Monthly Archives: June 2011

Pensoft Journals policy and author guidelines on data publication and citation

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

In a recent blog post, Heather Piwowar, in discussing the advantages of citing datasets in the reference list of the article, said “No journals have standardized on this approach so far”. However, Pensoft Journals, a publisher that specializes in publishing … Continue reading →

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How to cite data

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

As an approach towards developing best practice for data citation, I recently wrote a Data Citation Best Practice Discussion Document that is available on Google Docs, and that I have now slightly revised to Version 2 [1]. In that document, … Continue reading →

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Questions of granularity – Dryad's use of DataCite DOIs for data citation, and the Annotation Ontology

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

DataCite is an international organisation, founded in 2009, which promotes the use of DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) for published datasets, in order to establish easier access to research data, to increase acceptance of research data as legitimate contributions in the … Continue reading →

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Using FaBiO to describe data entities

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

In addition to using CiTO and CiTO4Data to describe relationships of relevance to data entities, as discussed in the previous blog post, FaBiO, the FRBR aligned Bibliographic Ontology described elsewhere, another member of the suite of SPAR (Semantic Publishing and … Continue reading →

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CiTO4Data – a new data-centric citation typing ontology

Posted on June 30, 2011 by David Shotton

NOTE: In the summer of 2012, we decided for simplicity to include the two new properties discussed below within CiTO itself (as cito:compiles and cito:isCompiledBy), and to deprecate the CiTO4Data ontology. – – – This is the first of a … 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

Note added 15 May 2013 A new ontology, the CiTO Functions Ontology (http://www.essepuntato.it/2013/03/cito-functions), provides a formal classification for the citation types present in CiTO. It classifies CiTO properties (each defining a particular type of citation act) according to their factual … Continue reading →

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