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Comments on the paper Ceci n’est pas un hamburger

Posted on January 10, 2012 by David Shotton

Very VERY occasionally I read a paper that is so well written, and which addressed the points so accurately and so eloquently, that I rejoice.  The paper by Pettifer et al. entitled Ceci n’est pas un hamburger: modelling and representing … 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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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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Introducing the Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) Ontologies

Posted on October 14, 2010 by David Shotton

This blog post is to introduce the first four ontologies of SPAR, the Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies, an integrated ecosystem of generic ontologies shown diagrammatically in the ‘flower’ diagram below (Figure 1). The ontologies can be used either individually … Continue reading →

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