftJournals, RDF, references, semantic publishing, spar, tool | 5 Comments

Mapping JATS to RDF

Posted on December 20, 2012 by David Shotton

JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, defines a vocabulary of XML elements and attributes used to describe the content and metadata of journal articles. In this post, I describe the mapping of JATS to RDF, so that publishers’ XML article … Continue reading →

Posted in Metadata, Semantic Publishing | Tagged Document markup, JATS, machine-readable metadata, NLM DTD, ontologies, RDF mapping, semantic publishing, spar, XML, xslt | 1 Comment

Open Citations and Semantic Publishing

Posted on June 18, 2012 by David Shotton

Given the renewed interest among publishers in the Open Citations Corpus, following the decisions by Nature Publishing Group, publisher of Nature, and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of Science, to open their citation data for … Continue reading →

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