Re: Family and Book ontologies

Robert Stevens at the University of Manchester (cc'd) has done a 
considerable amount of work mapping family relationships to RDF.  I 
would consult him.  David


On 30/11/2012 08:49, Silvio Peroni wrote:
> Dear Mohamed,
>
>> 1. I'm developing now an ontology in which I need to describe 
>> persons, family relationships and book/author information.
>> Is there a well known (consistent/mature/commonly used) ontologies or 
>> anybody knows or had used/tested/developed ontologies  about family 
>> or books.
>
> For books, probably you would like to look at the FRBR-aligned 
> Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO), available at:
>
> http://purl.org/spar/fabio
>
> I think you may also be interested in reading a descriptive ontology 
> article recently published in JWS [1] about the aforementioned ontology.
>
> I hope it might help.
>
> Have a nice day :-)
>
> S.
>
>
>
> [1] - Peroni, S., Shotton, D. (2012). FaBiO and CiTO: ontologies for 
> describing bibliographic resources and citations. In Journal of 
> Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 17 
> (December 2012): 33-43. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. DOI: 
> 10.1016/j.websem.2012.08.001
>
>
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