Author Archives: David Shotton

The use of Named Graphs to enable ontology evolution

Posted on October 25, 2017 by David Shotton

This is a re-publication of a Position Paper given at the W3C Workshop on the Semantic Web for Life Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 27-28 October 2004, since the original is not presently available on the Web, and the paper contains some … Continue reading →

Posted in Ontologies, Semantic Publishing | Tagged named graphs, ontologies, ontology evolution, RDF, semantic publishing | Leave a comment

Open Article Gauge

Posted on February 7, 2014 by David Shotton

Further to the previous post describing various types of open and closed access, I would like to bring people’s attention to a very useful service developed by Cottage Labs a year or so ago that automatically reports the degree of … Continue reading →

Posted in Metadata, Open Access, Scholarly publishing | Tagged Journal articles, machine-readable metadata, open access, tool | Leave a comment

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

Open access journals – wheat, chaff and hopeful monsters

Posted on January 24, 2014 by David Shotton

The Fifth Annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, organized by OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association [1], was held in Riga, the capital of Latvia, on 18th-20th September 2013. I was invited to attend to discuss the Open … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Access, Scholarly publishing | Tagged Journal articles, open access, peer review, PensoftJournals | 3 Comments

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 #6: Why publish library catalogues as open linked data?

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

This is the sixth and final paper introducing the concepts of RDF and linked data, and explaining how these Semantic Web technologies can be used to publish library catalogue data. The previous papers in this series, which serve as technical … Continue reading →

Posted in Linked data, Metadata, Ontologies, Semantic Publishing | Tagged bibliographic records, citation data, Journal articles, library catalogue, linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, RDF, semantic publishing, standards | 4 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