Copyright © 2004-2007 by Sebastian Ryszard Kruk with contributions from (under the Corrib.org project):
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication and Informatics and Main Library Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
License. This copyright applies to the MarcOnt Ontology Specification
and accompanying documentation and does not apply to JeromeDL data formats,
ontology terms, or technology.
This visual layout and structure of the
specification was adapted from the FOAF
Vocabulary Specification by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller as well as SIOC Vocabulary Specification
by Uldis Bojars and John G. Breslin.
An alphabetical index of MarcOnt terms, by class (categories or types) and by property. All the terms are hyperlinked to their detailed description for quick reference.
Classes: | #Article | #Book | #Booklet | #Chapter | #Cluster | #Collection | #Conference | #Copyright | #Coverage | #DCMIType | #Faculty | #Inbook | #Incollection | #Inproceedings | #Institute | #Journal | #Lab | #Manual | #Mastersthesis | #Misc | #Month | #Organization | #Phdthesis | #Proceedings | #Project | #ReferableEntity | #Resource | #StructureElement | #TableOfContents | #Techreport | #University | #Unpublished | #hasMonth_Range | #hasType_Range |
Properties: | #hasAbstract | #hasAddress | #hasAffiliation | #hasAuthor | #hasBeginDate | #hasChapter | #hasContents | #hasContributor | #hasCopyright | #hasCoverage | #hasCreator | #hasCrossRef | #hasDCMIType | #hasDomain | #hasEdition | #hasEditor | #hasEndDate | #hasHumanCreator | #hasISBN | #hasISSN | #hasIdentifier | #hasJournal | #hasKeyword | #hasMonth | #hasNote | #hasNumber | #hasOrder | #hasOrganization | #hasOwner | #hasPages | #hasPublisher | #hasSchool | #hasSeries | #hasSource | #hasSponsor | #hasTagging | #hasTitle | #hasTopic | #hasURL | #hasVolume | #hasYear | #howPublished | #isPartOf |
The goal of MarcOnt bibliographic ontology is to provide a uniform bibliographic description format. It should capture concepts from existing formats such as Bibtex, Dublin Core, MARC21. As the process of development of such an ontology is complicated it should involve a community of domain experts sharing their knowlegde and experience, together building community ontology with tools such as MarcOnt Portal
The ontology It is to be used in Jerome Digital Library as a format capturing bibliographic descriptions of the resources. The ontology is also beeing used as a mediation format in MarcOnt Mediation Services. With use of MarcOnt ontology one can transform bibliographic descriptions of the resources between supported formats (Bibtex, Dublin Core, Marc21 - partial, MarcOnt).
We would like to invite domain experts to collaboratively develop MarcOnt ontology with tool such as MarcOnt Portal.
It is important to understand that the MarcOnt ontology as specified in this document is not a standard in the sense of ISO Standardisation, or that associated with W3C Process.
MarcOnt ontology depends heavily on W3C's standards work, specifically on XML, XML Namespaces, RDF, and OWL.
This specification contributes an ontology, "MarcOnt bibliorgaphic ontology", to the Semantic Web, specifying it using W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF) and OWL.
MarcOnt bibliographic ontology introduces the following classes and properties.
article - One of the types of resources
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Resource |
|---|---|
| in-domain-of: | marcont:hasJournal |
chapter - This class represents a chapter
| sub-class-of: | marcont:StructureElement |
|---|---|
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasChapter |
Cluster - Represent a concept of cluster - subunit of Institute
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Organization |
|---|
collection - Represents collection of resources.
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Resource |
|---|
Conference - One of the types of resources
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Resource |
|---|
Copyrights - This class represents the copyrights entity.
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasCopyright |
|---|---|
| in-domain-of: | marcont:hasOwner marcont:hasEndDate marcont:hasBeginDate |
coverage - This class represents the range of the "coverage" annotation property from dc.
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasCoverage |
|---|
DCMI type - Represents the list of Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) types that can be in range of sahType property.
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasDCMIType |
|---|
Faculty - Represents a concept of a faculty - subunit of university.
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Organization |
|---|
Incollection - One of the types of resources
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Resource |
|---|
Inproceedings - One of the types of resources
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Resource |
|---|
Institute - Represents the concept of Institute.
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Organization |
|---|
Journal - Represent the journal entity.
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Collection |
|---|---|
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasJournal |
| in-domain-of: | marcont:hasNumber |
Laboratory - Represents a concept ot Laboratory - subunit of cluster.
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Organization |
|---|
Mastersthesis - One of the types of resources
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Resource |
|---|
Description - This class represents the enumeration type encapsulating all the values appropriate for moths.
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasMonth |
|---|
Organization - Represent the concept of organization
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasAffiliation marcont:hasOrganization |
|---|
Proceedings - One of the types of resources
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Collection |
|---|
Project - Represents the concept of project.
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Organization |
|---|
referable entity - This class represents an entity that can be referrenced.
| sub-class-of: | marcont:StructureElement |
|---|---|
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasCrossRef |
Resource - Base class for all bibliographical resources.
