Bibliographic Ontology Specification 1.0
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.
Thanks!
Yes, re: the (implicit) FRBR connections, the general idea is that this ontology deals with the manifestation level, and that one could integrate these descriptions into the FRBR hierarchy. But we haven’t been entirely explicit about that because of some ambiguity about whether we’re always dealing with manifestations, or whether there is some expression level stuff as well. We figured it better to get a workable spec out there and have people work with it, and then worry about tightening it up later if necessary based on that experience.
Comment by Bruce D'Arcus — 6 June 2008 @ 10:13 am