bibo:cites and dcterms:references

[Raf Guns]

Hi,

Apparently, bibo:cites does not have any superproperties. I would
suggest that it makes sense to state:
bibo:cites rdfs:subPropertyOf dcterms:references.
The latter property is supposed to point to: "A related resource that
is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described
resource." (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-
references)

If there are good reasons for not making this change that I'm missing,
then I suggest at least making bibo:cites a subproperty of
dcterms:relation.

Any thoughts/comments?

Thanks,
Raf

[Christopher Gutteridge]

For what it's worth, I see no way that would cause problems.

In the short term, there's no reason you can't just assert that in your
own data.

--
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[Christopher Gutteridge]

... sorry to reply to my own message, but there's a flip side question:

* What task or problem do you have that making this change would enable
or resolve?

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Raf Guns <raf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Apparently, bibo:cites does not have any superproperties. I would
> suggest that it makes sense to state:
> bibo:cites rdfs:subPropertyOf dcterms:references.

I agree, and thought we'd done that.

Bruce

[Raf Guns]

Hi Christopher,

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:01, Christopher Gutteridge
<c...@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> ... sorry to reply to my own message, but there's a flip side question:
>
> * What task or problem do you have that making this change would enable or
> resolve?

To be honest: currently none. It just seemed like a logical thing to
assert explicitly. Call it my sense of RDF aesthetics :-)

Slightly longer answer: I am interested in the possibilities of
Semantic Web/Linked Data for bibliometric citation analysis (e.g.,
automatically unifying records from different sources). Although I
don't have a very concrete use case (yet?), one can imagine situations
where one data set uses BIBO, another uses DC, and yet another uses a
home-grown one (like DBLP:
http://sw.deri.org/~aharth/2004/07/dblp/dblp.html#cite). So it seems
useful if there were some common ground between major ontologies here.

>> For what it's worth, I see no way that would cause problems.
>>
>> In the short term, there's no reason you can't just assert that in your
>> own data.

Sure, it's not a major problem.

Best,
Raf

[Raf Guns]

As far as I can see [1], this is currently not the case? Perhaps it
has been accidentally removed in an update or so?

Raf

[1] http://bibotools.googlecode.com/svn/bibo-ontology/trunk/doc/objectproperties/cites___-1357696894.html

[Frederick Giasson]

Hi,

> bibo:cites rdfs:subPropertyOf dcterms:references

Updated on the SVN in the Trunk (so, will be available in the next
release when dereferencing the URI).

Thanks,

Fred