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7 February 2006

RDF schema for citations

Filed under: Semantic Web — William Denton @ 7:54 am

Bruce D’Arcus posted A Model for Citation Metadata last week: “I’ve been saying for awhile we need a solid and widely accessible bibliograpic data model for citations, and finally just decided to write one myself.”

You can read what he’s got so far on Sourceforge: Citation Oriented Bibliographic Vocabulary. You’ll notice a number of mentions of FRBR and a frbr namespace, for example the statement that biblio:person is equivalent to frbr:person. D’Arcus says:

One of the nice things about OWL is that not only can I define classes and subclasses, and then annotate them with text, but I can also make statements about how my classes relate to other classes. For people in the library world, the interesting equivalences I’ve drawn here are to the new FRBR RDF vocabulary. I have made the primary biblio:Reference class a subclass of frbr:Manifestation. This would allow descriptions encoded in my more grounded vocabulary to be placed in the context of a wider and more general FRBR view as needed.