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Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.


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Bibliographic Ontology Specification 1.0

Posted by: William Denton, 6 June 2008 6:42 am
Categories: Semantic Web

Version 1.0 of the Bibliographic Ontology Specification is out. There’s no explicit mention of FRBR in it, but it’s certainly FRBR-informed, as one can see by searching their mailing list archives.

“The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web…. This ontology can be used as a citation ontology, as a document classification ontology, or simply as a way to describe any kind of document in RDF. It has been inspired by many existing document description metadata formats, and can be used as a common ground for converting other bibliographic data sources.”

This will be a very useful thing to use with any FRBR/Semantic Web work. Congratulations to the people behind this.