Tag Archives: PSO

Describing open access

Posted on January 31, 2014 by

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 →

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Libraries and linked data #5: Using the SPAR ontologies to publish bibliographic records

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

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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BIBO2SPAR, an RDF Mapping of BIBO to the SPAR Ontologies

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

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

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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New web site for the SPAR ontologies

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

The last four SPAR ontologies – the Document Components Ontology DoCO, the Publishing Roles Ontology PRO, the Publishing Status  Ontology PSO and the Publishing Workflow Ontology PWO – were recently completed.  All eight SPAR ontologies have now been thoroughly revised … Continue reading →

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