SPAR Ontologies

The Five Stars of Online Research Articles Ontology is an ontology written in OWL 2 DL to enable characterization of the five attributes of an online journal article - peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata.

SCoRO is written in OWL 2 DL, and imports FOAF, the Friend of a Friend Ontology (http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/) and PRO the Publishing Roles Ontology (http://purl.org/spar/pro/). This ontology is available at http://purl.org/spar/scoro/, and uses the namespace prefix 'scoro'.

The Publishing Workflow Ontology (PWO) is an ontology for describing the workflow associated with the publication of a document. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.

PRO, the Publishing Roles Ontology, is an ontology written in OWL 2 DL for the characterization of the roles of agents (people, corporate bodies and computational agents) in the publication process. It permits one to specify how an agent has a role relating to a contextual entity, and the period of time during which that role is held.

PSO, the Publishing Status Ontology, is an ontology for describing the status held by a bibliographic document or other publication entity at each of the various stages in the publishing process. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies. Other SPAR ontologies are described at http://purl.org/spar/.

The Citation Counting and Context Characterization Ontology (C4O) is an ontology for characterizing the number and contexts of bibliographic citations. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.

BiRO, the Bibliographic Reference Ontology, is an ontology structured according to the FRBR model to define bibliographic records (as subclasses of frbr:Work) and bibliographic references (as subclasses of frbr:Expression), and their compilations into bibliographic collections such as library catalogues, and into bibliographic lists such as refe…

DoCO, the Document Components Ontology, is an ontology for describing the component parts of a bibliographic document. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies. Other SPAR ontologies are described at http://purl.org/spar/.

CiTO, the Citation Typing Ontology, is an ontology for the characterization of citations, both factually and rhetorically. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.

FaBiO, the FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology, is an ontology for recording and publishing on the Semantic Web descriptions of entities that are published or potentially publishable, and that contain or are referred to by bibliographic references, or entities used to define such bibliographic references.