Tag Archives: RDF

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 →

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Mapping DataCite 3.1: updated ontology and mapping document

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Silvio Peroni

It is not the first time we introduce our work on mapping DataCite to RDF – as already discussed in a previous post on this blog. Some news on this front: recently, David Shotton, Jan Ashton, Amy Barton, Egbert Gramsbergen, … 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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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 #2: A rough guide to Turtle

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

The purpose of this post is to provide a simple guide to help the uninitiated understand RDF documents written in Turtle. [Note 1: An introduction to the purpose of RDF in creating linked data has already been given the previous … 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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Linked Data 101

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

During a discussion with librarians towards the end of last year, I was asked why they should bother to publish their catalogues as open linked data, and how that might be done. For those of us already part of the … Continue reading →

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