Structure element - This class represents the structural element of a bibliographic resource.
table of contents - This class represents a table of contents
| sub-class-of: | marcont:StructureElement |
|---|---|
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasContents |
Techreport - One of the types of resources
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Resource |
|---|
University - This class represents the university concept
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Organization |
|---|---|
| in-range-of: | marcont:hasSchool |
Unpublished - One of the types of resources
| sub-class-of: | marcont:Resource |
|---|
has month range - This entity represents the enumeration describing accepted values of hasMonth property
- This is an enumeration type representing range of the hasType property.
has abstract - Abstract ot the resource.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | xsd:string |
has address - Usually the address of the publisher or other type of institution. For major publishing houses, van Leunen recommends omitting the information entirely. For small publishers, on the other hand, you can help the reader by giving the complete address.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | xsd:string |
has affiliation - Affiliation of a given person.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | foaf:Person |
| Range: | marcont:Organization |
has Author - This property allows to attach information about human author of the resource or the collection of resources.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| sub-property-of: | marcont:hasHumanCreator |
has begin date - Begin date of the copyright period.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Copyright |
| Range: | xsd:date |
has chapter - Describes chapters of the resource (book, article etc).
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:Chapter |
has table of contents - Used to identify table of contents (TOC)
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:TableOfContents |
has contributor - An entity responsible for making contributions to the content of the resource but not the author.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | foaf:Agent |
has copyright - This property attaches copyrights to a given resource.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:Copyright |
has coverage - The extent or scope of the content of the resource.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:Coverage |
has creator - Property used to describe the creator of the resource or the collection of resources.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Range: | foaf:Agent |
has cross reference - equivalent to bobtex:hasCrossRef property.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:ReferableEntity |
has DCMI type - Describes appropriate type for the resource according to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative dictionary of types.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:DCMIType |
has domain of interest - Describes the domain of interest appropriate for the resource.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | skos:Concept |
has edition - The edition of a book--for example, "Second". This should be an ordinal, and should have the first letter capitalized, as shown here; the standard styles convert to lower case when necessary.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | xsd:string |
has Editor - Defines the editor of a given resource or collection of resources.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| sub-property-of: | marcont:hasHumanCreator |
has end date - End date of copyright period.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Copyright |
| Range: | xsd:date |
has human creator - Property used to describe the creator of the resource or the collection of resources.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| sub-property-of: | marcont:hasCreator |
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | foaf:Person |
has ISBN - This property allows to assign an identifier in the form of ISBN
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| sub-property-of: | marcont:hasIdentifier |
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
has ISSN - Represents the ISSN number assigned to a given resource
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| sub-property-of: | marcont:hasIdentifier |
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
has identifier - This proprerty represents the identifier property.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | xsd:string |
has journal - A journal name. Abbreviations are provided for many journals; see the Local Guide
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Article |
| Range: | marcont:Journal |
has keyword - Keyword related to the resource.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | skos:Concept |
has label - The month in which the work was published or, for an unpublished work, in which it was written. You should use the standard three-letter abbreviation.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Range: | marcont:Month |
has note - Any additional information that can help the reader.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | xsd:string |
has number - The number of a journal, magazine, technical report, or of a work in a series. An issue of a journal or magazine is usually identified by its volume and number; the organization that issues a technical report usually gives it a number; and sometimes books are given numbers in a named series.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Journal |
| Range: | xsd:int |
has order - Refers to the order of resources in Jerome Digital Library. Each resource is given a number to allow control over thier order.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | xsd:int |
has organization - The organization that is involved in the event.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:Organization |
hasOwner - Represents the owner of the copyright.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Copyright |
| Range: | foaf:Agent |
has pages - Nu,ber of pages of the resource or chapter.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Range: | xsd:int |
has publisher - Describes publisher of a given resource.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | foaf:Agent |
has school - University where the work was created/published
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| sub-property-of: | marcont:hasOrganization |
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:University |
has series - The name of a series or set of books. When citing an entire book, the the title field gives its title and an optional series field gives the name of a series or multi-volume set in which the book is published.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
has source - Property equivalent to dc:source property.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | marcont:Resource |
has sponsor. - Sponsor of the Resource or the event.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | foaf:Agent |
has tagging - Tagging associated with the resource
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | ttm:Tagging |
has title - The work's title.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Range: | xsd:string |
has topic - Topic of the resource.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | skos:Concept |
has URL - URI of the DCMI type or the resource.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Range: | xsd:string |
has volume - The volume of a journal or multivolume book.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Range: | xsd:string |
has year - The year of publication or, for an unpublished work, the year it was written. Generally it should consist of four numerals, such as 1984.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | xsd:string |
how published - How something strange has been published. The first word should be capitalized.
| OWL Type: | DatatypeProperty |
|---|---|
| Domain: | marcont:Resource |
| Range: | xsd:string |
is part of - represents a is-part-of realation between elements that belong to a collection or between collections.
| OWL Type: | ObjectProperty |
|---|