Category Archives: Metadata

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Libraries and linked data #4: A Comparison of RDF and XML

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

(Note: Understanding of this paper will be enhanced by prior reading of the earlier papers in this series: Libraries and linked data #1:  What are linked data? Libraries and linked data #2:  A rough guide to Turtle. Libraries and linked … Continue reading →

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Libraries and linked data #3: Encoding bibliographic records in RDF

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

Bibliographic index card records Although the majority of library catalogues are now digitized, under the hood most continue to use an index card paradigm similar to the one shown below for my CiTO paper [1], which uses PubMed tag-value pairs … Continue reading →

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Libraries and linked data #1: What are linked data?

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

[Note: An introduction to this and the following five blog posts, all under the general title Libraries and linked data, is given in the previous post.] Linked data and RDF ‘Linked data’ are data encoded and published on the Web … Continue reading →

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