Ontologies

[Robert Sanderson]

Dear list,

I'm looking for an ontology that describes our favourite example... scholarly communication.  However it must be able to say that a Journal has a collection of Issues which have collections of Articles, in order to create an Aggregation at each level.

Other than the Mesur ontology (http://www.mesur.org/schemas/2007-01/mesur/) I can't find any that model Issue as a class.  While I'm fine with using it, it seems a little incestuous!  If there are any others out in sem-web wilderspace, please let me know.

Many thanks!
Rob

[Pete Johnston]

Hi Rob,

FRBR? http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/

See especially the discussion of whole-part relationships throughout
section 5.3

For FRBR in RDFS/OWL, AFAIK, the most complete version is the work done
by Ian Davis and Richard Newman

http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#
http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/extended#

Though I appreciate it may be more complex than you want.....

Pete
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[Robert Sanderson]

Hi Pete,

The FRBR ontology doesn't explicitly say that an object is a journal/issue/volume/article/book review/whatever, which is what I'm looking for.

I'll keep it in mind though!

Rob

[Yves Raimond]

Hello!

> The FRBR ontology doesn't explicitly say that an object is a
> journal/issue/volume/article/book review/whatever, which is what I'm looking
> for.

Perhaps BIBO, available at: http://bibliontology.com/ would be a better fit?

Best,
yves

[Mark Diggory]

Sounds more like SWAP represented in RDF to me. There is a Type
Vocabulary.

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/
Eprints_Type_Vocabulary_Encoding_Scheme

-Mark

[Mark Diggory]

On that note, is there any forum for working on unifying these
bibliographic/frbr ontologies for RDF, seems like disparate movements
going on in an area that could really stand to have a common space
for working out the kinks in. I imagine something like the LOD Cloud
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Linking-Open-Data-diagram_2007-09.png)
for Bibliographic/FRBR/ORE ontology's... Specifically targeting
recommendations and best practices on how this stuff is worked with
or enmeshed into the SW/LOD realm.

-Mark

[Robert Sanderson]

Right. I've looked at bibo, swap, swetodblp, the bibtex one and a few others.  The main issue I've been having though is that none of them represent issues as objects.  The class which a journal is a collection of is always articles.

However ... Success!
  http://www.holygoat.co.uk/owl/2004/06/bib/bib.rdf

A second vocabulary that models the journal/issue/article hierarchy :)

Rob

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Mark Diggory <mdig...@mit.edu> wrote:

Sounds more like SWAP represented in RDF to me. There is a Type
Vocabulary.

[Yves Raimond]

Just forwarding to the BIBO mailing list, as it does appear to be a
nice place for this sort of discussions :-)

> Right. I've looked at bibo, swap, swetodblp, the bibtex one and a few
> others. The main issue I've been having though is that none of them
> represent issues as objects. The class which a journal is a collection of
> is always articles.
>
> However ... Success!
> http://www.holygoat.co.uk/owl/2004/06/bib/bib.rdf

I do use this ontology to keep track of my bibliography, and I've been
quite happy with it so far (mainly due to the fact that it is
extremely straight-fw to map bibtex to it:-) ).

Best,
y