Re: article versions with JSON-LD

The question of versioning publications in JSON-LD is equivalent to that for versioning RDF in general. There are a couple of different vocabularies that might be useful for this:

PROV - http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ This is the vocabulary used for the general RDF Provenance model which includes mechanism to describe versions (revisions) and related information in something similar to the Git branching model.

Bibo - http://bibliontology.com. The Bibo vocabulary is generally used for describing bibliographic sources and references, including concepts such as bibo:isVersionOf .

You might also model different versions using schema.org/PublicationEvent. CreativeWork -> releasedEvent -> PublicationEvent.

There’s also a Quora question on this: https://www.quora.com/Resource-Description-Framework/What-is-the-best-practice-for-versioning-RDF-information.
 
Gregg Kellogg
gregg@greggkellogg.net

> On Oct 19, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> A scientific article is typically published in several revisions,
> e.g., a bunch of revisions on a preprint server like arXiv [1] plus
> possibly a version somewhere on a publisher's website [2]. The
> versions will generally be perceived as "the same article", but differ
> a little bit here and there. I'd hesitate to refer to them as the same
> document.
> 
> Is it possible to express this kind of relationship in JSON-LD? What
> would you recommend?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nico
> 
> 
> [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2785
> [2] http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.012505
> 

Received on Monday, 19 October 2015 18:26:31 UTC